Ultimate Job

[AJ]

The ultimate job just has to be Meteorology. Where else can you be correct only half of the time and still collect a rather respectable pay check? A couple weeks ago they said rain for us here in the desert. We got 3" of snow. Friday through Saturday morning they called for 10-20" of snow at the pass and 6-8" in town. The pass got a dusting. We had rain. The only time the weather person is close is when they are recapping the weather from that day on the nightly news.

[OUTSIDER]

Exactley, the storm that has been pounding the mid west has now moved into west virginia and PA, they said an inch maybe a little more....well 5 inches later and still falling and now warnings until tommrow 6am. I could tell with the storm that we were gonna get a good bit of snow.

[LETMGROW]

Sometimes the recaps aren't even correct. These people should at least have a window in their office so they can see what is happening. LOL!

[wtnhunt]

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The only time the weather person is close is when they are recapping the weather from that day on the nightly news.

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Funny thing is, sometimes even then they get it wrong .

[HarvDog]

No kidding...how do you get that job?

[MUDRUNNER]

We were supposed to get 4-6" of snow Saturday night according to the local news...we ended up with about 1 1/2".I definately don't plan my hunting trips around the weather anymore.

[DU_man_84]

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Where else can you be correct only half of the time and still collect a rather respectable pay check?

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heck they they can be wrong 99% of the time and still get that paycheck, they always got that 1% to fall back on, but one meterologist i respect is Tom Skilling no matter where i hear the weather from, fox, weather channel, skilling always seems to hit it pretty close on the nose

[Ohiobucks]

I've said that all along about the weather guys here in central Ohio. "Hmmm, got to put together a forecast, I think I'll call Indianapolis and see what it's doing there...."

[Shaun_300]

Tell me about it! I think about that all the time. I don't even think they're right half the time here.

[jbeck]

Ok, I have the answer. We can start a RT weather channel. LOL we'll just have Members starting in washington and california notifying Montana and wyoming what's coming. They can notiy the mid west, you can let us in the east know what and when.

*I'm betting we get more accurate readings then the weather channel.

[Jeramie]

I hear ya AJ! We were suppose to get 8" this past weekend. We were dreading it because of the severe ice storm the week before....

It rained for a little while.... That was it. I was SO happy. Thats one of the few times I didn't mind them being wrong.

[unioncountyslayer]

Man, you're doing good if you get it half the time. Not sure the ones around here get it right that much.

[Leo]

Even when they get it right they don't get credit for an accurate prediction.

Ultimate job? Thankless is more like it You better really like weather in that line of work. You're gonna get sent to the most likely hurricane strike areas. Blamed for not predicting a tornado that levels someones house. Or blamed for not sensing the coming of the next flood.

[doughboy1956]

I think they tape it at the start of the Month and play it over and over.

[arrow32]

They never get it right around here it seems like. Not even simi-close.