Why can't they get it right?
By BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (47302)
St. Catharines, Ontario
April 15, 2013 5:59pm CST
I'm talking about weather forecasters.
Yesterday it was forecast that today the temperature would get to 20°C, then this morning it was revised to 16°. I was out all afternoon and if it got to 12° I'd be very surprised.
It's supposed to rain tomorrow. I hope they're wrong about that, too. I still have a lot of yard work to do.
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@warmweatherwoman (2233)
• Atlantic City, New Jersey
16 Apr 13
Never thought about it that way...
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@BarBaraPrz (47302)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
16 Apr 13
What doesn't wash away gets pretty yucky, I guess.
@peavey (16936)
• United States
16 Apr 13
I've got yard work, too, but it's buried under six inches of snow right now! They said it would snow, but not that much. I wasn't expecting much to happen.
Weather forecasts have been really hit or miss lately. I do just as well to watch the sky and make my own forecasts.
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@BarBaraPrz (47302)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
16 Apr 13
Maybe we'd get a better forecast if we consulted a ouija board.
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
21 Apr 13
They are a bit like those fortune tellers, I am sure there is no real science to weather prediction, they have to get it right some time, so I wonder how much of it is plain guess work and how much is actually scientific. Back in 1987 I remember a famous weather reporter telling everyone there wasn't going to be a hurricane and denied it totally, what happens, we are hit by a massive hurricane!
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@BarBaraPrz (47302)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
16 Apr 13
Especially here in Hamilton, don't you think? Our weather so often seems to be completely different from Toronto's, yet we mostly get Toronto weather forecasts.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
16 Apr 13
The forecasters drive me nuts here. They talk & talk & talk & then half the time they don't get it right. We had a beautiful day here. I think it's suppose to start raining here again. I am sick of rainy weather.I have had my yard mowed once & it really needs it again. That gets expensive but i sure can't do it myself, DARN IT.
@BarBaraPrz (47302)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
16 Apr 13
Most of my yard is flower beds, so I don't have to worry about mowing grass. But it also means I can't just rake up all the winter detritus.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
16 Apr 13
why would they be using Celsius, you said 20C if you use Fahrenheit
@changjiangzhibin89 (16760)
• China
19 Apr 13
We can't completely believe them.Take it for what it's worth .
@kenshin2143 (1880)
• Philippines
16 Apr 13
Well I think forecasters are just dependent on what the weather is and I guess the weather is not really at a predictable phase and that's why there are random changes from one temperature or forecast to the other.
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@BarBaraPrz (47302)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
16 Apr 13
Do they just pull a number out of a hat and hope it's in the ballpark?