Got up at 6am, watched the weather channel, clear and 75 degrees all day! Just finished the third CRV in the driveway. Wash, Vanilla Moose, Souveran. Buffed the last panel on the third CRV and the heavens opened up out of nowhere and it's raining like crazy! If nothing else, my wife is getting a lot of amusement out of this. Oh well, at least I hadn't done the Vette and Prelude yet. My next career is going to be a weather forcaster, I swear. Talk about your non-exact science. I think weather forcasting training constists of 3 years of terminology and 2 weeks of looking out of the window watching for rain! J/K, no offense meant to the pros, I appreciate advance notice on the tornados, etc, especially around here!
Ahh, nature
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imported_Yosemite Dan
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The biggest kick I get is from the farmers almanac when they try to predict what the entire season (it will be a hot, dry summer) will be like. They're never even close when they do that. I never pay attention to the forecasts when I detail as 3 different channels will say 3 different things and it's worked out good for me.
Growing up from the Midwest I can totally attest to the random nature of well, nature. This is because of different fronts, airstreams, etc. that creates a weather catacophony which is really hard to predict. Now I live by the Pacific coast so its pretty much predicting the two winds coming from the NW and the SW.
Prometheus
Perfectionist in Rehab
Yeah, gotta love weathermen. We always joke that being a weatherman in Michigan is about the easiest job there is cause the weather seems to change minute by minute. I love it when they puta % chance on the rain too. How do they know we got a 45% chance of rain in the afternoon? Where do they get this crap?
TortoiseAWD
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Prometheus,Prometheus said:
While I'm not fond of the numbers games that the weathermen play, either, there is some science behind it. When they say there's a 30% chance of rain, they're not saying "Well, it shouldn't rain today, but I'm covering my prediction with a 30% 'waffle'." A 30% chance of rain means that, historically, days that have had conditions similar to today (temp, barometer, cloud cover, etc.) have produced rain 3 times out of 10.
I figure there's always a 50% chance of rain. Either it will, or it won't.
Tort