Listen,
the wind is rising
and the air is wild with leaves.
We have had,
our summer evenings
now, for October eves... Humbert Wolfe.
Sounds about as accurate as our local weather forecasters who, by the way, have the greatest jobs in town. What other occupation can you be totally wrong, not a speck of truth came from your prediction and you still get to collect a paycheck. If Something happens that they didn't see on the weather-liar radar, you don't get your part of your cable bill back. You depend on the news with their high-fluting computers to be able to give you some kind of idea how to dress the kids for school and whether to wear flip-flops or tennis shoes.
Still, the glamour of being a weather-liar, leaves me less than thrilled. As one who could care less about inversions and cloud formations, all those hand gestures sweeping over a map of the US just doesn't do too much for me. Apparently, just talking about what may happen to us weather-wise tomorrow is about as accurate as anything - we are going to have weather tomorrow. We think it is going to (insert guess here) but it may (insert horrible prediction). Our evening will be unsettled ( insert Anything type of weather - scenario here)
But, my favorite quote of the day came from my friendly, little checker at Walmart this morning. We were talking about the weatherliars and she said she once called the US Weather Bureau and left them this message,
I just finished shoveling over 6 inches of partly cloudy off my driveway.
Ah, A girl after my own heart, Life is good, if you are a weather man...
