Whether the Weather's Whatever
These past several days the local diviners of weather have not only disagreed with each other they have disagreed with themselves. They were all very open and honest in admitting that the most accurate weather models they use were all saying very different things about what the past couple of days was going to bring.
At 10pm last night each of the local weather men had to make a call, and they all did, and they didn't agree, I'm not complaining mind you. I like it when they agree (and they are all right). I LOVE it when they disagree and one of them pulls the lucky straw and ends up right. However times like these don't make it easy to plan your day. It has to be doubly bad when you have a school age child and you have absolutely no idea what to expect by way of school closings the next morning. To be delayed or closed isn't so bad you know that your schedule will have to be modified. What makes it bad is when you go to bed and you have absolutely no idea if it is going to be a normal day or a closed school day. This gives you no time to coordinate your back up plan.
I don't blame the weather men for this. What they do is a prediction no different than a bookie setting odds on a sporting event. It is a complete mystery to me why more people don't make money wagers on the weather. You could even do a point spread on the ammount of precipitation.
The real issue at least for me as I don't gamble, and I don't have kids is to find one source of weather that is if not more accurate than everyone else is at least more consistant than everyone else.
This said, I hereby officially choose this source as my official pick of all informations weather related. If its good enough for my father to plant by it ought to be good enough for me to figure out what to wear by. I'll still keep my eye on channel 2 and channel 8. Now THAT's entertainment!
