Just for Fun - Weather Reports

I want to be a weather forecaster (meteorologist) when I grow up!!! They get paid to be wrong! :)

I think the only time they get it right is in the summer - it's gonna be a hot one today folks!!!

That being said....I do watch them...just to see what MIGHT happen!!

I never watch the weather. Funny thing-- the Weather Channel's site predicted clear weather and it snowed. Then, another 'clear weather day'.... well, more snow.

My window is the best indicator I can find. :)

I'm with Nancy. Our weather changes on a dime, and often, so I just look outside. If I have any question about the temp, I just go outside. Gloves live in my coat pockets in the winter, and all clothes get rotated twice a year. The basket by the door either is filled with gloves and winter hats, or baseball and fishermen hats, and sunscreen. Weather is a major topic of conversation in Erie.

Here in Bend, the weather changes every 20 minutes. The 5 day forecast is just for fun.

My husband makes fun of me for watching the news at night to see the weather. I enjoy it - and like the science behind it. He likes to point out that I could get the same info in about a second by checking it online...

I watch it like a hawk, my husband says I'm obsessed. I'm not. I just like watching it. He travels, so I like to be in the know. He says I'm wasting time because most of the time they are wrong!!

I generally watch at least one in depth forecast once a day. Usually our weather goes to my sister in another state and I keep an eye out for her weather. Someday I want to do storm chasing. I can't imagine my H doing it!

I like to know the weather.
But of course here, the weather does not fluctuate much nor get too extreme. LOL
We are expecting heavy rains or something this weekend and next week.
So its nice to know, per the kids and school and more traffic on those days etc. So our drive time gets affected.

My cousin's husband is a meteorologist for an airlines, so I get very in-depth weather updates from him in my Facebook feed. Otherwise, I just check the 10 day forecast in my Weather Channel app.

I used to watch it when I had Local on the 8's with cable, but my new cable company doesn't have it.

I look it up online, now. I want to see the temp. for what jacket to wear, and as a teacher, we tend to look for storm fronts coming in the winter :).

I will often look for the barometric pressure because abrupt changes in that gives me migraines.

I think The Weather Channel does a good job of telling people what will happen in the next hour, so I use that feature often. It helps me determine whether or not to go for a bike ride, for instance.

I also have relatives who were farmers before they retired. They still talk about the weather for a long time daily, even with people who live on the other side of the hill (literally) because there actually CAN be different weather only one mile away. Their lives depended upon making their own predictions. I have spent enough time camping multiple days to think that I can anticipate the weather quite well myself. I think it is somewhat sad that we are so removed from the weather at this time in history.

I laugh about the days when we waited until 11 p.m. to find out what the weather was going to be for the entire next day! Weather patterns can change so quickly, it seems foolhardy to think nothing would change in the twelve hours after the forecast was made.

I love weather because it is so random. It keeps us on our toes.

We don't watch a lot of tv these days.
I check the forecast on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration site.
Growing up in Western NY, my favorite weather man was Barry Lillis.
He never made the weather boring.

Seatlle is one if the 3 hardest places in the world to predict the ACTUAL weather.

((As opposed to the general weather... Which is (barring 2 weeks a year) : Raining, Just finished raining, Will be raining soon... And overcast. Its over ast 300 days a year.))

In most of the country the meteorologists can say 'Rain. From 3pm tapering off at 5pm.

HERE? If they say snow it could be snow, or sun, or rain. If the day sun COUNT on rain, if they say rain, it'll probably rain, but it may be sunny & gorgeous.

We have COMMON 20 degree temp changes in a day, and often 30-40 degrees in a day. 30 70 50 40 70 30 19 40 50 50 50 (that's average weather from Sept-June. June-Sept looks like this 50 50 80 50 75 75 103 65.

Teeheehee. My east coast friends are always blown away by the CLOTHES people wear here. Be ause on the street, in 50-60 degree weather, you find full winter clothes, jeans & hoodies, shorts and puffy jackets. Skirts & flips. Shorts & tees. You CAN'T tell what the weather is by seeing what people are wearing.

And I don't know anyone who 'puts away' any season wardrobe EXCEPT : snow suits & swimsuits. 2 articles of clothe live in the closet. Everything else stays out year round. Be ause its 50 & raining in July. And 75 & sunny in January.

People get sick here, a LOT, though. We weren't designed for these crazy temp fluxes.

Mold was, though. We have more molds & fungus species than the top 3 rainforests COMBINED.

Ugh. And it seems like half of them live in sinuses! LOL, I laugh, but most people in Seattle have chronic sinus infections. So its not just the AREA that's drippy... WE are, too!

Our poor weather people don't have a chance.

(We also don't have 5 day forecasts. We have 2 day forecasts. The news DOES 5 day (national news), but local only does 2 day. Even then, its wrong about half the time.

oh no. i log onto the weather site several times a day and pore over the hourly forecast. i've got two old horses and have to keep current on how much turnout/blanketing/shelter they'll need, as well as preserving my limited grass pasture.
i'm a weather junkie!
not so much in spring and fall. but in summer when the heat and bugs are bad, or winter when the cold and wind or wet factor in.
khairete
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If there was not weather, my husband would not have anything to talk about lol,, Me i get up, look outside and look at my phone for the temperature. And off I go.

I like to look at weather.com just about every day ! I do it for fun and because I love to see what the temps will be !

In fact, I am going to do that in a few minutes.

I do not sit down long enough to watch the news. I am always doing something...laundry, etc.

Since I have weather app on my phone and on laptop...I rarely even watch the weather anymore. Just check upcoming forecast and move on!

Sometimes I'm not even convinced the 'weatherman' knows what high pressure/low pressure means...all sounds greek to me!

I do watch the weather report at breakfast. It's more of a guide in what to wear for jackets. This week -18 windchill-the pillsbury dough girl jacket came out. In the 20s means regular winter jacket. Then it's the snow fall. 1-2 inches- you are good; just warm up the vehicle. 3-5 inches-leave about 10 minutes early. When the weather people say blizzard, go grocery shopping before the storm:)

Just give me the 5 day weather report sister, and I'm good. The detail they discuss is like Charlie Brown's teacher to me....wah, wah. wah, wah. LOL

I don't watch tv news, I read the newspaper instead, so I just look at the five day forecast.

I look at the 5 day forecast. I become attentive if it's snow or a storm.

Its news when its anything other than sunny. I don't watch (no TV) but have the app which changes regularly throughout the day. The weather news on the radio cracks me up. A light sprinkle is rain. A rain is a storm. Above 90 and we're freaking out here. Sensational as all get out. So no, I zone out.

I only check it to see what time it is supposed to freeze so the roads will be too dangerous to drive. We live in the Willamette Valley and we have a saying, its either going to rain, or it isn't. We dress in layers and pretty much know that just because its raining out one window doesn't mean that the sun isn't shining out the other one. (I have seen this). We don't rely on metorologists usually because they always say "a chance of rain" well, duh, I could tell you that one already. They dont' ever really have to worry about being wrong!