Brevity by Dan Thompson for April 20, 2024

Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.

He got a snow job.

Now it’s all digital, they can change anything they want. Did we say it would be sunny? That’s not what the website says now. (Sucker!)

They are, however, much more accurate than they used to be. Of course, weather can still be unpredictable, especially in Spring.

cold and snow in NE Minnesota

He’s such a blow hard.

He’s gonna say a hail mary that it’ll sleet.

We were on a campout and I checked the weather radar. The area had been under drought for weeks. The storm coming was one of legend. The radar image was black in the middle because the programmers had never assigned a color for that storm severity. I yelled ABORT, we loaded up, and it started to rain. There was standing water on the highway by the time we left the park. It was still raining at noon the next day and two states had 8-12" of rain.

still all guess work based on models of past patterns

and then he’ll heartily declare, hail, fellow, well met…

Did you hear about the weatherman who was always wrong on his predictions? He moved to another state and applied to another TV station. When asked why he moved,he replied “The weather didn’t agree with me!”