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Draconigena

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Still soggy and raining here.
Forecast for this morning was 30% chance of light snow showers. For here, the rule of thumb has always been that unless it is 40% or higher, it ain't gonna happen. What we had was continuous snow almost all day, and when the temp got just above freezing, that turned to continuous light rain. Now anyone with any weather sense knows that "showers" come from cumuliform clouds and "continuous" comes from stratiform clouds. The two are totally different weather systems and only mix when you have an occluded front. Are the weather guessers really so stupid that they didn't even know which type of cloud was going to be here?
 

Lady Sarah

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Forecast for this morning was 30% chance of light snow showers. For here, the rule of thumb has always been that unless it is 40% or higher, it ain't gonna happen. What we had was continuous snow almost all day, and when the temp got just above freezing, that turned to continuous light rain. Now anyone with any weather sense knows that "showers" come from cumuliform clouds and "continuous" comes from stratiform clouds. The two are totally different weather systems and only mix when you have an occluded front. Are the weather guessers really so stupid that they didn't even know which type of cloud was going to be here?
You know they only do an educated guess, right?

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Lady Sarah

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Sarah, take the word "educated" out of your sentence and I will agree with you. I used to be a meteorologist and "educated" means you know the difference.
I wonder how many of today's meaty urologists spent more than a semester in meteorology class in high school. I know that's all I had, but then I don't profess to know the weather from day to day.

The pun is intended towards the ones that are no more right than Punxotawny Phil.

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Draconigena

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Here, all 3 local channels give a different forecast.
I am amused as all hell at the local TV stations, all of whom claim the weather person is a "meteorologist." I think one of them actually went to school, but the buxom blonde who always points to the wrong thing and describes it as something happening halfway across the country hasn't got more than an eighth grade education (if even that much - she probably got that job by XXXing the producer).
 

Lady Sarah

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I saw one (an old man) laughing about hurricane Katrina. I sent him an email about it. 2 months later, he was replaced.

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Draconigena

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If I still had my cat "Monster", I'd feed that oversized rat to him.
Actually, I feel sorry for him. When I was a child (yesterday? No, when I was knee-high to a grasshopper), the groundhog was real. Now they have a pet that lives in a cage all the time and he gets brought out only on Feebelary 2nd (odd how that's exactly six weeks before the calendar says Spring starts), and they expose him to a zillion candlepower of bright lights, so of course he's going to see his shadow, then all those TV idiots claim there will be six more weeks of winter. The whole things is stupid.
 

The Cromwell

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Actually, I feel sorry for him. When I was a child (yesterday? No, when I was knee-high to a grasshopper), the groundhog was real. Now they have a pet that lives in a cage all the time and he gets brought out only on Feebelary 2nd (odd how that's exactly six weeks before the calendar says Spring starts), and they expose him to a zillion candlepower of bright lights, so of course he's going to see his shadow, then all those TV idiots claim there will be six more weeks of winter. The whole things is stupid.
Absolutely, they need to pay more attention to the wooly worms in the fall.
 

Lady Sarah

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Monster would catch and eat squirrels, rabbits, and anything else he could catch. He looked like a small bobcat.

As for the oversized rat they haul out to predict the weather, I'm surprised PETA doesn't show up.

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AndriaD

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High class chip eater Eh! :D

You betcha! I don't really eat much junk food, so I want the best! -- if I sit down as I did last night with some chips and dip, I munch for about 10 minutes or so, then I get bored with it and put it away. Vaping fixed a lot of my compulsive snacking, since I don't have to endure smokelessness till the next TV commercial -- I just sit there and vape. :D

But strangely, Wise makes better corn chips than name brand Fritos... they're thinner, a lot of them are "puffy" the way some potato chips are, and they're a good bit saltier too. Nom.

Andria
 

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