Weather People

It is time for my annual (or quarterly, sometimes monthly or even daily) gripe about weather people.  This is the ONLY profession where you can do your job wrong 90% of the time, yet still keep your job.  It must be awesome having that job.  You have zero stress.  All you really do is look at a few radars and make a 15 minute presentation (TV) a few times a day, then go home.  Sometimes you do have to work late in the event the weather gets a little rough (which I'm sure they forecasted good weather that day too). 

Here is what my current bitch is about.  Yesterday I wanted to go mountain biking, but preferred to go early afternoon, when the weather said it would be the warmest (52 degrees).  I checked woodtv.com and wzzm.com and weather.com, all which are the local weather sources.  Every one of them said cloudy until EARLY EVENING then 80% chance of showers.  Weather.com went as far as saying it would start around 6pm. 

12:45pm and it starts raining.  Now, I don't know about you, but I interpret EARLY EVENING as 5pm and 6pm.  I would consider 12:45pm as early AFTERNOON.  Their radar did show green stuff (rain) over Lake Michigan, but when I looked out my window the sky was really dark.  Their current temperature reading was 55 degrees however the temperature according to my car was 45 degrees and the temperature according to a local sign on the road was 44 degrees.  Much different than 55 degrees.

So I emailed them to let them know their equipment is broken because they were not even close.  I've been known to email them a number of times.  Last year I contacted the local weather person via phone because she said the rain would start at 3pm, but it started late morning.  She claimed she never said that, however I had a print screen from their website.  I faxed it too her and emailed to her, but never heard back.  I know I'll never hear back, thus I need to vent here.