When it rains ...

[Cajunfanatico]

If you laid weathermen end to end, they'd form a complete circle.

[jllanclos]

Well Dugas came out swinging.....Weathermen are just plain terrible at their craft. I know I've mentioned that in tons of my posts, so you can understand that I despise them. It's a crap shoot and they have not a clue at what to predict. I LAUGH at every "Extended" forecast given each week. I've seen the Weather projections directly effect football crowds because of their blindfolded forecast.

My honest opinion is to get rid of all weather people and just have satellites. No one giving percentages and the rest of the crazy jargon. Just keep an active radar channel available at all times for people to use and make their own educational guess.

Thursday night before the girls' regional, there was virtually a 100% chance of rain Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Not. a. drop.

Let's get to tomorrow and see what happens.

[HOUCajun]

Hourly models show after 1 or 2pm, rain chances are very low

[scotto_25]

Thursday night before the girls' regional, there was virtually a 100% chance of rain Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Not. a. drop.

Let's get to tomorrow and see what happens.

They should play the local weather on Comedy Central

[DieHard1280]

They should play the local weather on Comedy Central

Then, it wouldn't be "local" weather.

[Turbine]

how about single elimination? or 7 inning games?

UL has won a few lately in the 8th and after.

[HoustonCajun]

Thursday night before the girls' regional, there was virtually a 100% chance of rain Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Not. a. drop.

Let's get to tomorrow and see what happens.

A Weatherman is the only job I can think of where you can screw up everyday and have job security. There is no accountability and no apologies for poor forecasts that can screw up plans and activities.

[Cajunjeb]

I do subscribe to the "meteorology has the lowest turnover rate" logic, however living in Houston, I can say they nailed this current storm correctly. If this crap keeps up, I am going to get a canoe, just in case...

[CrazyCajun]

Different areas of the country are harder/easier to forecast. We are so close to the gulf it's makes forecasting a lot harder. A lot of different variables when dealing with warm water and the coast as opposed to just over a landmass.

[scotto_25]

Storming on and off in New Iberia. Rains for 10 minutes then sunshine for 15-20 min. The weather doesn't know what the weather is gonna do. How does a Weatherguesser?

[CajunJack55]

A Weatherman is the only job I can think of where you can screw up everyday and have job security. There is no accountability and no apologies for poor forecasts that can screw up plans and activities.

They don't "screw up everyday" and they should not have to apologize. They work on probabilities and they work with what they have. There is a lot of information still missing in the models and unless someone comes up with some crazy new advances in mathematics or statistical mechanics, these rough probabilities are the best we can do. They are trying to predict the future.

If you want to blame someone for screwing up plans then blame mother nature/God.

[CajunJack55]

I do subscribe to the "meteorology has the lowest turnover rate" logic, however living in Houston, I can say they nailed this current storm correctly. If this crap keeps up, I am going to get a canoe, just in case...

It's been brutal,