Weather

[Cruisingdad]

Could someone pelase tell me WHYYYYY the The Weather Channel tells you what the weather is going to be in 5-7 days when they can't even get tomorrow right??? It has honestly never made sense to me. I can't tell you how many times I have seen them have a 90-100% chance of rain on blue skies, and a 10%-0% chance of rain while it was pouring.

I have decided to chage my career. I will be a metrologist on some tv. I will smile and point to the screen, and say, "Folks, 50/50 chance of rain today and tomorrow. It might rain, it might not."

THen I collect my check and get back out to the boat.

- CD

[PBzeer]

Nice to have a job where it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong, eh?

[Cruisingdad]

With a 50/50 probability, you are always right!!!

[T37Chef]

You can add NOAA in there as well.

[TrueBlue]

I was supposed to leave for the airport a few minutes ago, but it was just announced that my flight's been delayed 90 minutes - due to a weather related delay at the departing airport!!!

I'm stuck in the office for another 1-1/2 hours. Guess I should have planned on a 50% probability.

[Cruisingdad]

Originally Posted by TrueBlue

I was supposed to leave for the airport a few minutes ago, but it was just announced that my flight's been delayed 90 minutes - due to a weather related delay at the departing airport!!!

I'm stuck in the office for another 1-1/2 hours. Guess I should have planned on a 50% probability.

You obviously don't check the weather before you travel. If you had been informed of their reliable information, you would have been certain that there was a 50/50 that you might go... or you might not.

Geez, TB, and you call yourself a sailor. (smile)

- CD

[TrueBlue]

It's all good I suppose - gives me some more time to continue work on a design project I'm scheduled to present to clients next week - with a 50/50 probability they will like it . . . or not.

So, how does any extra work effort matter anyway?

[7Psych]

The best profession you can get paid for being wrong.

[Giulietta]

CD,

I'll explain the Wather man to you..

See they have these Chimpazees, all dressed up, a room a few darts and a board with numbers.

They teach the Chimpazees how to throw the darts. Then in the morning, they come in, and show a banana to the chimpazee.

The Chimpazee learnt that he has to throw the darts at the board, to get the banana. He does, his job is done.

Chimpazee eats banana and goes to another room where he will spend the rest of the day playing with his balls, and sniffing his finger, after he touched his butt with it... a perfectly normall behaviour for a monkey.

Now.... lets pause and return to the room with darts, now randomly stuck in the board.

The board (and this is the cience about it) has numbers.

This weatherman, that went ot school for 6 years to leran how to interpret numbers, walks in.

He looks at the board....13 and 8 that's 21 plus 49 that's 70...

Tomorrow will be 70!!!!

Then they get to another man, the one you see on TV, and he says publically:

"tomorrow will be 70"....

Then, the next day.... you get out in your shorts, and as you stand in the corner waiting for your taxi, snow gently pounding you in the head...you say...

"What can I say...the weather man is a monkey!!!!"

[Cruisingdad]

Ahhh, now I see. THank you Giu. I was very confused how it worked. THus, each time the weatherman opens his mouth, I will think of this: