weather Guessers Confused again

jeff of pa · Mar 13, 2009

2 weather reports same area From same place
State College On Top From weather Channel
out of state College on TV.

Other From Internet Weather Channel (NWS) (the OR) Out of State College

Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 47

or Cloudy with a High of 52

Sunday: A chance of rain before noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 50.

or Mostly cloudy and 59

Monday: A chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 50.

or few showers and 52

Tuesday: A chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 41

or Mostly cloudy and 51

Wednesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 43.

Or Mostly Cloudy & 70

Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 45.

OR few showers and 50

How do you Plan your Day ? $:-\$

45-70Ranger · Mar 13, 2009

Flip a coin,or go outside.

Cynangyl · Mar 13, 2009

rofl good answer! Sounds like you sure can't count on looking at forcasts to get any answers!

Lowbatts · Mar 13, 2009

Sweet! Actually what it sounds like is you have real meteoroligists at two different stations interpreting data based on their accepted models. Whereas here in Chicagoland, we have a couple dozen stations not counting the multitude of radio stations that all say the same thing and are all usually wrong by exactly the same degree, with one or two exceptions.

Those exceptions are the "old folks" stations where they still employ a meteoroligist as the weatherman. Thinking the best guy around here is Skilling, from WGN, we used to have the great John Coleman, who founded the weather channel, then abandoned that when he said it became a political/cash operation and no longer demonstrated rational meteorological sense.

smurf-42 · Mar 13, 2009

You know why they are called weatherman/woman?

Its because they don't know "weather" it will rain or snow, be sunny or cloudy, be warm or cold.

Local TV station Weather Channel
Sat 50 51
Sun 53 30% chance rain 53 partly cloudy
Mon 57 partly cloudy 55 few showers
Tues 60 partly cloudy 56 mostly cloudy
Wed 57 40% chance rain 62 partly cloudy

I am my own weather person, I go outside and stand on back porch. I get to feel what the temp. is and look at the sky to see if it is cloudy or signs of rain. Today it is sunny, but still to cold to go out and dig. Long pants, long sleeve and winter coat again today.

Sue