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I wasn't sure where to post this, so any mods please move it to where it needs to go if this is the wrong place.
Where I used to live had many bodies of water, but even there, the weather forecasts were somewhat reliable. Where I live now is in a region near both coastline and mountains, and it's a complete fiasco. This is my first summer here, and the weather forecasts are notoriously unpredictable, particularly rain forecasts, and it's a sentiment shared by many people here. We've had predictions of rain/t-storms for every single day since mid-July, and this week we're getting tons of predictions of heavy rain and massive flood warnings, but we have hardly had a drop so far. I'll see what happens for the rest of the week, but I wouldn't even be surprised at this point if we hardly get any rain. If we do, it'll likely be later and less severe than they said (i'll post an update later).
As someone who does not own a car but only a motorcycle, this pains me greatly. While my bike/tires handle perfectly fine in rain, I still prefer to avoid it if I can especially if its heavy rain, due to the reduced visibility, visor fog, and general discomfort. And obviously t-storms are a bad idea to ride in. This throws a real monkey wrench into my plans, not just social/business but leisure - I was planning to take a motorcycle trip this week but with predictions of heavy rain/storms/flooding I figured I shouldn't, but we're halfway through the week and it's barely rained at all. I'm furious to the point I am genuinely going to look for a lawyer to sue even though I know that won't go anywhere and I know it's petty, I am genuinely curious to see if they'll even take my case.
I really don't understand why weatherman/meteorologists are immune to accountability or criticism - what other field is shielded from this? I was talking about this with my friend and the mere economic impacts of inaccurate weather reports may be staggering. Why are they allowed to predict 90% chance of nonstop rain and t-storms for weeks in a row only for it to rain one day a week for a few hours? Why are they allowed to predict 100% chance of rain if it does not in fact rain? In my view, that means you should lose your job. 100% is 100%. There's a lot of shills who defend them saying oh its really hard, no one can get it right. Okay, fine, but my problem is they have the audacity to act like they know what's going to happen every time. If they said "50% chance of rain" instead of 100%, no one can get mad when they're wrong. The shills will also say there are biases here where we discount when they're right and notice when they're wrong. But man, if it's sunny and normal atmospheric conditions it's not exactly rocket science to make predictions from that and no one cares if it's slightly cloudly instead of sunny. Everyone cares if it will rain or not, especially farmers, or people like myself who rely on it to make travel plans, and I'm sure all sorts of recreational places like golf courses are greatly affected by it too. And it seems to me, at least where I live now, they are consistently wrong; it rains when they say it won't, and doesn't rain when they say it will. I think I'm about ready to just ignore them completely and use my own eyes - does it look like it's gonna storm? If so, stay in. If it starts raining when I'm out, then I'll just tough it out, and if it gets real bad, I'll take shelter. I'm done with this nonsense.
Where I used to live had many bodies of water, but even there, the weather forecasts were somewhat reliable. Where I live now is in a region near both coastline and mountains, and it's a complete fiasco. This is my first summer here, and the weather forecasts are notoriously unpredictable, particularly rain forecasts, and it's a sentiment shared by many people here. We've had predictions of rain/t-storms for every single day since mid-July, and this week we're getting tons of predictions of heavy rain and massive flood warnings, but we have hardly had a drop so far. I'll see what happens for the rest of the week, but I wouldn't even be surprised at this point if we hardly get any rain. If we do, it'll likely be later and less severe than they said (i'll post an update later).
As someone who does not own a car but only a motorcycle, this pains me greatly. While my bike/tires handle perfectly fine in rain, I still prefer to avoid it if I can especially if its heavy rain, due to the reduced visibility, visor fog, and general discomfort. And obviously t-storms are a bad idea to ride in. This throws a real monkey wrench into my plans, not just social/business but leisure - I was planning to take a motorcycle trip this week but with predictions of heavy rain/storms/flooding I figured I shouldn't, but we're halfway through the week and it's barely rained at all. I'm furious to the point I am genuinely going to look for a lawyer to sue even though I know that won't go anywhere and I know it's petty, I am genuinely curious to see if they'll even take my case.
I really don't understand why weatherman/meteorologists are immune to accountability or criticism - what other field is shielded from this? I was talking about this with my friend and the mere economic impacts of inaccurate weather reports may be staggering. Why are they allowed to predict 90% chance of nonstop rain and t-storms for weeks in a row only for it to rain one day a week for a few hours? Why are they allowed to predict 100% chance of rain if it does not in fact rain? In my view, that means you should lose your job. 100% is 100%. There's a lot of shills who defend them saying oh its really hard, no one can get it right. Okay, fine, but my problem is they have the audacity to act like they know what's going to happen every time. If they said "50% chance of rain" instead of 100%, no one can get mad when they're wrong. The shills will also say there are biases here where we discount when they're right and notice when they're wrong. But man, if it's sunny and normal atmospheric conditions it's not exactly rocket science to make predictions from that and no one cares if it's slightly cloudly instead of sunny. Everyone cares if it will rain or not, especially farmers, or people like myself who rely on it to make travel plans, and I'm sure all sorts of recreational places like golf courses are greatly affected by it too. And it seems to me, at least where I live now, they are consistently wrong; it rains when they say it won't, and doesn't rain when they say it will. I think I'm about ready to just ignore them completely and use my own eyes - does it look like it's gonna storm? If so, stay in. If it starts raining when I'm out, then I'll just tough it out, and if it gets real bad, I'll take shelter. I'm done with this nonsense.
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In what other job can you get this deal?
