It's raining, it's pouring
… Or rather it was last night.
This totally threw me off, when I realized that the weatherman was right.
Yesterday, when driving to Uni the weatherman said that the day would start out sunny and clear. That wasn’t too hard to tell, because I was squinting into the sun as he said this. Then he said that in the afternoon there would be showers and thunderstorms. That I was very cynical about since I find predictions of this sort to be notoriously bad.
Oftentimes they say that there will be rain all week, and there isn’t a cloud in the sky the entire time. Sometimes it is just the opposite.
The only things that I find they are somewhat accurate about are the daily highs/lows, and predicting that a snowstorm is coming. So once winter is gone, I pretty much ignore whatever they have to say, because it is usually very, very wrong.
Because of this I ended up downloading a Doppler radar widget for my computer, so I can make my own weather predictions about if it will rain, snow, or be clear in the next few hours. With the help of that I usually find that I am just as good, if not better, at predicting the weather than the weatherman himself.
But yesterday I didn’t bother to take a look at my computer, so I was surprised to hear the first pitter-patter of rain falling on my house. I was so surprised that they actually made an accurate prediction, that I decided to dedicate my blog post to it!
— Deren Kudeki