How Far Off Can The Forecasters Be And How Often?

J.J. Jackson | March 31, 2010 

It has been a long, cold March here in Pittsburgh, PA. It has been so cold that this year I have not been able to take my motorcycle to work comfortably yet. Yeah, I could ride but hoping on the motorcycle at 6:15 in the morning when the temperature is already just barely above freezing would be quite a bit uncomfortable. Generally I look for an AM temperature at the time of my morning commute of at least 50 before I take my V-star Classic on the road for the 25 mile commute one way.

This, by the way, is the latest I have gone in a year without being able to take the motorcycle to work.

I was happy last night because today looked like it would be the day I finally got to get out of the car and onto the road. When I looked at the weather yesterday from weather.com, which is the Weather Channel’s website, it listed a low temperature of 47 F for this morning. Hey, a little chilly but I can live with it and made my morning plans accordingly. And with afternoon temperatures projected to be in the 60’s all seemed right with the world.

Yeah, until I woke up, let the dogs out and got hit with air so cold it was shocking. The thermometer on the back porch read 33 F. The temperature on weather.com was listed as 34 F. But, in typical contradictory fashion, looking at the daily forecast on the same site it reported a low for today of 47 F. Call me crazy, but I think 34 F is lower than 47 F is it not? Someone better get on the ball over there at the Weather Channel and learn how to link their actual data to their forecasts and have it at least match up!

This is not the first time this has happened either. For most of March the actual temperature when I wake up in the morning has been much lower than the forecasters predicted even the night before. What is going on over there? You would think that there would always be some sort of discrepancy between projected temperatures and actual temperatures but a 10 F difference or more on a regular basis is a little bit much and honestly quite normal.

Yeah, and these yummy brains want to convince us that they can accurately predict temperatures decades into the future and warn us about how humans are destroying the Earth by warming it? Remember, it was the Weather Channel’s own little Stormtrooper Heidi Cullen that once had not nice things to say about people using their brains and not falling in line with the mantra from Al Gore’s Church of Global Warming and Society for the Acceptance of a Flat Earth. She was calling for weathermen and women that denied the official line from her messiah to have their credentials pulled.

I’ll tell you what, figure out how to predict the temperature for the next day accurately and within just a couple of degrees and then we can talk about letting you out of the sandbox and letting you play on the swing set. Because as usual your track records on the simple things aren’t all that good. So odds are your luck at trying to tackle more complicated topics will also likely not be all that great.


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