What a depressing weather prediction
By Koalemos
@Asylum (47893)
Manchester, England
December 4, 2015 6:53am CST
I rarely bother checking the weather reports, mainly because they are notoriously unreliable. This morning I decided to have a change and checked my local weather for the next 10 days via the Microsoft weather app.
The prediction of rain is far from unexpected in England, but the consistency of it can be very disheartening. The next 10 days were a mixture of 4 different types of weather, which were Rain, Light Rain, Cloudy and Rain Showers.
Basically they have just rephrased the same description in order to make it appear less monotonous.
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17 responses
@rebelann (112966)
• El Paso, Texas
5 Dec 15
It's pretty much the same here but the words sunny skies and breezy then sunny skies and windy or sunny skies with gusts up to 30 miles per hour are more common. We pray for rain and if we see it in the forecast we can hardly wait.
@rocky1980 (530)
• Chandigarh, India
5 Dec 15
weather forecasters always prove wrong. If they forecast rain on a particular day, either it rains a day before that day or 2 or 3 days after day, most probably it rains on a day which is supposed to be a sunny day as per their forecast.
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
5 Dec 15
@rocky1980 When we think about it there is no excuse for a wrong prediction these days. People spend years studying meteorology and then use millions of pounds worth of computer equipment running specially written software to analyse data from a myriad of satellites orbiting the planet, yet a farmer can predict the weather more accurately.
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@rocky1980 (530)
• Chandigarh, India
5 Dec 15
@Asylum So in England there is no threat to their credibility. Here in India no one takes them seriously. They are also human beings they are not god, humans do mistake specially when it comes to predictions of any sort.
@changjiangzhibin89 (16789)
• China
5 Dec 15
To be fair ,here the weather forecast tends to be as right as nails .They said " rainy day will be expected today ",however yesterday the weather was so fine .Sure enough ,it rains all day today .
@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
5 Dec 15
Not a mention of drizzle then? Still you are used to the wet weather up north!
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
5 Dec 15
@garymarsh6 If this wind continues it should blow the rain down South quite soon.
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@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
5 Dec 15
@Asylum It is looking a bit grim but no rain here! Yet!
@Missmwngi (12915)
• Nairobi, Kenya
4 Dec 15
@Asylum Ha haa ooh yeah,maybe that will help someone feel at easy though
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
4 Dec 15
I can understand this one. When we have a lot of rain or tropic depression they can go on for days on end. By the end you're happy they are over.
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
4 Dec 15
@Asylum No it doesn't. You wake up each day and know what to expect. Grey skies, rain, clouds, and storms. You know when you leave the road conditions are the pits and you hate to go out in it. Plus where you live when this one happens it makes it even colder and more miserable so you surely don't want to leave your home.
@anamika5776 (250)
• New Delhi, India
10 Dec 15
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
@GardenGerty (160949)
• United States
4 Dec 15
Here's hoping they are in error and that the have erred on the side of sunny. It would be awful to have some of that rain turn to freezing rain, although I guess snow would not be so bad as long as it was not horizontal. We have had that here, but not in a while.
