DAMMIT!!! The weatherman got it SO wrong.

[skypilot]

I watched the weather report last night to see what the weather would be like here in Philadelphia today. They said that the suburban regions would get a couple inches and that the Philadelphia area would get a "dusting".

THERE'S AN INCH OF SNOW OUT THERE SO FAR and it's still coming down heavy. Dammit.

[redqueen]

1. Never trust forecasts.

Meteorologists are evil... evil!

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Yeh, our game got cancelled *pout*

http://www.geocities.com/aescougarcheer/

[edbermac]

3. Take him out and have him flogged...

:grr:

[NYC]

4. They seem to have predicted it correctly for here.

So far, it seems to be following the "plan". We'll find out tomorrow if it ends the way they said it would.

They are predicting about 12" of snow starting Saturday night and ending Sunday night. Is it the same for Philadelphia?

[skypilot]

6. They predicted snow for this weekend but...

...I didn't hear anything about how many inches. I'm thinking that we are going to have a very snowy winter. The weather has been crazy for the past several months.

[NYC]

8. I think the weather has been weird for a few years now,

both summer and winter. What about Philadelphia?

[skypilot]

12. Our winters seem to be getting back to normal...

...which is good and bad. Good because it's supposed to snow and be cold in the winter; we'd had a couple winters where we got NO snow at all--at least here in the city. On the other hand, it's bad because I fucking hate the snow. Actually, that's not true. I fucking hate the ICE and SLSUH. The snow is great when it first gets here. I love that hush that eventually falls over the city when it snows but then a day or two later it's all slush and ice. That's what I always dread when it starts snowing.

[NYC]

14. I agree. It could snow 24 hours a day

if I didn't have to walk on it.

[Reverend_Smitty]

5. They have no idea what they are talking about...

I'm in South Jersey and it is snowing pretty hard and I think it is supposed to continue through this evening. My professor was talking about the weather in class today, he said that he heard on the news that the storm that is supposed to hit this weekend will deliver anywhere from 4 to 18 inches. He was like I can predict that too...it's like saying to someone well you either have an ankle sprain or an open compound fracture of your tibia, big difference! Well we all got a laugh out of it

[skypilot]

7. 4 to 18 inches.

:eyes: Yeah, that's very helpful--especially if you were only supposed to get a "dusting". If we get 4 to 18 inches of snow I'm going to be royally pissed.

[radfringe]

9. up here in Northeast PA

just around the corner from Wilkes-Barre -- they were saying 1-3" for today... we have 4-5 at the moment and it's still snowing

meanwhile -- they are not saying much of anything about the storm for Sunday -- just keep saying we could get whacked..

my shoulder and neck usually acts up about 3 days prior to a storm coming in -- at the moment it's twinging fairly good, most likely because of the current snowfall -- will up date you by Friday as to how bad the Sunday storm will be according to my pain factor

[skypilot]

10. 1-3 inches?

And you're already up to 4-5???

My word for the day: DAMMIT!!!

[SheilaT]

11. In defense of weather forecasters,

there's a certain amount of unavoidable imprecision, since there's never any way of knowing EXACTLY what will happen or what's going on in the upper atmosphere.

We had an ice-storm here in the Kansas City area the first week of the month, and the forecasters had it exactly right. It was truly astonishing, because weather forecasting here is less accurate than other places I've lived because of the exact geography and the way weather masses tend to meet right here.

To get a respect for how hard it is, and to appreciate how useful a forecast of "from 4 to 18 inches of snow" actually is, read Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson or The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin. The first is about the hurricane that nearly destroyed Galveston, Texas in 1900, the second about a blizzard that struck the upper Midwest on January 12, 1888. In both cases there was little or no warning of what was to happen, and in both cases many died.

But I do hope the forecasts of a couple of inches of snow for DC are quite off, and they get some kind of record-setting amount and the only people who have the stamina to brave the elements are the protesters. Keep warm y'all!

[skypilot]

13. I know it's difficult but...

...it's either cuss out Mother Nature or cuss out the weather man. I'd rather have a go at the weather man (or woman). I know what he looks like and I can get a good visual of him in my head as I piss and moan and think bad thoughts.