Can someone shed some light on something for me? I’ve been trying all morning to figure out how forecasting the weather ever broke away from forecasting your future (fortune telling) and became a legitimate profession. I am sure there are plenty of scientific arguments as to why forecasting the weather is different such as “it’s based on physical evidence and experience” but for crap’s sake, at least a fortune teller will be vague enough that you can formulate your own justification for taking them seriously. I mean a weather man/woman can say, “We’re looking forward to sunny skies all weekend” and then it will rain for three days straight meaning that they were just flat out wrong.
Every time I make this argument and ask someone “Hey how come the weatherman said it wouldn’t rain but now it’s raining?” I always get the same kind of response which is usually something to the effect of “Well, things change” or “Well, they can’t really know what’s gonna happen.” If you can’t really know what’s gonna happen but you’re telling people what you think will happen, that is called GUESSING. If I could only get things right 50% of the time at my job, I would be fired. FIRED.
I know I am being pretty irrational but I am pissed because I was supposed to go camping this weekend with a bunch of friends and now it’s looking like we might not be able to go because of the rain. The rain that “wasn’t” going to be here but mysteriously showed up out of nowhere. Those sneaky clouds…
May 4th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
I have long since abandoned all faith in the weatherman. I prefer to look out the window each morning, and base my choice of clothing for the day on what I see.
For example, the other day I looked out the window and saw two rabbits in my yard so I wore a fur cap. It’s that simple.
December 1st, 2006 at 11:56 am
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