“Coming into the Far Turn It’s Snow by a Nose” 0
The local rag considers why local forecasters blew it on the snow storm. (Weather dot com was much closer, revising its forecast upwards from 1-2 inches to 5-8 inches shortly before the snow started, but it’s not local; it’s cyber.)
I recall reading somewhere that weather forecasting is the only physical science in which success is judged on predicting the future, as opposed to explaining the past.
Afterthought:
Once, there was a grizzled old man who had a reputation for being able to predict the weather with unerring accuracy. Farmers and ranchers from miles around would journey to his cabin for his help in planning when to plant and when to harvest.
One day, after a dry spell, a delegation of farmers from the next county arrived to ask him whether it was going to rain.
“Sorry,” he said. “Can’t tell you.
“Radio broke.”
