Weather rant

slowbird

slowbird

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Why is it that Meterologists get one of the few jobs where taking a wild guess is an acceptable "day at the office"

I checked the weather network atlest 6 times in the few hours leading up to me leaving for work at 9pm ish.

Here I sit at work, and I glance up at the CP24 station to see they are calling for rain tonight. I go on the weathernetwork site and they are calling for clear skies all tonight and tomorrow morning with an only 20% chance of precipitation.

I check the weather radar and there's this HUGE monster of a storm bearing down on Toronto. Do these guys know something I don't? Is that weather goona take a 90 degree turn in the next bit?

I used to work near the weathernetwork building and I contemplated taking a steamy dump on their doorstep many times.
 
We've been trying to fix the drainage around the house. Every time they dig out the ditch it pours rain, collapsing it and filling it with water. Fun Wow.
 
Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I didn't check before coming in Monday night and luckily it had stopped before I left work. So I actually checked last night before coming in. It looks like it should be ok for me though, I don't get off until 6am and it looks like it'll be done by then.
 
Yea I'm off at 6:30am. hopefully it doesn't rain or atleast stops by then
 
Monsoon is in effect here for the past 35 minutes or so. Twenty minutes of power outage, satellite TV is still out. Incredibly heavy rain, some hailstones, non-stop sheet lightning with rolling thunder, plenty of lightning bolts with nearly instant sharp thunderclap follow-up, and one lightning strike on a tree right across the road, so far.
 
not sure how you should take this but ........

Watches

City of Toronto
12:39 AM EDT Wednesday 08 June 2011
Severe thunderstorm watch for
City of Toronto continued

2 cm hail, wind gusts to 90 km/h and heavy downpours possible tonight.

This is an alert to the potential development of severe thunderstorms with large hail, damaging winds or heavy rainfall..Monitor weather conditions and listen for updated bulletins.

A northeast to southwest line of thunderstorms through the Fergus area is moving southeastward across Southern Ontario tonight. The main threats are hail to 2 centimetres, heavy rainfall and the potential for gusts to 90 km/h.
 
Well, that watch was plenty accurate enough. At one point the rain was overflowing the rain gutters on my house. That's twice this week so far. At least my trees are still standing, so far. Sheet lightning and rolling thunder has literally been constant without even a second's break for the past 45 minutes now, though the worst of the bolt lightning and thunderclaps have moved on.
 
LOL....it's amazing how the forecast went from Clear tonight and tommorrow morning...to Severe Thunderstorm watch!!

Even now it's saying a 40% risk of thundershowers!

40%!?!? My work is shaking with the thunder!!!

Must be nice to have a job where you can be wrong a lot and not get fired.
 
People remember when the weather forecast is wrong more than they do when its right. Its a very complicated job that requires a fair bit of schooling in at least math, physics, science and geography. Its a good job, new meteorologists tend to make $30-50K and the ones with experience and in good positions tend to make double. What leads to lots of "why are they wrong", is they dont predict the weather for all locations in detail, that would be too hard but mostly way too time consuming. They predict main areas, and around airports specificly, and try to make quick predictions from there about the surrounding areas. If you want a really good source of weather predictions that a lot of local weather stations get their info from, use the following:

http://www.flightplanning.navcanada...nconnu&Page=forecast-observation&TypeDoc=html

1) go to "METAR/TAF" in the top middle (didnt make a direct link in case you wanted to look around)
2) enter in your local airport ID (Toronto is "CYYZ" or google one closer to you)
3) choose plain language (standard is a lot more detailed but you need to learn how to read it lol)
 
It's Canada, our weather is variable, suck it up.

Plus hot humid weather is unpredictable
 
Adamant said:
It's Canada, our weather is variable, suck it up. Plus hot humid weather is unpredictable
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Agreed!!

check the weathernetwork, or environment canada, check the radar yourself.. and then make an informed decision.. on your own..
 
They are investigating claims of a couple tornado's in the hamilton area last night:o
 
Adamant said:
It's Canada, our weather is variable, suck it up.

Plus hot humid weather is unpredictable
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I'm not complaining about the weather, Adamant....read more carefully.

I'm complaining about the weathernetworks inability to make an outrageously predictable forecast. A storm bearing down on Toronto that's the size of GTA isn't an unpredictable situation. It's gonna rain. Guaranteed. Not a 20% chance of precipitation....and they make these horrible "forecasts" all the time.

kiwi said:
Agreed!!

check the weathernetwork, or environment canada, check the radar yourself.. and then make an informed decision.. on your own..
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You're right....I should....and i should know better.

I still rely on them for some sense of what weather might be happening in the next few days...or when weather is coming in from the south and the Cdn radar isn't picking it up.
 
I look out the window & see all this crap I gotta shovel
*sigh*
 
I didn't want to start a new one
 
RockerGuy said:
I look out the window & see all this crap I gotta shovel
*sigh*
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Go get some taco bell ..jarritos and give marcos santiago a pm but make sure you got alumInum shovels cause heard he is rough
 
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