Saturday, April 13, 2019

I vow to quit dissing the weather forecaster

Forecasting the weather at the western edge of the lower 48 is more difficult than more easterly locations: what the ocean dominated atmosphere will deliver is known as did deliver just hours or days east of us, making those predictions less variance prone. Also, there is this bit of statistical and comparative data provided by a likely honest (if not entirely unbiased) meteorologist:

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/us/videos/gallery/see-how-meteorologists-stack-up-against-these-professions-for-accuracy-/sharevideo/6025601819001/most_popular

I enjoyed his selection of "other professionals". What about psychics?

MUTTS comic by Patrick McDonnell in Register Guard 4/13/2012