How can weathermen hold their heads up at temple or anywhere else. If they were at the mercy of little league coaches they'd be out of the game but instead they get to play again tomorrow. Who but a weather man, or the coach's son, can strike out so often and stay in the lineup?
When you consider the array of scientific information from radar,satellites, computers with weather models, human observers relaying information and an open window, you would expect better accuracy in weather predictions. Whatever the reason for the failure, if that's the best they can do, stop trying. There are thousands, maybe millions, of people world-wide who gather information and disseminate weather reports. Every newspaper, radio and television outlet has multiple personnel who twenty-four hours a day "report" the weather, some being readers and others meteorologists, and a substantial number of times they are wrong. If they insist on playing this game with us, I propose that they should guarantee a ninety-five percent accuracy rate and, failing to meet that standard, one of them should be whipped on the eleven o'clock news or left to stand in a blizzard they failed to predict.
As much as any other thing about it that is annoying is that, like serial killers, they show no remorse. A simple apology would do but the arrogance is apparent when they show up the next night with a big smile while giving us the finger behind their backs. If I could, I would eliminate weather altogether so they would have nothing to report.
When you consider the array of scientific information from radar,satellites, computers with weather models, human observers relaying information and an open window, you would expect better accuracy in weather predictions. Whatever the reason for the failure, if that's the best they can do, stop trying. There are thousands, maybe millions, of people world-wide who gather information and disseminate weather reports. Every newspaper, radio and television outlet has multiple personnel who twenty-four hours a day "report" the weather, some being readers and others meteorologists, and a substantial number of times they are wrong. If they insist on playing this game with us, I propose that they should guarantee a ninety-five percent accuracy rate and, failing to meet that standard, one of them should be whipped on the eleven o'clock news or left to stand in a blizzard they failed to predict.
As much as any other thing about it that is annoying is that, like serial killers, they show no remorse. A simple apology would do but the arrogance is apparent when they show up the next night with a big smile while giving us the finger behind their backs. If I could, I would eliminate weather altogether so they would have nothing to report.
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