I’m always so impressed by Mother Nature’s work with hoar frost on trees at this time of the year as she does such a spectacular job! Thank goodness for digital cameras and smartphones with strong photo capabilities.
However it can be vexing to say the least to attempt to get a weather forecast for your area in terminology which can be understood. Apparently “weather persons” cannot just give you the forecast. Rather they must “dramatize” the forecast by using pseudo-technical gibberish terminology. Such as “atmospheric river, polar vortex plunge, bomb cyclone, bombogenesis, derecho and heat dome!” Because the weather forecast itself is not important as much as entertaining and retaining the viewers.
I wonder if there should be two forecasts, one for the agricultural community and one for the urbanites who are only interested in going to the lake if the weather is fine and there are not too many bugs.
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I think I am more comfortable using a mixture of tried and true methods to get a forecast. Like knowing what the weather is 300 miles up wind of where you are. so check your prevailing winds and see what’s upstream and headed your way. Red sky at night sailors delight, red sky at morning sailors takes warning. Red sky at sunset is fair weather on the morrow, red sky in morning is warning of storms for the day. Are the cattle upset and bawling huddled a corner of the pasture? If so it means you are close on to a solid thunderstorm. High muskrat houses in the sloughs at fall mean the winter will have a lot of snow.
It doesn’t take teams of highly paid meteorologists to “forecast the weather” the clues are all around you when you are outside. Just learn to read them, the information is there, that and common sense are all you need!
May Peace and Happiness be with you this Christmas Holiday season and through the New Year.
Best
Martin E. Silenus