Friday, May 8, 2009

Environment Canada: The official weather guessers

Is there any other job in the history of the world that is as easy as a job at environment canada? Where else can you be consistantly wrong and still be employed, all you have to do is say for the next 5 days it is going to be sunny and warm with a chance of showers, and if it is cloudy and cold with rain, everyone just says, well they were wrong again, and nothing happens. If they call for rain and it is sunny, people are happy that they are wrong, but nothing happens. They promote themselves as the most accurate weather forecasters, and yet they aren't accurate at all, they aren't even accurate 50% of the time. How easy a job is that?

The probably of precipitation is 50%, how is that even accurate, how is that not just a guess, if they even say the POP is 5% and it rains, they are correct, how is that right?

Do we even need anyone telling us what the weather is going to do, with the shifts in weather patterns it is more difficult to predict, or guess or roll the weather dice and say what it's going to be like outside. The easier method, hang a string out the window, if the string is wet, it's raining, if the string is flying straight out, it's windy, and if the string is dry, it's sunny.

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