What is your favorite Quote or Saying?

MoKelly · Feb 3, 2021

PILOON said:
He wants to get there before he leaves.
(most drivers now days)

On the opposite side, I’ve always like the quote - “I’ve got nowhere to go, and all day to get there”.

MoKelly

Industrial Toys · Feb 3, 2021

I've always liked (and use) the expression (maybe from Road Warrior) "Into the Future. . .Back"

And of course "a Mystery Wrapped within an Enigma"

reb · Feb 3, 2021

"Only fools and newcomers forecast the weather in (insert state name here)."

I grew up in Colorado and thought that applied there. Then I moved to Arizona and heard it here. Guess it is a universal thing.

/pine · Feb 3, 2021

reb said:
"Only fools and newcomers forecast the weather in (insert state name here)."

I grew up in Colorado and thought that applied there. Then I moved to Arizona and heard it here. Guess it is a universal thing.

People that think that are simply not smart enough to read or listen to the latest forecast...!

MoKelly · Feb 3, 2021

reb said:
"Only fools and newcomers forecast the weather in (insert state name here)."

I grew up in Colorado and thought that applied there. Then I moved to Arizona and heard it here. Guess it is a universal thing.

Reminds me of a famous George Carlin bit —- the weather tonite calls for dark, changing to widely scattered light in the morning!”

MoKelly

Industrial Toys · Feb 3, 2021

I love the way our forecasts are split into time portions to make them sound totally stupid. Snow ending at midnight, then snow!

goeduck · Feb 3, 2021

We could tell by the smell we was headin for h3ll

dnw64 · Feb 3, 2021

buckeyefarmer said:
...thought it strange he had 2 middle names.

You need to get out more.

dnw64 · Feb 3, 2021

/pine said:
People that think that are simply not smart enough to read or listen to the latest forecast...!

I guess there are an awful lot of "dumb" people out there.

Sorry, NOPE. Weather forecasting is a combination of art and science. And art is subjective while science is objective. So you will NEVER get a 100% (or even 75%) every-day-through-the-year weather forecast for more than 6 hours out*. I'm not talking about +/- .1° or +/- 0.01" precip and "mostly cloudy" vs "partly cloudy". I'm talking about +/- 5°, +/- 0.10" and "mostly cloudy" vs "mostly sunny".

*I would LOVE to see data that supports a SINGLE instance. That's right, just one year's worth of a daily forecast by an individual source that is within 75% of their forecast on temperature, precipitation and cloud cover for tomorrow (yup, I relaxed it from 6 hours out to 24 hours for the challenge). I will gladly admit defeat and pay you 100 pesos in the form of clean fill if I am wrong.

Bottom line is, I am 1000% convinced that, while technology can give us a general idea of what to expect in the next couple/few days for weather, there are far too many factors for even modern super computers to account for. I can guarantee that not a single model accounts for the butterfly effect, simply because there is no way that anyone can keep track of every single butterfly, and when, where and how they are flapping their wings. 10-day and 14-day forecasts are about as accurate as a Bingo cage.