You end up with people like a friend of mine in New Jersey saying that weather forecasters don't have a freaking clue when the 48 hour forecast had 6 to 24 inches of snow.
Oct. 27, 11:36 p.m. Updated Federal weather forecasters don't like to overstate things.
Not exact matches
Paraná state, Brazil's second - largest corn producer, has had nearly three weeks without rain, said Marco Antonio
dos Santos, a
forecaster at
weather consultancy Rural Clima.
@VP: No I don't believe Obama or
weather forecasters are idiots for predicting what they
did: but, if they predicted the end of the world and claimed they discovered this with 100 % certainty from a 2000 year old book written by people that thought the earth was flat, Yes I would call them idiots.
I've never actually made a snow angel before — I must put that onto my to
do list next time it snows... and looks like that will be very soon, according to UK
weather forecasters.
When Phyllis shows him the signs of spring, he realizes he is wrong — about the
weather, and about girls
doing a good job as
weather forecasters.
Forecasters Fear El Niño Year What is El Niño — and why
does it affect
weather?
It's what
weather forecasters and hurricane
forecasters do.
If that wasn't the case, economists wouldn't be
doing such a good job of making
weather forecasters look good!
Several days ago, Andy Revkin
did a nice post querying a number of
weather forecasters and researchers about the relative merits of the different forecast models [link], particularly since everyone seemed to be paying attention to the European model (ECMWF) rather than NOAA's GFS model.
I agree this is a ridiculous statement, the
weather forecasters are
doing the best job that they can (even if their bosses in NOAA are playing politics).
Boykoff observed that in the mind of the public, local
weather forecasters — many of whom
do not have a science degree — have as much credibility on climate issues as experts.
I
did find this on MySpace: «I have been spending time working on my hobbies, and figuring out how the
weather really works, much to the chagrin of the camp of modeling based
forecasters.»