Do you know what a weather rock is? It’s a fantastic device for telling you what the weather is. Quite accurate too, far better than those weathermen on TV.
Linoge tells of his weather-rock like story.
I have a similar one.
Wife loves to follow weather. She knows all about the science of it, can even decently predict things. She’s kept an accurate count of how many days have been over 100º in Austin this summer. She really digs weather.
But whenever it looks like rain, she must go look at the radar. Either the dedicated radar channel on the cable TV, or pulling up a web browser and looking at a website with a radar feed.
I just look out the window.
So it’s a fun little joke between us… she can’t confirm if it’s raining or not without looking at the radar. I confirm it by going outside and getting wet or not. I might be the technology geek, but sometimes old-school techniques work just fine. 😉
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The radar is SO much better than the window — you can see into the future!
I took a group of Cub Scouts to visit a local news station. We got to go into the “weather room” and speak with the meteorologists. One of them said something to the effect of “this is a great job… what else can you do where you get paid to be wrong?” 🙂 It was a funny comment.
But I took can see into the future… just look in the direction the wind is blowing… see what’s going on with the clouds. Viola. 😉
Ahh, the glories of the internet… Quite possibly one of the most insiduous of man’s inventions, but, hey, it is rather useful… 😉
Can be, yes. 🙂
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