The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for July 08, 2022

let’s hope it doesn’t “rain men” too often…

Some people (by that I mean my wife) complain if the weather forecast is off by two degrees or two hours. I’m amazed that they get it as right as they do. There hasn’t been a major surprise around here in as long as I can remember.

At least he’s approached his Very Important job with some kind of external aid. Much more than many I’ve seen recently who’ve had No Experience and launch into an incomprehensible Word Salad feigning that they even understood the question.

I prefer Mexican weather …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WypMZ-ppY30

90% of the time he is 6 out of 7 30% correct, or not.

Maybe he can make a better climate model.

What, No raining cats and dogs on the weather wheel?!

I wonder how Dustin Hoffman would do as a rain forecaster?

Who is Jeff Corbet?

he could probably improve his accuracy by using darts…

My grad level Ag Econ professor in college got his degree at Purdue. One of Purdue’s Ag professors delivered the annual forecast for pork futures, which greatly influence prices. My professor asked him once how he did it and said the guy said he threw darts, which was about as accurate as analytical models.

Spot on. Weather people are the most overpaid in any field. In what other job could you be so wrong, so often and not get fired? Even with Doppler bazillion, they get it wrong.

Which replaced the less scientific method of throwing darts or rolling dice.

I just hope it’s not a locust plague. I hate when that happens.

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs. RIP James Caan.

Where’s “biblical plague”?

Statistically, the most accurate weather forecast is “same as yesterday.”

Round and round she goes, where she stops nobody knows!!!

Sad but so true.

Little children who tell lies grow up to be meteorologists.

The weather channel might be more accurate if they used this method.

Being a TV weather reporter is especially cushy in Phoenix, where you can show up on Dec. 31 with a collection of different-colored ties, record 365 variations on “sunny, hot, and dry”, and take the entire next year off.

In Portland there would be one point for sunny, and all the rest would be rain.

When you’re expecting a human to predict the future with a high degree of accuracy, you will be disappointed. Even when they have all that fancy equipment and data and such, we really are asking them to accurately predict the future. Sorry, not going to happen.

I’ll buy a bucket of water.

I LOVE IT!!!!!!!

Golden Oldies:

“I hold out this piece of rope to find out the weather. If it sways back and forth, it’s windy. If it gets wet, it’s raining.”

Did you hear the one about the weather man who was run out of town for predicting the weather correctly? He was always wrong — if his forecast was sunny, it rained, and if he predicted rain, it would be a sunny day. One day he predicted torrential rains for the upcoming weekend, so everyone in town decided to picnic in the park. But he was right, and of course the rain ruined everyone’s picnics — so they ran him out of town.

It’s Raining Men, Halleluah! Hope they have their yellow slickers on!

Just as I suspected.

No hot & humid weather, please!

Must be The Weather Network up here in Canada.

“I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger.”