The forecast was for a “dusting” to one inch
But what we got was an honest 5 inches of the lightest, fluffiest snow I’ve seen in a decade.
Weather forecasters: well at least they’re pretty good at telling me when the precipitation will start, give or take six hours or so, but I wish they would remind me by ending the forecast with “…no more than an inch this time around, but what the heck do we know?”
2010-01-30 22:09 by Standard Mischief, Filed under:deranged rants 2 Comments »
Leah Says :
It’s so hard to know how much snow will fall. Heck, it’s even difficult to measure what fell. Rain is easy to predict because a consistent amount of water forms rain drops. Snow, as you’ve discovered, can vary highly in moisture content. So, your meteorologists predicted snowfall based on much more wet snowdrops, and they ended up wrong.
2010-02-03 10:06 PermalinkStandard Mischief Says :
That’s not the entire picture. They just are not very good at predicting the track and speed of a storm, which makes a big difference in total accumulation.
However, I think they’re also unwilling to say a prediction that will cover all the bases. If you listen to the one radio station I do on my commute, in the last 24 hours, they’ve predicted 8 to 30 inches of snow. (Not in the same hour of course.)
2010-02-04 22:44 Permalink