On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:00 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the risk of becoming OT ... as a fellow Floridian ...
I'm a former Floridian (Tampa and Palm Bay). I do a better job of predicting weather, including hurricanes, than the TV weather folks and in some cases NOAA and NHC. A big pet peeve of mine. During the winter the dew point might be, say, 38° F. The local TV station will predict "hard freeze for Austin" which involves me bringing in plants which I know I don't have to do. The temperature can't drop below the dew point and during periods of static weather the dew point isn't going to change drastically in a few hours. The next morning the same station will say, "The low last night in Austin was 39°." WTH? Where's the apology for their wrong forecast just 8 hours before? I could go on, but I don't want to drag this list completely off topic. I think the old maxim of "if it bleeds it leads" applies to weather. The masses want to hear about disaster and not "oh, the storm is going to miss us by 100 miles". John -- John Mayson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Austin, Texas, USA ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
