Ross Brown Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 Is anyone here a weatherman? Seems like it is hard to predict 2 feet of snow within 36 hours.... how come? "When I take a stroll down Jackass Lane it is usually to see someone that is already there" Mrs. Brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenfxj Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 What's it looking like out there in PA, Ross? Push the button Frank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy c Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Free download of my cd!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Brown Posted December 19, 2009 Author Share Posted December 19, 2009 18 inches of blowing snow... expect 2 feet by morning.... On thursday they said no snow, storm will miss us..... dumbasses.... "When I take a stroll down Jackass Lane it is usually to see someone that is already there" Mrs. Brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenfxj Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 Yeah, a few days ago they said "snow showers". Now we're looking at over a foot. I wouldn't care but my wife has to work tomorrow so I'll be up at 5:00 on a Sunday digging out her car. The things we do for love.... Push the button Frank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenfxj Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 I took a look around to see which way the wind blow. Push the button Frank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davio Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 Last I heard, tonight we're getting up to 12"...we'll see. If only I could have a decent-paying job that required a college degree where I could be wrong 90% of the time and still make bonuses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky McDougall Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 I think the weather reports would be more accurate if the studios had windows. Rocky "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb, voting on what to eat for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb, contesting the vote." Benjamin Franklin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul K Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 Sad to report that the snow didn't make it this far west. Things are just the way they are, and they're only going to get worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy c Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 If I were a skier, a foot of fresh white powder would be a wonderful thing. When it is keeping me from opening the front door, not such a wonderful thing. Free download of my cd!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Brown Posted December 20, 2009 Author Share Posted December 20, 2009 I have a 400 foot driveway to clear. I use a snow blower. Takes 2 hours. I like warm weather..... I just wish that the weatherman could get a forcast right. I don't even bother anymore.... "When I take a stroll down Jackass Lane it is usually to see someone that is already there" Mrs. Brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davio Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 If I were a skier, a foot of fresh white powder would be a wonderful thing. When it is keeping me from opening the front door, not such a wonderful thing. Your front door opens out? Weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Brown Posted December 20, 2009 Author Share Posted December 20, 2009 The screen door would.... "When I take a stroll down Jackass Lane it is usually to see someone that is already there" Mrs. Brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy c Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 The screen door would.... What he said. Except that there's glass in it, not a screen. Free download of my cd!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicklab Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 Looks like I got the weaker side of this storm. Less than a foot of snow here. Unlike some of my fellow Garden State residents "down the shore" who got hammered with as much as three feet. As for weathermen? Please. We can all read a radar map, but predicting this stuff is just ridiculous. These guys are probably hoping for the day that they can become the weatherman in San Diego, so that one day all they have to do on tv is say "Hey, it's gonna be nice today!" On a related note, I just joined a broadcasting group on Facebook called "Overheard in the control room". And there's a legend of a tv weatherman who had predicted snow one night. The next night, the female anchor challenged said weatherman on the air, saying "So Bob, what happened to the 6 inches you promised me last night?" Obligatory Social Media Link "My concern is, and I have to, uh, check with my accountant, that this might bump me into a higher, uh, tax..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davo-London Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 I think you are being a little unfair. Do you not remember how useless the predictions were when we were kids and there were no satellites? If they see a storm coming then at the last minute in changes direction due to some complex weather chain, surely that's not their fault. Besides it's something to chat about. Better than "I need my first bass, what should I buy?" Davo Davo "We will make you bob your head whether you want to or not". - David Sisk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butcherNburn Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 Keep in mind the weather is part of a news "show" so a lot of it is fear mongering. They'll often put a reporter out in the worst of it, 75 miles away from the city, to get the best shot. Weather predicting has gotten much better in my lifetime. You can't always blame the boob (or boobs on some stations) that are just reading what was given to them. It wasn't so long ago that you had to get the weather from the newspaper, an almanac or by looking at the sky. My neighbor across the street had 3 inches of snow, I had almost 3 feet. If you think my playing is bad, you should hear me sing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy c Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 I think that weather girls are famous for boobs, not weather forecasts. They are all reading the same weather reports from the National Weather Service. I really doubt that more than a handful of weather reporters throughout this fine nation are actually meteorologists. My dad was actually a meteorologist in the Army and if we asked him what the weather was going to be like, he said he couldn't tell us without getting data from the National Weather Service. Free download of my cd!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Brown Posted December 21, 2009 Author Share Posted December 21, 2009 For me, I think the acuracy would go way up if they just said that tomorrow will be the same as today. That way they would only be wrong when the weather changed. Not much of a way to do long range forecasting, but then again I have never seen an acurate long range forcaster. "When I take a stroll down Jackass Lane it is usually to see someone that is already there" Mrs. Brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy c Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 Where I live in California, if you said "tomorrow will be the same as today," you would only be wrong twice a year, once at the beginning of the rainy season and once at the end of the rainy season. There is usually no rain from April through October. How boring. Free download of my cd!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Brown Posted December 21, 2009 Author Share Posted December 21, 2009 "When I take a stroll down Jackass Lane it is usually to see someone that is already there" Mrs. Brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b5pilot Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 Our TV weatherfolk in the Metro Detroit area claim to be meterologists and all of them have like 6 kinds of Doppler radar and computer weather models. They still get it wrong a fair amount of the time! Go figure... Lydian mode? The only mode I know has the words "pie ala" in front of it. http://www.myspace.com/theeldoradosband Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5 string Mike Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 Weather reporters can be about the only profession (except maybe politicians) where they are wrong 80% of the time and still have a job- and a well paying job at that. I remember about 12-15 years ago when the midwest had a super cold streak for like 2-3 weeks and all the weather men were getting death threats and stuff. "Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind"- George Orwell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy c Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 The film, The Weatherman starring Nicholas Cage is a good film that explores the psyche of the TV weatherman. Free download of my cd!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butcherNburn Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 I think that predicting the weather more than 48 hours in advance is just that, predicting. You can look at satellite images, trends etc., but things can change a lot in a few hours let alone days. If you think my playing is bad, you should hear me sing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norwegia Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Predicting weather is alot harder than it sounds. The winds, temperature, jet stream, everything really, is changing pretty much constantly. Because of this it is almost like trying to predict whose going to win a race when the lineup and starting positions are constantly changing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Brown Posted December 22, 2009 Author Share Posted December 22, 2009 But they claim to be able to do it..... "When I take a stroll down Jackass Lane it is usually to see someone that is already there" Mrs. Brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy c Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Everyone complains about the weather, but no one does anything about it. Free download of my cd!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenfxj Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/weatherman.jpg He really likes Ohio. Just sayin'... Push the button Frank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b5pilot Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Lydian mode? The only mode I know has the words "pie ala" in front of it. http://www.myspace.com/theeldoradosband Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.