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Date Posted: 19:21:46 02/08/14 Sat
Post from a friend who lives in Marshfield, WI.
It seems weather forecasting is similar all over the US.
The reference to "Windy" or "Windy Prognosticator" is another list member who is a minister here in the upper Midwest. His self applied handle is "The Windy Preacher" or a derivation thereof.
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Today's Grouch
Date: Sat Feb 8, 2014
I can see I should have been a Weatherman. You get all these neat,
expensive toys to play with, stand in front of a green-screen-generated
weather map, and, in accordance with your college education in
Meteorology, get to prognosticate YOUR take on what the weather will or
won't do. If you miss, you can come up with Plausible deniability by
making "educated excuses" that most dumb people won't argue with because
they don't know and, in truth, don't care. Essentially, you can be WRONG
and keep your nearly 6-figure job.
Kinda like Windy does in his position of being the Windy
Prognosticator of God's word, 'cept he don't have all the nifty space
gadgets and two different types of Radar.
Anyway, today the weather forecast on Charter's Homepage says, very
simply, "30% chance of snow". For a larger explanation, I usually go to
WEAU Channel 13 out of Eau Claire. Most everyone in Marshfield
eventually learns that to get an "accurate" forecast, you turn to
Channel 13 out of Eau Claire. Channel 13 says, "accumulations of about
an inch SOUTH OF I-90"; I-90 for me is a two-hour drive at Tomah. So,
what this tells me is that we'll probably see flurries, no real
accumulations.
So this morning for the heck of it, I decided to raise my bleed
pressure, and I toddle over to WAOW Channel 9 in Wausau. Channel 9 says,
"accumulation of up to an inch in AREAS SOUTH OF THE HIGHWAY 29
CORRIDOR". Well, Marshfield is south of the Highway 29 corridor.
Hmmm. This presents an interesting conundrum. Two Weather
departments with access to nearly the same technology, but one tracks
the storm moving farther north than the other. Who to believe?
I'll do what I always do, wait to see what it actually does. One
station will be closer to the truth than the other.
It never fails to amaze me that they've sent up all kinds of
"weather satellites" (so they say), they invented "Doppler Radar" (which
I refer to, sarcastically, as "Dopus Radar"), and all the hoopla that
was associated with it, like, "increased accuracy right down to your
street", which, in fact, is simply not true. Just more propaganda to
increase viewers. Although things have improved from the days of Ken
Chapin at Channel 7 (it used to be WSAU, now it's WSAW), its not that
much improved. Technically, you get just as accurate a forecast as
watching Don Knotts as the "Nervous Weatherman" on Youtube.
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