Weather men can't get the weater report right. Why??

Question

They say they have all kinds of fancy sicientific equipment that gives them Doppler, Barometer, etc information. Yet I watch the 6PM news and there's a slight chance of rain in the morning hours. Then I wake and the 5AM report says is it's going to rain all day. Expect half an inch. Then at 8AM they say expect an inch of rain. The expected rain fall doubled in just 3 hours??? What's up with that??? Are they even trying to get it right any more. 35 years ago the weather reports were more accurrate and I was just a little kid, but I still remember that.

Answer 1

And yet they devote at least 5 minutes to the weather report. My favorite weather prediction is a 50% chance of rain. Which simply means that it might rain and it might not.

Answer 2

I know what you mean. I only look at weather reports for the next day, anything beyond that seems like a wild guess. However, I live in a mountainous place with odd weather patterns. It has been historically difficult to predict the weather here. Perhaps you live somewhere different than where you did 35years ago? Maybe weather was easier to predict there.

As an aside, about 15 years ago, I lived in a place way out in the country. Weather forecasters were predicting 3 inches of snow. I tuned the radio to the local channel and this guy who called in regularly who called himself Uncle Eddie said "His chickens were dancin'" It's gonna snow several feet. I laughed. Uncle Eddie and his chickens were right. After that, I listened to Uncle Eddies forecast regularly, and he was only wrong 2 times that I can remember.

Perhaps meterologists should invest in chickens instead of doppler! :)

Answer 3

I only get upset when the weather isn't what the weather man reported. So many times it's been wrong.

Answer 4

Weather reports aren't "what is going to happen, but most likely what will happen" based on the past. It gives you a warm, fuzzy, that there is a good chance, not a one hundred percent certainty it will rain. For me, that's close enough, puts me on the lookout for rain, or whatever, and thankful they were "wrong."

Answer 5

It's basically an educated guess. It's not an exact science. Give them credit, they're right most of the time. 2D

Answer 6

I know! I hate how they rarely get it right. It's because the system and weather....it changes so fast...sometimes so fast that it makes it really, really hard to track it. Litteraly every second the weather is changing...you might not realize it, but it does.

Answer 7

Weather can change in an instant, and people have no control over what the weather does.

Answer 8

You can't control Mother Nature!

Answer 9

They're not GODS!!

Answer 10

there's no guarantee.