My meaty urologist needs a kick to the groin.

[Rel]

Stupid weather man!

Is it me or is there any other profession out there that gets to be as wrong as often as meteorolgists and still keep their jobs? Here's the reason for my rant:

I needed to fix the roof of my shed. I had to peel off almost half the roof, replace the underlying OSB, put on new tarpaper and re-shingle it. So, I check the weather.

The weatherman tells me that it will be nice on Sunday, increasingly cloudy on Monday with a good chance of heavy rains by Tuesday. So, on Sunday morning, I went to work on the roof of the shed.

By sundown I'd replaced the roof boards, done the tarpaper and a couple courses of shingles but I was utterly exhausted. So, I packed it up for the day and resolved to finish things on Monday morning. Well it rained like a bastard on Sunday night!

Then, yesterday morning when it was cold and drizzly, I got my aching back up on top of the shed and hurriedly finished it before things turned worse. By yesterday afternoon, things continued to clear up and right now it is sunny with literally not a cloud in the sky!

So then why the **** did the weatherman show me that little cloud with the raindrops coming out of it for Tuesday's forecast?! Why wasn't he showing that for Sunday night?!

The weather is such a crapshoot that they need to just start saying, "We have no goddam idea what is gonna happen. Being March it'll probably be kinda windy and cool but who the hell really knows?!"

Bastards.

*Rel takes more Advil and fetches the heating pad for his back.*

 

[francisca]

hope this helps....

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

My favorite weather story is when I was visiting a friend in New Mexico years ago. The weather was reporting a warm day with a 10% chance of rain. We decided to go do some sightseeing and headed out. Not 20 minutes from the house the car is getting pummelled with hail about 1" in diameter. We turn back for home, get the car in the garage and wait out the storm - that lasts three hours and causes flash floods in town.

Playing cards while waiting out the storm we hear the radio weather. "Tomorrow, 10% chance of precipitation...but that is what we said for today..."

 

[Desdichado]

Just based on the title, I figured you'd gone to have your prostate checked and the doctor had bigger hands than you'd have liked.

Our weather has actually improved quite a bit over what was predicted. Of course, it seems like the meteorologists here like to keep expectations low so people are happier about what weather actually does rather than the opposite.

 

[francisca]

Just based on the title, I figured you'd gone to have your prostate checked and the doctor had bigger hands than you'd have liked.

And you still looked?

 

[BSF]

My favorite weather story is when I was visiting a friend in New Mexico years ago. The weather was reporting a warm day with a 10% chance of rain. We decided to go do some sightseeing and headed out. Not 20 minutes from the house the car is getting pummelled with hail about 1" in diameter. We turn back for home, get the car in the garage and wait out the storm - that lasts three hours and causes flash floods in town.

Playing cards while waiting out the storm we hear the radio weather. "Tomorrow, 10% chance of precipitation...but that is what we said for today..."

Happens all the time out here. Our weather is wacky. Like right now most of Albuquerque has 5+ inches of snow. Sunday it was pretty close to the 70's.

I have literally driven across town moving through one rainstorm, into a dry area that has no precipitation and into a new rainstorm. Mind you the entire journey was 2-3 miles total.

Rel, next time check www.wunderground.com. They seem slightly more likely to be correct than most other sources I have seen.

 

[Desdichado]

And you still looked?

I figgered there must be an amusing point to such a wacky title...

 

[Henry]

I don't bother looking at the weather report, but I look at the satellite photos. If there's a large bank of precipitation or cloud cover over Georgia (that'd be Tennesee/North Georgia for you) then I don't plan anything for the next day that involves clear weather.

Past that, I use combinations of prayer, blind guessing, and have friends work Wiccan Spells to get my desired result (pays to cover all bases).

 

[Rel]

Past that, I use combinations of prayer, blind guessing, and have friends work Wiccan Spells to get my desired result (pays to cover all bases).

The problem is that this is the same method the weather men are using.

 

[Henry]

"..and now, your up-to-the-minute forecast with meteorologist Bob van Peasemont..."

*camera cuts to Bob, rolling percentile dice and scribbing on a pad*

"Bob will be finished with his forecast in a moment, we'll return to Bob after these brief messages..."