Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Must be nice to be a weatherman
After this big hooplah of talk about this humongous nor'easter I noticed this morning and even still now that there is barely any snow outside. This honestly frustrates me because me like most people was prepared for there to be a blizzard yet its only a dusting. Which brings me to my point it must be nice to have a job on tv were over 50% of the time you are wrong and are lying to your audience and oo yea get paid for it as well.
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I dunno...we got our share of snow and ice here on the Cape--even lost power on Wednesday night for a brief time. Weather forecasting is an inexact science (wait come to think of it, ALL science is inexact if you really break it down), but that doesn't mean that it's not worth paying attention to. 50%--that seems a little harsh. I'd challenge you to actually do a study of this and see just how (in)accurate weather forecasters are here in New England!
ReplyDeleteI actually wanted to be a meteorologist before i picked communications. I acutally have a passion for weather, especially for nor'easters here in new england, they fascinate me. The reason new england weather is so hard to forecast, is that we are in the middle of everything within the jetstream! Sometimes it can be hot, and just as easily be very cold. Forecasting on the cape is even harder, and all of eastern massachusetts for that matter, because of the ocean. With ocean temps hovering around 40 degrees most of the winter, forecasters have to be weary of wind direction, because wind off the ocean causes milder air to move in changing any snow to rain, and creating a sort of "marine layer". I could talk hours about this but i'll leave it at that.
ReplyDeletehey, i can't complain about a day off! and having an estimated guess about whats going on in the week weather wise is better than nothing, right? easier to plan my outfits this way :)
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