When I lived up north, forecasts of very heavy snow had two simultaneous effects: the grocery stores were packed and the malls were nearly empty. A forecast like that even two days before Christmas and you could get your Christmas shopping done without crowds of people, assuming you weren’t buying people food for Christmas.
We only ever get our weather from The Weather Channel. One afternoon, when I was picking my daughters up from school, a number of other parents were saying how the next day school was probably going to be cancelled, as the local news channel was saying that we were going to get dumped on with snow. I said that TWC mentioned light flurries…not enough to cancel school. Boy, did I give a lot of “I told you so” looks the next morning!
Love it when they ay 30% chance of rain….That means 70% chance of no rain…We get less 3 inches a year. Makes it easy to keep your car clean and polished.
I live in the same place. I just discovered that a 30 foot high tsunami can travel as much as 12 miles inland. (some historic fact or the other about the Eastern US coast). our earthquake and/or tsunami will happen today or in 300 years. Breathe – have your emerg kit ready for the earthquake. And that’s about it.oh – and incase anyone has missed the news in the last couple of days – it has been 10 years since the tsunami killed over 200,000 people in Indonesia..
and this being the Wet Coast – November through February – expect rain, sprinkles, scattered showers, mist, scotch mist, very heavy damp fog, light showers, showers, heavy rain, deluges, downpours and our favourite – 5 minute monsoons that flood EVERYTHING and EVERYONE!and that’s just the forecast for today! LOL
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace almost 10 years ago
factually trueimplicitly false
Charlie Fogwhistle almost 10 years ago
When I lived up north, forecasts of very heavy snow had two simultaneous effects: the grocery stores were packed and the malls were nearly empty. A forecast like that even two days before Christmas and you could get your Christmas shopping done without crowds of people, assuming you weren’t buying people food for Christmas.
LeoAutodidact almost 10 years ago
A Snow forcast here always results in sold-out shelves of Bread, Milk, and Eggs. It would seem that “French Toast” is the “Breakfst of Shovelers!”
jimcates almost 10 years ago
so right
Wren Fahel almost 10 years ago
We only ever get our weather from The Weather Channel. One afternoon, when I was picking my daughters up from school, a number of other parents were saying how the next day school was probably going to be cancelled, as the local news channel was saying that we were going to get dumped on with snow. I said that TWC mentioned light flurries…not enough to cancel school. Boy, did I give a lot of “I told you so” looks the next morning!
rshive almost 10 years ago
My wife is a non-believer in Weather Bug. Has to see a forecast somewhere else.
ms-ss almost 10 years ago
One of our local stations constantly advertises “Calm during the Storm!” But they aren’t.
jtviper7 almost 10 years ago
Love it when they ay 30% chance of rain….That means 70% chance of no rain…We get less 3 inches a year. Makes it easy to keep your car clean and polished.
nosirrom almost 10 years ago
You’re going to get a forecast weather or not you agree!
1MadHat Premium Member almost 10 years ago
There was a WLS-TV forecaster, John Coleman, who used the building’s “Forecast Fire Escape” in his reports.
1MadHat Premium Member almost 10 years ago
The difference between climate and weather- .Climate is what you might historically expect.Weather is what you get, whether or not you like it.
Hunter7 almost 10 years ago
I live in the same place. I just discovered that a 30 foot high tsunami can travel as much as 12 miles inland. (some historic fact or the other about the Eastern US coast). our earthquake and/or tsunami will happen today or in 300 years. Breathe – have your emerg kit ready for the earthquake. And that’s about it.oh – and incase anyone has missed the news in the last couple of days – it has been 10 years since the tsunami killed over 200,000 people in Indonesia..
jppjr almost 10 years ago
Clear to partly cloudy with a chance of precipitation….’nuff said.
Hunter7 almost 10 years ago
and this being the Wet Coast – November through February – expect rain, sprinkles, scattered showers, mist, scotch mist, very heavy damp fog, light showers, showers, heavy rain, deluges, downpours and our favourite – 5 minute monsoons that flood EVERYTHING and EVERYONE!and that’s just the forecast for today! LOL
boldyuma almost 10 years ago
I wonder where this guy is now..He was a weatherman in Sacramento,Ca also..would call out…“Hellooooooo from Sacratomatoe !”
Charlie Fogwhistle almost 10 years ago
How about a hippy-dippy weatherman?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1uaw3WIOlc