Dang WEATHERMAN!!!

[jtprevatte]

Well we were all set to try out our new to us camper this weekend.

They have been calling for rain all week....said it was gonna be a complete washout.

So we get up this am and check the radar....yep, looks like rain.

Then about 1 pm the rain was coming across the mountains of NC and they just dissapeared.  We had already changed our plans.

So here it is 9pm and NOT ONE DANG DROP has fallen YET!

DANG!

[Shawsee]

That's why they are called weathermen. They never know whether they are right or whether they are wrong! LOL

[SpeakEasy]

Many years ago, after having had that experience a few times, the DW and I decided that we would no longer change or make plans on the basis of a weather forecast. We have stuck to that decision, pretty much, and have rarely been disappointed. Now, if we have plans to go camping or do some other outdoor activities, and the ACTUAL weather is nasty, we will often change our plans to suit the conditions. But, we make a big distinction between a FORECAST and ACTUAL weather conditions. You might want to adopt this approach too.

-Speak

[jawilson]

Something almost identical happened to us the weekend of 7/15.

Thursday night (7/13) both weather.com and noaa.gov (National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration -- the people NASA use for weather) both had not a single drop of rain [/b]in there 5 day forecasts. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zero. But they lied...

Saturday morning -- two days later -- we woke and it was overcast. Not a problem, we thought, because we were in a valley within 100 feet of a good sized lake on a humid weekend. All make fog a possibility, so we assumed that's what it was. Wrong!

Somewhere around 11:00AM, while sitting at the picnic bench -- still in the fog! -- I felt what seemed to be a rain drop or two. Impossible I said, because it's not predicted to rain for at least 5 days. Perhaps it was just dew coming of the trees and appearing to be rain. But then I felt a few more. And then even more. At that point I realized it wasn't dew, but it was instead rain.

For the next 6 or 7 hours it rained. Not steady, but for 80% - 90% of the time it was raining. Every once in a while it was kind of heavy too. But regardless, it was doing something that TWO weather services said was absolutely not possible.

Now, being a life-long camper I realize that the weather man is often a bit inaccurate, but this was completely and totally wrong. It wasn't even close to what they had predicted. It's as though you were in the Twilight Zone, or some parallel universe, because they might as well have just made up there weather "prediction". I have been caught off guard by forecast inaccuracies before, but nothing ever approaching this bad. We were stunned.

[garym053]

We watch the weather, swear at the weather & weatherpeople, but we don't change plans based on a forecast.
We've canceled plans only to have it turn out nice too many times. AND almost as often, we've gone when the predicted nice and got drenched all weekend. Even on most of the drenched weekends it beat staying home!

Now we go as planned but we carry a Weather/Emergency radio with us to give us warning of any dangerous weather and that's about all we pay attention to.