Weather or Not

Sweetpotato, this one's for you....


I should have been a meteorologist. This is apparently the only field of study in which it is acceptable for scientific data to be collected, reported, and... completely wrong! Had I known this I would have taken more classes related to weather in college, how can you fail a test where every answer is someone's best guess?

Take today for example, here we are all prepared for a snow storm, only to awaken to wet yet completely barren sidewalks! Not that I wanted to go trudging about in the sludge, but it would have been a great deal of fun to toss my mongrel into the powdery stuff and watch her flounder about (I am such a good mother.) Furthermore, the cold is only useful for providing a festive atmosphere for the holiday season, but frostbite without a Winter Wonderland....I don't think so.

And I know they can't control the atmospheric pressure, or whatever the hell it is, all I'm saying is don't get our hopes up with these blizzard forecasts if you really have no idea what you're talking about. Seriously, these folks get paid to make stuff up and yet, there are television stations devoted to alerting the country to these pseudo-scientific interpretations of little green blobs on a computer screen. We'd do better to listen to our arthritic relatives, they seem to know when it's gonna rain before the Weather Channel does! What kind of lessons are these forecasters teaching our children - that it's okay to lie if you have a weather map behind you?

The best part is, when they're wrong, the meteorologists can just shun responsibility by virtue of atmospheric conditions beyond their control. Nice. Next time I screw up at work I'm gonna blame Mother Nature and see how far that gets me!