Bad Weather

Bad weather, for the most part, I can handle.

Bad weather wienies, now that's something else altogether.

A storm that was supposed to be two tenths of an inch to one half inch Monday evening at 6:15, became two inches by 5:15 Tuesday morning.

Having missed that, their next guess was at 12:15 yesterday afternoon and they noted there was three to three and one half inches on the ground, with an additional three to three and one half by this morning.

This morning, in the 5 a.m. hour, the new scenario has the snow lasting through tomorrow with up to an additional three inches added to the official six on the ground.

Coupled that with the blown call on Q last week and I'm ready to add an addendum to Shakespeare's line, "The first thing we do is kill all the lawyers".

Quickly followed by all the weather wienies and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Their excuse -- While forecasting has improved significantly in recent years, it's still highly unpredictable.

The 2010 Median Pay for Atmospheric Scientists, Including Meteorologists -- $87,780 per year, $42.20 per hour.

You wouldn't make this much, and for very long, if your results were "highly unpredictable".

Boy On Top Of The News

Somebody at KDSM FOX 17, or WHO TV HD, has some splainin' to do after running a newscast from November 13 during halftime of the Packers - Giants game yesterday.

It made our guy, Dave Price, look bad with this lead story...

FATAL ACCIDENT: Des Moines Officials found a man under a car in an accident Sunday afternoon.

Weather Boy Blunder, Brett McIntyre, looked just as bad with a weather forecast for Monday that predicted a high of 55. Per the National Weather Service the high in Des Moines on Monday November 14 2011 was 62.

That's considered an accurate forecast for TV Weather Wienies.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

Listening For The Weather

To say the least, I was completely stunned when I tuned into a 6 p.m. Saturday TV forecast to find the weather wienies now guestimating up to 9 inches of snow by Monday.

A mere 24 hours earlier these blabbering blowhards balked at any miserable precipitation in Central Iowa.

The Ragister interviewed a government employee, with the National Weather Service, who's advice to commuters Monday morning was -- drivers should pay extra attention to the forecast.

My advice to you is get a freaking forecast right.

And the scientific community is united in that fact!

In the same article, by Ragister reporter(?) Lillian Schrock, it was noted Sheraton and Cedar Rapids have seen the most rain in the state with over an inch.

I'm not sure if they were referring to the Sheraton in Iowa City or West Des Moines.

More likely the third year Drake University student, studying Journalism and Sociology with a concentration in French studies, meant Chariton.

Rhythm Of The Rain

It's amazing how on August 27 the Ragister can run a story that states a wet start to the summer has put rainfall totals in the Des Moines area an inch above normal since June, and nearly 3 inches above normal for the year.

Six days later they have a Third of state parched by drought

Because of two months of dry weather?

Per the National Weather Service, Des Moines received 1.47 inches of precipitation for July and that was down compared to a normal value of 4.18.

The climate normal period for July is considered 1971 to 2000.

In August, Des Moines received 3.18 inches of precipitation and that was down compared to a normal value of 4.13.

The climate normal period for August is considered 1981 to 2010.

One has to wonder where there is no consistency in dates from month to month for a climate normal period and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Texas is having a drought, two months should not a drought make and the weather wienies should be embarrassed to say so.

Especially since the last four years have been above-average rainfall years for Iowa.

Don't Believe The Hype

The Chicken Little's that are the weather wienies, had Des Moines in the path of 5-9 inches of snow as late as 5 p.m. Sunday.

BUZZ--WRONG!

They revised the forecast, on Saturday, to miss it too and the scientific community is united in that fact. 

Des Moines officially received 2.4 inches, with less than that at the Not So Vast Right Wing Ranch.

How does that happen?

If you put garbage into the models, you get a garbage forecast out. Forecasting is more than just interpreting models. It is an understanding of the atmosphere in the language of physics and mathematics.

It gets worse -- potential gaps in environmental-satellite data beginning as early as 2014 and lasting as long as 53 months have led to concerns that future weather forecasts and warnings—including warnings of extreme events such as hurricanes, storm surges, and floods—will be less accurate and timely.

Less accurate?

Gloomy Sunday?

The storm some have labeled Q hasn't hit Iowa yet, but it's already frazzled the weather wienies at WHO TV HD

As you can see from the screen capture, they've added two Sundays to a week.

However, they weren't the first in local weather to accomplish the feat as KCCI did it back in August 2011 (Sunday Will Never Be The Same).

Which means WHO once again finishes second to KCCI and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Elsewhere, the Ragister gives in depth coverage to the storm prep in Warren County.

At least they got the county name right, Radio Iowa.

TV Twits

WHO TV/13 is the source of many a chuckle and the scientific community is united in that fact.

This morning their reporter Megan Reuther (left) was doing a stand up at Des Moines University and teased this upcoming story.

A suicide prevention group wants you to know help is just a phone call away, I'll explain the new PUSH after the break.

She then followed that up with...

There's a new PUSH in suicide prevention.









Last night at 5, Weather wienie Ed Wilson (right) was doing his fore-guessing at the Science Center of Iowa.

He mentioned Principal people were there because they were announcing the continuation of the Principal Charity Classic for 12 more years, until 2020.

When Chris got home, she'd been attending the event at SCI, I mentioned it to her.

It turns out its TWO years until 2010.

Those weather wienies can't get anything right.

Hell And High Water?

Before the latest snow event Friday, I drove past Principal Park, home to the Iowa Cubs, and a sign reassuringly stated that the snow will be gone by Opening Day on April 8.

