Trust the groundhog
For days, there's been non-stop hype by hysterical TV weather-people warning the NYC metro area about the terrible impending snow storm coming Friday night. News cameras showed panicked people rushing to Home Depot to buy shovels and snow-blowers. Others crowded into supermarkets buying up all the milk and bread. (If you're preparing for a disaster, why buy the two most perishable items in the store?) Anyway, I woke up on Saturday morning and there wasn't a single snowflake on the ground.
Maybe they should replace these overpaid weather guys and gals with a groundhog? At least Punxsutawney Phil is right about 39 percent of the time and he's making weather predictions six weeks out. That's something human forecasters would never dare to do. A recent report on the precision of TV forecasters said, "For next day predicting (one day out), all stations met their 'within three degrees' goal. For two days out, all but one was within three degrees. But for three days out and beyond, none of the forecasters met their three-degree benchmark, and in fact get linearly worse each day".
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