The perfect job

Submitted by geoff on Thu, 05/22/2008 at 8:24am.

how do you get fired as a weather forecaster? It appears they are just allowed to make mistakes all day every day. Need a 10-day forecast? Just throw together some random numbers and sunny and rainy icons, and forget about it. Don't worry if its wrong. You have 10-days to change it.

Why do they even bother spending millions of dollars and all these hours on tv and radio telling us what the weather is going to be? Seems like the worst science in all of the sciences.

I have been following the 10-day forecast for the weather this weekend for exactly 10 days now, and it has changed every single day. I wish i could do that at my job!

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by Sean - 4 years ago
Beaverton United States

Member Since: Jan 2007
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Great blog Geoff.

by laura - 4 years ago
Sandy, UT United States

Member Since: Feb 2007
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Maybe it will change tomorrow to be sunny and 80s again.

by geoff - 4 years ago
Fountain Valley, CA United States

Member Since: Jan 2007
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i am really hoping so. we are going camping here in Oregon, and just holding hope until the last hour.

by Jay - 4 years ago
San Jose United States

Member Since: Nov 2006
Member Points: 4266

Yeah...are there still so many variables in the atmosphere that our super computers cant calculate what the temperature is going to be 5 days from now? I guess its like any job where you are predicting the future...you are rarely correct. Look at stock traders, the majority guess wrong and cant beat the market.