We can send a man to the moon but we can’t predict weather a few hours a head of the actual event. Why is it that the people in the weather-prediction profession get all manner of expensive equipment and then SHOVE that equipment down our throats every chance they get (Quadruple Doppler radar with an attachment that juliennes fries!) but when it comes to predicting snow they can’t even come close?
It’s OK if you tell me there’s going to be a big snow storm a day in advance, but when it is obvious that the storm didn’t track anywhere close to where it was predicted, then put on your big boy and girl pants and change the forecast.
I may as well have stood outside with my finger in the air and predicted the storm. If I can still see my driveway that’s not five to 8 inches of snow. Turn in your quadruple Doppler radar, you don’t deserve it.
I’m a bit happy that the prediction turned out wrong. It’s pretty this morning, but I’m so happy it’s not on the roads.
We got about 13 inches of snow, and we were in the 4-8 inch predicted zone.
It’s not so much about whether the prediction was right or not, but the complete and total lack of the ability to predict and the inability to change the forecast. Witness our inch or less and your 13 inches of snow. The inaccuracy is astounding.
I know it’s been said before but if other industries were allowed the variance that the weather people are allowed we’d never have vehicles that stay together at any rate of speed, computers that work, turbines that spin to produce power, etc.