The Weather Channel

[gramps]

says it is clear over Woodbury, Tn. A quick look outside shows overcast at 4500 ft! So much for radar!
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[Sturgis270]

Weatherman wrong? Can't be!

 

[mykeal]

It is clear.

Somewhere up there.

You're just too low - need to get up in the air a bit.

 

[Rancher Will]

I'm sure some on here may believe the National Weather Service in Denver last week was wrong. The NWS published report by the National Weather Service stated that 2013 was the coldest year in Colorado since records have been kept and so far the first six months of 2014 are even colder. Colorado records by the National Weather Service only go back to 1906.

I believe it from our ranch records on both on our ranches. Our ranch records record the actual single coldest winter days happened in the 1960's, but on average the yearly temperature averages, combining summer and winter, are now cooler than the 60's. In 1962 we recorded two nights when the temperture dropped to below minus 50 degrees. We still get a number of nights of minus 40-45 degrees every year, even more often than 40-50 years ago, and more summer nights now with frost on the grass before sunup than we did years ago.

 

[#1rugerman]

They have the weather on the weather channel? Damn around here all you get are storm stories and weather on the eights (its really every once in a while to be preempted by and commercial that they see fit to run)

 

[Pat-inCO]

A quick look outside shows overcast at 4500 ft!
So much for radar!

Even the radar is . . . . inaccurate . . . . around here. Humm . . . . .
I wonder if it is because the NWS people are in concrete bunkers?
It must be, because they obviously do NOT look out the window.

I live one mile form one county boundary and three miles (at 90 degrees) from another.
As such I can easily tell if the radar is correct. The number of times that I see the TV
"radar" display either showing me clear, or raining that it is the exact opposite, is
amazing. In fact the inaccuracy rate is way above 50%.
Yet they say they can give us a seven day forecast. :roll: . :evil: . :roll:

Must be run by democrats. :roll:

 

[Fox Mike]

I go to the NOAA web site and then check the 'radar' section and can predict the weather as well or better than the 'experts'.

 

[FastEd]

I like the National Mosaic Enhanced Radar

It covers the entire US plus all the local radars

http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php

 

[deac45]

I don't know about anywhere else, but around here it seems the weather forecasts just aren't as accurate as they were ten or fifteen years ago. All the local news channels out of Atlanta have the latest and greatest state of the art radar and storm tracking technology yet they still miss it. Used to be, if they said there was a 50% chance of rain tomorrow afternoon you could count on getting rained on at some point in the afternoon. Now, if they give the same prediction, it may not rain until way later in the night or the next morning even. Makes it hard to plan your day outdoors sometimes.

Deac45

 

[Jimbo357mag]

I keep an eye on the local radar and the NOAA satellite of the Caribbean.

http://www.goes.noaa.gov/HURRLOOPS/huvsloop.html

 

[don44]

The Weather Channel has become The Reality Channel. :?

 

[Bullseye57]

That reminds me of this "Broadside" cartoon I saw once about a ship's captain asking the weatherman to confirm his forecast.

R,
Bullseye

 

[Rick Courtright]

Hi,

I once sent off for a correspondence course to become a meteorologist. Part of the price included some "supplies" required for the course.

When the package arrived, I opened it eagerly. Inside was a shiny new penny, with instructions "Heads--rain, 50% chance; tails--no rain, 50% chance."

Add 'em up it's 100% chance there will either be rain or no rain. And it's been dead on every time I've used it!

Rick C

 

[Jimbo357mag]

My favorite weatherman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2HpB5CGfLQ

 

[toysoldier]

We take weather very seriously here, and I have no complaints about the forcasts. The radar is spot-on, with the major channels offering enhanced doppler radar to pinpoint potential tornadic activity. What they show matches what I can see from the highest point of land on my property---the top of my septic mound.