Wilsons Sandbox

Posted: **Mon Mar 19, 2001 8:33 am**

Am I the only one in the country that has noticed that the talking weather heads have completely lost any forecasting ability they ever had when they adopted Doppler Radar? Apparently they have abandoned all the conventional weather forecasting tools and gone to watching the Doppler downloads. When they see a cloud halfway across the country, they predict rain, snow, hail, frogs, dogs and cats, or some other bazaar catastrophe that may fall out of those clouds when they arrive in your area. Then nothing happens. We are experiencing a five hundred year drought in Florida, yet if half the rain that has been predicted would have materialized, I'd be on the Boston Whaler list instead of the KLR list. These goddamned idiots predicted and inch of rain (all day) for our WDSRC Dual Sport ride yesterday, so we outfitted ourselves with rain gear and went out to face the music. When we got there, there was no rain, but it was cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. Next they predicted an all day rain of another inch or so today. This morning they even called it a 100% chance to rain ALL day. None of them have the sense to look away from their Doppler screens and out the friggin' window to see that it isn't raining. 100% chance of rain means its RAINING NOW! After that fiasco in the Northeast, I thought they would surely change their tactics. WRONG. They are damned determined to continue use of the Doppler Radar in place of the tried and tested, more accurate crystal ball of yesteryear. The one thing they do with fairly good accuracy is come on fifteen minutes after a tornado hits and show us it's storm track. We all need to write to our local weather person and ask them to please rerun last year's weather programs so we can make plans. -- bierdo on a Mac warmed up in Hell

Posted: **Mon Mar 19, 2001 8:35 am**

I'll drink to that! -----Original Message----- From: Dan Oaks [mailto:bierdo@...] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 8:34 AM To: KLR Group Subject: [DSN_klr650] NKLR %*#$@ Weather Forecasting Am I the only one in the country that has noticed that the talking weather heads have completely lost any forecasting ability they ever had when they adopted Doppler Radar? Apparently they have abandoned all the conventional weather forecasting tools and gone to watching the Doppler downloads. When they see a cloud halfway across the country, they predict rain, snow, hail, frogs, dogs and cats, or some other bazaar catastrophe that may fall out of those clouds when they arrive in your area. Then nothing happens. We are experiencing a five hundred year drought in Florida, yet if half the rain that has been predicted would have materialized, I'd be on the Boston Whaler list instead of the KLR list. These goddamned idiots predicted and inch of rain (all day) for our WDSRC Dual Sport ride yesterday, so we outfitted ourselves with rain gear and went out to face the music. When we got there, there was no rain, but it was cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. Next they predicted an all day rain of another inch or so today. This morning they even called it a 100% chance to rain ALL day. None of them have the sense to look away from their Doppler screens and out the friggin' window to see that it isn't raining. 100% chance of rain means its RAINING NOW! After that fiasco in the Northeast, I thought they would surely change their tactics. WRONG. They are damned determined to continue use of the Doppler Radar in place of the tried and tested, more accurate crystal ball of yesteryear. The one thing they do with fairly good accuracy is come on fifteen minutes after a tornado hits and show us it's storm track. We all need to write to our local weather person and ask them to please rerun last year's weather programs so we can make plans. -- bierdo on a Mac warmed up in Hell Visit the KLR650 archives at http://www.listquest.com/lq/search.html?ln=klr650 Support Dual Sport News... dsneditor@... Let's keep this list SPAM free! Visit our site at http://www.egroups.com/group/DSN_klr650 To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DSN_klr650-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

Posted: **Mon Mar 19, 2001 11:43 am**

You nailed one of my biggest gripes!!!! What other job (not counting politics) allows so many screwups? Of all their missed predictions, not once have I ever heard a weatherperson own up to blowing it. Up here in Michigan, if we get an inch of snow, all the tv and radio stations have their "Storm Teams" out reporting every few minutes what you would guess by their reports and bulletins to be the STORM OF THE CENTURY. They can't predict for 24 hours in advance, yet they report on what the weather will be like for the next 7 days (changed hourly). Like you said, they do have a pretty good track record of reporting what the weather did yesterday. Don Detloff Fair Haven, MI A14 -- In DSN_klr650@y..., Dan Oaks wrote:

