My meaty urologist needs a kick to the groin.

[der_kluge]

Glad to know that Richmond isn't alone in the retarded weathermen category.

Maybe Kansas City is unique. We had a weatherman there named Gary Lezak. My wife and I called him the weather geek. I mean, this guy is to weather as Crothian is to D&D. He was SPOT on all the time on the weather. He'd pour over various models, and then take bits of each, and be right on. He was incredible. He had a daily 4 degree guarantee, and I can't recall him ever being outside of his guarantee range. Amazing.

So, good weathermen do exist. Just not on the east coast apparently. Maybe the weather is harder to predict here? Because certainly there are no oceans in the midwest to affect the weather patterns as much. That might have something to do with it.

Last weekend, it was supposed to lightly snow in the mornings on both Sunday and Saturday, and did neither. And snow that was supposed to pass "just north of us" ended up dumping an inch in an all-day blizzard. In fact, I can't count the number of times that they've said "this storm will pass just north of us", and then we get hit by it, hard. Idiots.

 

[Jamdin]

Everbody else must have washed their car on Sunday. It never fails to bring rain

 

[GlassJaw]

People in the northeast are OBSESSED with the weather. I would say 75% of conversations usually start or contain some comment about the weather. If someone even mentions snow, it's like declaring anarchy. People go nuts.

 

[francisca]

"..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..."

Return of the Night of the Living Dead Greyhawk Random Weather Generation Tables.

Film at 11.

 

[Rel]

Film at 11.

Speaking of which, it is EXTRA irritating that they wait until the VERY end of the news to give you the weather forecast. They know that the rest of the crap they're reporting on is just so much filler because they've got you by the weather balloons, gripping their viewers to the TV when we just want to try and figure out what we're going to wear and do tomorrow.

Bastards!

 

[Henry]

Weather Channel, "weather on the 8's" - It's not any more accurate, but at least you don't have to wait for your incorrect data.

One other thing I use is weather.com's weather TSR download called Desktop Weather. It's got the same data at one click instead of having to load a web page, and it's not as invasive as Weatherbug of some of these weather programs that could pass for spyware.

 

[der_kluge]

Weatherbug is nice, too. Puts the current temperate on the little icon bar in the lower right corner of your desktop. I've never really monitored it's forecasts for accuracy, though.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

Maybe Kansas City is unique. We had a weatherman there named Gary Lezak. My wife and I called him the weather geek. I mean, this guy is to weather as Crothian is to D&D. He was SPOT on all the time on the weather. He'd pour over various models, and then take bits of each, and be right on. He was incredible. He had a daily 4 degree guarantee, and I can't recall him ever being outside of his guarantee range. Amazing.

So, good weathermen do exist. Just not on the east coast apparently. Maybe the weather is harder to predict here? Because certainly there are no oceans in the midwest to affect the weather patterns as much. That might have something to do with it.

According to my parents there is one of these in New Hampshire. On a seriously low budget station is a weatherman named Al Capreillian. He is a short little dorky looking guy with very poor enunciation. He gets all excited about the weather to the point where he squeaks and squeals while delivering his reports. I cannot stand to listen to him, but my parents say he is the most accurate weatherman they have ever seen.

 

[fett527]

I find weather.com is quite accurate in their forcasts. SW Ohio is pretty unpreditcable too.

Meaty urologist. Hee-hee.

 

[Desdichado]

Meaty urologist. Hee-hee.

We have a urologist in our gaming group, oddly enough. He's not very meaty, though -- he's even relatively thin, especially for a gamer.

I don't suppose he knows anything more about the weather than I do, though.