Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Weather Forecast

I'm always amused at the mock precision of the "extended forecasts" by some of the weather services. For instance, on May 29, with the wedding 11 days away, they are saying that it will rain on June 8 and be sunny with a 0% chance of rain on the day of our wedding, June 9.

I know that forecasts more than 4-5 days out are really no better than drawing bingo numbers, but I'll chronicle the Accuweather.com and other services' forecasts as the day approaches...

UPDATED 5/30 -- forecast has already changed drastically from yesterday...see below
UPDATED 5/31 -- Accuweather changed next Friday's forecast high by 22 degrees since yesterday!
UPDATED 6/1 -- Accuweather changed Saturday's forecast high from 75 to 63 since yesterday, and Friday's high from 86 to 76. They're all over the map...

(Forecasts as of today at the beginning of each line, followed by previous forecasts)

ACCORDING TO ACCUWEATHER.COM:

Friday, June 8
As of 6/01: 76 and cloudy
As of 5/31: 86 and partly cloudy
As of 5/30: 64 and sunny
As of 5/29: 67 and rain

Saturday, June 9
As of 6/01: 63 and rain
As of 5/31: 75 and partly cloudy
As of 5/30: 80 and rain
As of 5/29: 64 and sunny


ACCORDING TO THE WEATHER CHANNEL

Friday, June 8
As of 6/01: 80 and thunderstorms
As of 5/31: 81 and thunderstorms
As of 5/31: 75 and rain
As of 5/30: 74 and mostly cloudy
As of 5/30: 77 and rain

Saturday, June 9
As of 6/01: 80 and sunny
As of 5/31: 81 and sunny
As of 5/31: 79 and mostly cloudy


Tom

1 comment:

Jeremy The Keeper said...

Oh my starz, this should be priceless. About time somebody took those weather "forecasters" to task!