B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for February 05, 2015

@ Valka about 1 hour ago“Obviously he meant the -40s and was speaking Celsius.”   No it wasn’t Celsius, it was Fahrenheit!! Can’t you tell the difference?

Every weather person has those days. They look more spectacularly wrong because of good communication.

Ah, yes! The Weather Profession. What else can you do where you can be wrong half the time and still be doing a good job?

February 5 is National Weatherperson’s Day which recognizes those in meteorology fields such as weather forecasting and also the volunteer storm spotters and observers. February 5 was chosen because it was the birthday of John Jeffries, one of the United States’ first weather observers who in 1774 started taking daily weather related measurements.

I always get a kick out of the newscasters thanking their resident “weather person” for delivering such pleasant weather (assuming the weather was pleasant)!.Like he/she had anything to do with it…

Clearly he’s in Boston and reading the forecast for the wrong city.

I don’t mind our local meteorologist not being 100% right, but there is one thing I dread. Hearing that

Yeah, didn’t see that one coming.

Who’s Tad?

maybe it was supposed to be “inches of snow” instead of “degrees of temperature”

Weather forecasting, the most difficult job AND with the most complaints. Perhaps you folks should take it up with God (or “mother Nature” if you are so inclined).

It’s easy being a weatherman in Seattle __ degrees and rain.

Meteorology. The only profession for which there is no accepted standard of malpractice.

Not Centigrade: Kelvin!

Not Kelvin: Rankine!

Reminds me of the Buffalo DJ who, per the Readers Digest, read a weather forecast during a typical Buffalo blizzard: “Low temperature of 24 degrees, 20% chance of precipitation. It’s currently 20 degrees and it’s been 20-percenting all afternoon.”

@tired-one“Not Celsius, centigrade!”.“Celsius” by international standards

That is exactly how it was yesterday in the Texas panhandle as we attended graveside services. The forecast was for 46*. It was 26*, snowing and over 30 mph winds.

Not very believable. Forecasters never admit to making mistakes, they just give tomorrow’s forecast like they had been 100% correct yesterday. Same with economists…