> Am I the only one in the country that has noticed that the talking > weather heads have completely lost any forecasting ability they ever

had

> when they adopted Doppler Radar? > > Apparently they have abandoned all the conventional weather

forecasting

> tools and gone to watching the Doppler downloads. When they see a

cloud

> halfway across the country, they predict rain, snow, hail, frogs,

dogs

> and cats, or some other bazaar catastrophe that may fall out of

those

> clouds when they arrive in your area. Then nothing happens. > > We are experiencing a five hundred year drought in Florida, yet if

half

> the rain that has been predicted would have materialized, I'd be on

the

> Boston Whaler list instead of the KLR list. > > These goddamned idiots predicted and inch of rain (all day) for our > WDSRC Dual Sport ride yesterday, so we outfitted ourselves with rain > gear and went out to face the music. When we got there, there was no > rain, but it was cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. > > Next they predicted an all day rain of another inch or so today.

This

> morning they even called it a 100% chance to rain ALL day. None of

them

> have the sense to look away from their Doppler screens and out the > friggin' window to see that it isn't raining. 100% chance of rain

means

> its RAINING NOW! > > After that fiasco in the Northeast, I thought they would surely

change

> their tactics. WRONG. They are damned determined to continue use of

the

> Doppler Radar in place of the tried and tested, more accurate

crystal

> ball of yesteryear. > > The one thing they do with fairly good accuracy is come on fifteen > minutes after a tornado hits and show us it's storm track. > > We all need to write to our local weather person and ask them to

please

> rerun last year's weather programs so we can make plans. > > -- > bierdo > on a Mac warmed up in Hell

Posted: **Mon Mar 19, 2001 12:59 pm**

Don Detloff wrote:

> You nailed one of my biggest gripes!!!! What other job (not counting > politics) allows so many screwups? > > Of all their missed predictions, not once have I ever heard a > weatherperson own up to blowing it. > > Up here in Michigan, if we get an inch of snow, all the tv and radio > stations have their "Storm Teams" out reporting every few minutes what > you would guess by their reports and bulletins to be the STORM OF THE > CENTURY. > > They can't predict for 24 hours in advance, yet they report on what > the weather will be like for the next 7 days (changed hourly). > > Like you said, they do have a pretty good track record of reporting > what the weather did yesterday.

+++++++ I take it all back Don. It actually drizzled here for 15 minutes before noon! I noticed it by looking out the window when I heard the weather head saying, "Better watch out! There's a nasty damaging storm passing through the Saint Cloud area." What the fuck are they smoking? I think they've been watching Pat Roberts too much. He's predicted the end of the world several times and he can't even get the right millennium; and he says that's with the help of God! What chance do the weather heads have? At least he has the good sense to deny he ever said such shit when it doesn't come to pass. -- bierdo PS: I enjoy my Netscape spell checker to no end. It just suggested that the correct spelling for Roberts might be "Robbers".

Posted: **Mon Mar 19, 2001 1:19 pm**

Hey guys, you should think yourself lucky that you dont live in England, they just about always get it wrong!. In 1987 the forecastor came on and said that someone had written to the met office concerning very high winds,he assured us with a patronizing story that if we lived in the carribean that may be so,you guessed it England was flattened by severe winds,houses,trees the whole shooting match! In fact when i am taking the klr for a zap,if the forecast is fine,i then take waterproofs, Gary

