I want to shoot the Weatherman!

KennyKenCan · Oct 8, 2003

I cannot believe that the weather forecasters got it wrong again! Today was suppose to be... Clear, light wind, 75 - 78 degrees. Instead we got... Fog, wind SW @ 15mph, 60 degrees. If these people can demand $150,000 a year, then they should be held liable when they get a forecast soooooooo wrong. I know some of you are going to claim that you can't predict "Mother Nature", but that clause just is not true anymore. With all the tax dollars the people of this country contribute to the weather services, and all the equipment that they have available, they can get the forecasts alot closer they they do! Just an observation and some food for thought. Kenny

NOSLEEP · Oct 8, 2003

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Kenny here in Calgary , the weather forcast is usually wrong. I must add the only forcast that is usually reliable is the one that sounds some thing like this. ..Tonight there will be periods of darkness, the forcast for tomorrow brings increasing chance for periods of sunlight...

SeaMasterZ@aol.com · Oct 8, 2003

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Two thoughts come to mind ... The Weather Rock, hanging from a rope, if its moving its windy, wet its raining, gone, tornado ... and the words NOT RAINING painted on a board, Raining of course in indelible ink ... when it rains, the word NOT gets washed away

hey Kenny, are you in town hall? or county?

JGREGORY · Oct 8, 2003

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Kenny hang in there. It's beautiful here and and I'm only about 40 miles from you as the crow flys. Good weather is coming.

Ralph 123 · Oct 8, 2003

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Kenny, I got your weather here in Boston. Jump on the Shuttle and come up here. We'll go out on the Formula and catch some stripers maybe even Tuna! You can be here in 45 minutes!

KennyKenCan · Oct 8, 2003

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Hey CastawayRay, What would make you think that I'm involved with Town Hall or County Government? I'm just an average John Q. Public type. I just hate having my tax dollars wasted on phony weather forecasting, or anything that is as inacurate as the National Weather Service. If they are going to continue to guess the weather, then it shouldn't come out of taxpayers pockets, just so that the pretty faced forecasters can collect absorbanant salaries! Just watch the Weather Channel for 15 minutes and you will see how the forecasters are more concerned about how their smile looks while they continually flub-up the script, then the acuracy of their reports. Its just an observation, and in my opinion, a big waste of taxpayers money. Kenny

KennyKenCan · Oct 8, 2003

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Hey jgregory, I'm here in NYC and its still foggy and only 69 degrees. Hope your nice weather gets here soon. Kenny

SpinnerBait_Nut · Oct 8, 2003

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I have noticed that myself. How can you mess up when reading from a transponder anyway?

SpinnerBait_Nut · Oct 8, 2003

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Well I have sunny skis and when I just checked, it was 76 outside so I ain't complaining any.

KennyKenCan · Oct 8, 2003

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Oh Ralph, How I would love to take you up on your offer to go to Boston, but with the playoffs going on, it would create alot of tension. Maybe when this baseball thing is over and... ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Yankees Win!! Sorry Ralph, I couldn't resist!?!LoL

Plus my boss would shoot me! Kenny

JGREGORY · Oct 8, 2003

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Kenny, Ray might be confusing you with Me, I'm in Local Government. And trust me the good weather is coming. Unless you get an ocean breeze that keeps your weather the same.

I work in Somerset County NJ right on the Border with Union County, NJ about 40 miles from you. Just came in from a great walk outside.

SeaMasterZ@aol.com · Oct 8, 2003

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whoops, jgregory called that one right, I have a friend up there who is also in finance on the local level, just wondered if you hated finance like she does, lol, no wonder she goes nuts, they pay her a few hundred bucks a day to find TEN CENTS missing, eat the **** dime fer chrissakes!

JGREGORY · Oct 8, 2003

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Where does she work Ray I may know her? And Yeah it can drive you nuts my payroll fund is off by $.46 since June. End of the Quarter adjustment and we had an employee just up and left with no notice, After I had June 2nd pay done.

Still searching for it! I may jsut take the money out of my pocket and put it in.

Fortunately I do mostly Purchasing and I have some great vendors.

11 footer · Oct 8, 2003

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Its like 70 in Boston today, sweat weather

I had a half day of school too, so I got to enjoy it.

gemstone · Oct 10, 2003

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Kenny - In your first post you complain about the Nat. Weather Service, then allude to the weather channel in your second post. These are two different organizations. The NWS is part of the federal gov't. The NWS forecast accuracy is extremely high - if you want an NWS forecast go to the following link - it is the NWS office home page that covers your area. http://www.erh.noaa.gov/okx/ You can get a personalized forecast for the area you area interested in. You can also link to every other NWS web page through the "organization" link, so no matter where you will be boating, fishing you can get an accurate, continuously updated forecast for that area. The Weather Channel is a TV station that has absolutely nothing to do with the NWS or the gov't. They do not use the NWS weather forecasts - they run their own computer model that spits out the forecasts(?) that they carry over the airwaves. As with any media market - they are in it for the money - advertising space and ratings is what it is all about. THe NWS has been consistently rated the best run, most effective gov't agency for quite a few years now. They continue to receive A's from independent watchdog groups, ie - those outside the government. And for this you pay $2.50 a year in taxes. And I can assure you - none of us make $150,000 a year. We only wish

Check us out. I am proud to be a meteorologist employed by the NWS.

mellowyellow · Oct 10, 2003

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well... since u is such a big wig, give us poor ba$tards a few more days of indian summer please

lake erie is WAY colder than it is normally this time of year? why is that?

KennyKenCan · Oct 10, 2003

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gemstone, The NOAA station here near me at Upton NY, is even worse than the weather channel! They did not get the forecast correct or even close, once this summer! And their transmissions are so poor that you can barely figure out what they are talking about, and the web site was down 99% of the time! More continued waste by the National Weather Service, IMHO. Now gemstone, I am not trying to attack you personnally, just trying to point out further government waste of taxpayers dollars! I am sure you are good at what you do, but the public just doesn't see it that way and NOAA needs to make tremendous strides in a forward direction to correct the problems that exist. If they were to improve, I'm sure my viewpoint would change, but in an area that is so dependant on accurate weather forecasting for the security of the local economy, I find these services totally inadaquite(sp?). I'm sure that in SD, where you are, the forecasts are adaquite, but here in the NE USA, these forecasts are horriffic, no matter the source. Kenny

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