Thursday, July 09, 2009

Weird Weather

Not that I'm I really complaining, but the cool weather this summer is taking some getting used to even though I've been up here in Wisconsin for awhile now.

Granted, it isn't terribly surprising given the lack of solar activity lately. But even taking that into account it is very unusual to see the local meteorologists so far off on their temperature forecasts. There have been multiple days when a 48 hour forecast has been 15+ degrees or more wrong. Most of the times they are saying it will be a lot warmer than it actually turns out to be, although they got it wrong in the other direction as well. We had a day in April which the 24 hour forecast said would be 72 degrees; it got to 98. (Now that was a freaky day, with steady 40 mps winds out of the south.)

48 hours ago the forecast said today was supposed to be 93 degrees. We are maxing out at around 75. Hell, last night we had to break out the comforters. We had the windows open and it got down to 57 in the bedroom. (I refuse to close up the house in July because of cold!)

And if you think the 48 hour forecasts are having it rough, the five day forecast are completely useless. I think someone will need to tweak the computer models they are relying on.

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