----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Oaks" To: "KLR Group" DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 2:34 PM Subject: [DSN_klr650] NKLR %*#$@ Weather Forecasting > Am I the only one in the country that has noticed that the talking > weather heads have completely lost any forecasting ability they ever had > when they adopted Doppler Radar? > > Apparently they have abandoned all the conventional weather forecasting > tools and gone to watching the Doppler downloads. When they see a cloud > halfway across the country, they predict rain, snow, hail, frogs, dogs > and cats, or some other bazaar catastrophe that may fall out of those > clouds when they arrive in your area. Then nothing happens. > > We are experiencing a five hundred year drought in Florida, yet if half > the rain that has been predicted would have materialized, I'd be on the > Boston Whaler list instead of the KLR list. > > These goddamned idiots predicted and inch of rain (all day) for our > WDSRC Dual Sport ride yesterday, so we outfitted ourselves with rain > gear and went out to face the music. When we got there, there was no > rain, but it was cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. > > Next they predicted an all day rain of another inch or so today. This > morning they even called it a 100% chance to rain ALL day. None of them > have the sense to look away from their Doppler screens and out the > friggin' window to see that it isn't raining. 100% chance of rain means > its RAINING NOW! > > After that fiasco in the Northeast, I thought they would surely change > their tactics. WRONG. They are damned determined to continue use of the > Doppler Radar in place of the tried and tested, more accurate crystal > ball of yesteryear. > > The one thing they do with fairly good accuracy is come on fifteen > minutes after a tornado hits and show us it's storm track. > > We all need to write to our local weather person and ask them to please > rerun last year's weather programs so we can make plans. > > -- > bierdo > on a Mac warmed up in Hell > > > Visit the KLR650 archives at > http://www.listquest.com/lq/search.html?ln=klr650 > Support Dual Sport News... dsneditor@... > Let's keep this list SPAM free! > > Visit our site at http://www.egroups.com/group/DSN_klr650 > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > DSN_klr650-unsubscribe@egroups.com > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >

Posted: **Mon Mar 19, 2001 2:20 pm**

When I lived in Denver in the early 60's (1960's) our weatherman crashed in a snow storm 30 minutes after he announce no chance of snow. Shit happens. -- bierdo gtx wrote:

> Hey guys, you should think yourself lucky that you dont live in England, > they just about always get it wrong!. > In 1987 the forecastor came on and said that someone had written to the met > office concerning very high winds,he assured us with a patronizing story > that if we lived in the carribean that may be so,you guessed it England was > flattened by severe winds,houses,trees the whole shooting match! > In fact when i am taking the klr for a zap,if the forecast is fine,i then > take waterproofs, > Gary >

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Posted: **Mon Mar 19, 2001 4:34 pm**

--- In DSN_klr650@y..., "gtx" wrote:

> Hey guys, you should think yourself lucky that you dont live in

England,

> they just about always get it wrong!.

How can they get English weather wrong? All they have to say is that it's going to rain, and they're 100% accurate. Just kidding, I know England gets sunshine every now and then. "Swede"

Posted: **Mon Mar 19, 2001 4:39 pm**

Now the forcasters in Arizona have a good track record, They could say it would be sunny every day of the year and be 95 percent correct. Timan -----Original Message----- From: gtx [mailto:gtxapache@...] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 6:20 PM To: DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [DSN_klr650] NKLR %*#$@ Weather Forecasting Hey guys, you should think yourself lucky that you dont live in England, they just about always get it wrong!. In 1987 the forecastor came on and said that someone had written to the met office concerning very high winds,he assured us with a patronizing story that if we lived in the carribean that may be so,you guessed it England was flattened by severe winds,houses,trees the whole shooting match! In fact when i am taking the klr for a zap,if the forecast is fine,i then take waterproofs, Gary

Posted: **Mon Mar 19, 2001 5:01 pm**

--- In DSN_klr650@y..., Dan Oaks wrote:

> When I lived in Denver in the early 60's (1960's) our weatherman

crashed in a

> snow storm 30 minutes after he announce no chance of snow. Shit

happens.

> > -- > bierdo

Now they're bass ackwards, if there's a 20% chance of snow or rain: grab your gear, if it's an 80% chance: don't worry about it. Where I'm at, I can look at the Sangre de Cristos in the morning and tell whether the weather's gonna act up or not. Then again this is Colorado, if you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes or ride 5 miles - it'll change. When I was little, my Dad would tell me a story of a fur trader on the Santa Fe Trail headed through our area to Raton Pass. The trader was moving along when allofasudden one of his oxen keeled over from heat exhaustion. He unhitched that one from the yoke, and walked back to get his spare. By the time he got back to the front of the cart with the spare ox, he found the other had froze to death. "Swede"

Posted: **Mon Mar 19, 2001 6:30 pm**

I actually saw the sun in London, once. 1978, I think it was! But I was probably pissed. -- bierdo Swede wrote:

> --- In DSN_klr650@y..., "gtx" wrote: > > Hey guys, you should think yourself lucky that you dont live in > England, > > they just about always get it wrong!. > > How can they get English weather wrong? All they have to say is that > it's going to rain, and they're 100% accurate. Just kidding, I know > England gets sunshine every now and then. "Swede"

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