Weather prediction fail: Yes, this is a blizzard out there.
Our illustrious weather forecasters today had "a few flurries and 1-2cm of snow as the forecast today. Supposed to be a nice day.
This was updated at 12:30pm as presumably some weather forecaster looked outside and happened to notice theres a fullscale blizzard happening with zero visibility. The blizzard actually started before noon. Took them 30mins to even notice apparently. Snow accumulation so thick right now it was a challenge to see where the road is vs snowbank. Windshield heater on, every wiper on continuously. My recommendation is leave for home right now. Rush hour has definitely started. Word to the wise, if buddy in front of you is driving right off the road don't follow. I saw somebody do this.
In case anybody is keeping score they totally pooched yesterdays forecast as well as there was extreme wind all over the region and drifting snow like crazy. They had 30km winds pegged. It was more like 70 around Leduc. In the worst instance a towtruck was seen getting a towtruck out of the ditch on QE. An absolute mess all over the region and they didn't forecast it. QE was a parking lot for hours.
Hey, we're a winter city. give up some half ass reliable forecasts.
Really they've been dead wrong all week.
Last edited by Replacement: 12-05-2012 at 02:33 PM.
My thumbs go up to the personalities, because they are about as accurate as the meterologists and didn't wast their time studying something that people can judge by looking out their window.
Again, look out your window. Don't watch forecasts. Unless you are less than 7 years old you should know by now that the weather people are hardly accurate.
Again, look out your window. Don't watch forecasts. Unless you are less than 7 years old you should know by now that the weather people are hardly accurate.
Unfortunately I can't look out my window for what's supposed to happen tonight.
Then look at the radar and make predictions for yourself.
Because I didn't go to school and don't get paid to do that.
edit: But it is funny that you say that because my boss did that and said it's going to lighten up and pass over by late afternoon. I called his bluff but it already looks alot lighter out there lol.
Why don't we leave the predictions to the people that were trained to make them.
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Originally Posted by Reimer
Because I didn't go to school and don't get paid to do that.
edit: But it is funny that you say that because my boss did that and said it's going to lighten up and pass over by late afternoon. I called his bluff but it already looks alot lighter out there lol.
Have you guys seen what the people that went to School for this actually do? It's a freaking disgrace that they can call themselves professionals.
That's like a payroll clerk paying 30% of the employees one pay period and then 85% the next time, only to pat themselves on the back and say in the last month more than 100% of people have gotten paid.
Well they've done it again. No mention of of snow at all in the forcast until maybe tonight but it's coming down over here on the east side of Edmonton.
Well they've done it again. No mention of of snow at all in the forcast until maybe tonight but it's coming down over here on the east side of Edmonton.
Again, look out your window. Don't watch forecasts. Unless you are less than 7 years old you should know by now that the weather people are hardly accurate.
My dad used to tell me when I was a kid.."you keep lying like that son, and you'll grow up to be either a politician or a weatherman."
For individuals whose job is predict the weather, basically quantifying a complex phenomenon subject to chaos theory, I think weather forecasters do a pretty good job.
For individuals whose job is predict the weather, basically quantifying a complex phenomenon subject to chaos theory, I think weather forecasters do a pretty good job.
So reporting a snowstorm advisory on weather websites at 12:30 yesterday a full 40mins after the intense snowstorm had started is doing a pretty good job reporting a complex phenomenon?
Look in the sky, its big fluffy white stuff happening thick, all over, and can't see a block. Yeah, its a snowstorm.
A reasonable expectation of their whole reason for being is reporting that weather BEFORE and not AFTER the storm onset.
Any of us get better "weather predicting" looking out the window.
The weather advisories in this prairie province are a complete and utter joke and they are due to cutbacks, staffing, and facility. In a province that committed to do more after the 1987 tragedy and several tragedies since.
AS weather systems get more intense over the globe, and of course on the prairies we require much better prognostications and advisories then we are getting.
An advisory ISN'T a warning after we setdown in Kansas...
Last edited by Replacement: 12-06-2012 at 02:15 PM.
Have you guys seen what the people that went to School for this actually do? It's a freaking disgrace that they can call themselves professionals.
That's like a payroll clerk paying 30% of the employees one pay period and then 85% the next time, only to pat themselves on the back and say in the last month more than 100% of people have gotten paid.
OMG! people can't predict the future with 100% certainty! Off with their heads!