I chuckled to myself highly doubting it and then thinking if that were so, it would be replaced by flood waters as the risks are rising with each snowflake.

Weather Wienie Ed Wilson has the snow rankings now at #5 from our previous high of #9 with 61.7".

In the immortal words of Scott Lame (George Carlin) on Wonderful WINO radio, "that's four spaces, four spaces, four spaces, four spaces" and the scientific community is united in that fact.

There's more on the way Sunday, 6", even though the Weather Wienies had predicted it would miss Des Moines, they said Friday was a dusting and that amounted to about 4".

I know I'm not the only one tired of these TV twerps who are rooting for us to get the all time record of 72".












I'm taking up a collection to get a dump truck filled with snow to dump it on each of these dip shits cars.

I think if they want 72 inches, they should get their wish!

Embraceable You

Old Man Winter has decided to give us at least another inch, I'll let you figure out where.

The weather wienies tell us to expect another one to three inches today, with a wintry mix for Friday.

I see recently that Libby Jacobs (pictured) told the Ragister that Des Moines should...

Embrace winter: "Let's embrace the cold and snow and celebrate it like other communities do with winter festivals and seasonal activities."

Love ya Libby, but why would I want to embrace something that keeps kneeing me in the 'nads?

If I get close enough for an embrace, it would be around the throat and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Were you outside Sunday?

Many activities were canceled, even church, because Christ it was cold.

If Iowans want to act like Minnesotans or Canadians, that's OK-EH!

Keep in mind how silly it sounds calling off a winter festival because of the weather...

GILFORD, N.H. (AP) - Much of this week’s winter carnival in Gilford has been canceled, due to too much winter.

Parks and Recreation Director Herb Greene notes that the cancellation of 2 events was due to poor road conditions and snow-filled parking lots.

Chris' sister did a Polar Plunge one year that was called off because it was too cold...A POLAR PLUNGE!

We've all heard how the "CLIMATARDS" have had to call off their Gore-BULL warming conferences because of cold and snow.

I can't wait for Hawaii, see ya in the Spring!

It's Raining Again?

It soon will be according to this Ragister headline

More storms on horizon

We've already saturated the June monthly average, 4.51 inches, by soaking up 6.91 inches.

We're nearing the floods of 1993 level of 7.68 inches.

In 2008, 13.45 inches showered Central Iowa.

The record is 15.79 inches that wet the books back in 1881.

Will the Weather Wienies and TV Twerps who rooted for a record snowfall this past winter be rooting for this record too?

If they're going to be consistent they should and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Media Movement

KCCI TV8 has made some cutbacks and it includes on air staff.

That now makes them Iowa's News Lighter and the scientific community is united in that fact.

After 10 years, Meteorologist Jason Parkin was let go.

That's too bad, he was very smooth and had a sense of humor.

13 or 5 should snatch him up and can their lightweights.

For my money they could have let the morning guy, Bryan Karrick, go or Me Twinkie Slater.

Both must do their dirty deeds dirt cheap.

That leaves TV8 with only four weather wienies and means John McLaughlin may actually have to work.

The other on air casualty was Ryan Luby, LOOOBEE, no loss there as he was a weak presence (other than his Eddie Munster widows peak).

Crank It Up?

The TV Weather Wienies have been known to tell viewers to crank the AC up when it gets hot outside.

BUZZ--WRONG!

Turning the thermostat up effectively shuts the air conditioning off until the inside temperature reaches the higher setting and the scientific community is united in that fact.

From the Cedar Rapids Gazette comes this headline...

Keep your AC cranked this weekend, the heat is on

It seems to me you'd work up a sweat having to crank the AC.

Do you suppose the Gazette still puts out their product via hand cranked presses?

Summer, my time of year

The talking heads on TV were complaining about the warm weather the last couple of days.

The weather wench asked the other two wienies if they'd turned on their air and one had!

I'm sure "Gore-Bull" warming has got something to do with it.

I came across this the other day by another phony fiberal eco-nut...

Flogging the British release of his film "Wild Hogs" recently, John Travolta urged everyone to "do their bit" to combat global warming...

...London's Daily Mail, which quickly calculated that Travolta -- who it says owns at least five aircraft of various sizes, which he parks at his private home/airport in Florida -- leaves an annual "carbon footprint" of pollution nearly 100 times greater than that of the average British citizen.

...Travolta said that even though he is sensitive to the environment, he needs his own planes because it's a big hassle to be a movie star and get around. He also told reporters that the answer to global warming might possibly be to build domed cities in space.

Has he been sharing ideas with Sheryl Crow?

So what's the solution?

According to the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) leading scientists are expected to back a major expansion of nuclear power as a way of saving the world from global warming.

Isn't that the same group that got all the press when they said man was to blame for "Gore-Bull" warming?

That's got to scare all of those who genuflect at the altar of the U.N.

There's no chance the U.N. could be wrong, after all the scientific community is united in that fact.

Or is it?

During the last 10,000 years climate has been seesawing between the North and South Atlantic Oceans. As revealed by findings presented by Quaternary scientists at Lund University, Sweden, cold periods in the north have corresponded to warmth in the south and vice verse. These results imply that Europe may face a slightly cooler future than predicted by IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Summertime is the best time anyplace
Cuz its summer, summertime is here
Yes its summer, my time of year

(Words are by WAR, but its my sentiments exactly)