Ah, to be a weatherman...

edit: Updated forecasts are calling for the heavy rain to hit throughout the evening instead of during the day as called for before. So this post will most likely be stupid on my part. But it's still partly true...


Today we were supposed to get rain. Not just your run of the mill rain, but an ass-slapping downpour. 2-2.5 inches, to be exact. Our little section of SE Wisconsin's map was a lovely shade of spring-like purple.

What did we get????

A gentle rain that turned on and off for most of the morning and then depressing gray. Our sidewalks are already drying up. The pines are laughing.

This is par for the course though, as yesterday we were supposed to have a chance of morning showers and then clearing in the afternoon.

What did we get???

A day of steady rain. Not drizzle, but rain. Rain that pounds on your windshield so hard you can't hear the person on the other end. They can hear the rain too. That kind of rain.

It's often a topic of conversation about the weathermen's (weatherpeople, I should say....) continual inaccuracy. "If only we could all be weathermen...only get our jobs right 50% of time." Someone's ALWAYS guaranteed to say it when the subject arises (while thinking they are the first to ever utter such wit). True, but I'm not unreasonable and I took enough courses throughout my education to know that weather patterns can be unpredictable. The atmosphere is not some constant, like a book that reads the same at all times. But is it too much to ask for them to be a LITTLE right?

I guess you could argue that they WERE. They did predict rain on both days and we got that, just not in the order they reported on, incessantly, for the past 48 hours. "A Storm is A-Coming!" (okay, so I just channeled my inner Sophia)

So here's what they're forecasting for Friday... "Times of clouds and sun." WTF??? Seriously? Have they just resigned themselves to the fact that they pretty much suck and won't get it right, so they'll just make things as broad as possible? Considering the Solar System hosts a sun, and clouds are often present, this seems like a safe bet I guess. One of them is more than likely going to make an appearance.

Unless we get 12 inches of snow, which will probably happen.