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25% right 50% of the time??

Saturday evening, we had a 30% chance of scattered showers predicted for today.

Monday night, it was up to 100% chance for Tuesday (today).

This morning, it was 100% with 1/4 to 1/2" of rain this afternoon and another 1/4" to 1/2" this evening........ ending by 1 am.

Right now, at 12:30 am, I have 2 1/2" in the rain gauge, and the radar is looking like it'll be 6 am before it's over.

I realize we are dealing with nature and things change quickly, but my goodness........ maybe we need to put some windows in the National Weather Service office and start teaching the weather guessers some of Grandma and Grandmas weather signs.

The worst part is, I keep listening to them like they know what they are talking about.......

Thanks for letting me vent, I'm just waiting for it to ease up enough I can unload some feed into the hog feeders so they don't start eating each other by morning.

Tim

I sure miss Harold Taft. We called him Gods weatherman here in Texas. If he said it was going to snow on July 4th it snowed.

The big problem is the weather guessers are now computers and the folks who deliver it just talking heads. Even the military has had problems with this and flight ops to the point a few years ago they called some of em back in from retirement.

Rick

Weather forecasting hasn't been the same since Sonny Elliot retired in Detroit. I heard that Jerry Hodak is still doing it.

Sometimes I think that God must find it amusing to watch us try so hard to figure out things that he designed and put into place, and that we'll never come close to understanding.

Weather reports are predictions by sophisticated computer models of the future. No one can predict the future with great accuracy. We should not expect them to.

I know it's an inexact science, it's just frustrating. And then, on the rare chance they get a big one right, they walk around beating their chests for a couple of months.

I'm finished complaining, it's a nice day today, just as predicted. :roll:

My favorite forecast was from "The Hippy Dippy Weatherman". George Carlin.

My wife was the best weather person I ever knew. She was half Native American and swore the animals told her when it would rain by their actions and calls. She was right about 90% of the time. The computers have nothing on the old ways.

As you say, things can change quickly. Makes me wonder just why they bother with a five day outlook, only to change it in less than 24 hrs.

I watch Angela Buchman on channel 8 here in central Indiana. To tell you the truth I could care less if she gets the weather right but she is sure easy on the eyes!!

(quoted from post at 12:31:10 11/23/11) I sure miss Harold Taft. We called him Gods weatherman here in Texas. If he said it was going to snow on July 4th it snowed.

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Chicago tv viewers had Harry Volkman for just about forever. He's retired now. The man who risked being prosecuted to give the first tornado warning on television 50+ years ago was one of the best. He was just plain good at what he did, and how he explained it to you. He wasn't one of these gloom-and-doom forecasters, either. They don't make them like him anymore.

Chicago still has Tom Skilling, the man who tries to give a 4 semester college course in weather every night for 10 minutes during the 9:00 news on WGN.

South Bend, IN television for the most part has gloom and doom weather idiots. "We're breaking into programming to tell you that it's sprinkling 85 miles outside of our viewing area. Stay tuned, we'll be back with team coverage in 5 minutes, for now, back to all but the last 5 laps of the Indy 500". When we do have severe weather, the weather-guessers don't even know the cities and towns in their viewing area. They rattle off names of towns and settlements that no longer exist, or places that were railroad stops or junctions 40-75 years ago when there were still tracks there. "A severe storm is heading for Pine in 8 minutes." Better call Norfolk Southern, their employees were probably the last people there about 15 years ago.

NBC's Today Show and The Weather Channel still have Al Roker, Mr. "I'm not a meterologist, but I get to play one on tv".

It's not an exact science, and nobody's perfect. With all of the technology available, they ought to be more accurate than a coin toss.

AG

I was over by St. Louis [I think] a few weeks ago and the radio station I had on at the time went to the weather man for the forecast.
Meterologist name: Harley Wright