I know what you mean JD, every inaccurate weather forecast just leads me to contemplate going back to beat up my high school guidance counsellor.  Not too many other professions where you only need to be accurate 30% of the time and excel, except for a hall of fame baseball player.

And these weathermen are high tech failures

You're kidding right Mursclub?  PLEASE, TELL US YOU'RE KIDDING!!!!

Ah, you're right, they do get a bad wrap, I think the problem is kind of self-created though, because they got all this new fancy equipment "Fox Six News, with the new Super-Doppler, ACME Sure-Fire Weather Predictor & Radar!" and they still are only right half the time.

The truth is, I was a weather geek as a kid (I used to turn on the radar on cable and try to "forecast" upcoming storms and stuff, imagining I was a weatherman.  I still remember I wanted to be a local weatherman named Joe Witty, the guy was like my hero when I was 8 or 9).

Maybe YOU can answer a question for me though.  WHAT THE HELLS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PARTLY SUNNY AND PARTLY CLOUDY!!!

It always drives me MAD when they say "Saturday will be partly sunny with a chance of shower, Sunday should be nice but partly cloudy".

Another thing that always makes me chuckle is the "50% chance of rain on Tuesday".  MAN, TALK ABOUT COVERING YOUR BASES.  It MIGHT rain, then again, it MIGHT NOT.  Hmmm, thanks for your help Mr. Weatherguy

I think "Partly Cloudy" is used the most for night time forecasts. It would sound kind of funny if the forcast for tonight was "Partly Sunny". lol

I use Firefox for my browser. It has a weather plugin so I have the conditions, temp, and a pop-up forecast in the lower right corner of my browser all the time. It's no better than Weatherbug though as it can only provide the data that the humans feed it.

-- Edited by Dovetails at 01:33, 2005-05-08

My other one was a real face too . . . my dog's face on my son's body.

With all the talk about "this avatar kind of looks like me", I thought I'd see if I could start a new trend . . . who's next?

I'd put my real picture on there, but I prefer the avatar.  Plus I think my picture is too big and I'm not computer savvy enough to shrink it down.  You've all seen what I look like, I think, and that's good enough for me. 

Oh, and we're not allowed to use weatherbug at work.  Our IT guy says that it puts viruses on our computers, so we're not allowed to use it at all.  I fear the IT guy, so I listen like a good girl. 

-- Edited by Trish at 09:14, 2005-05-09

Even more off topic . . .

I've also heard that that the Weatherbug is spyware and tracks what you do and where you go on the net. I don't know if it's true or just "IT guy paranoia" but I've heard that as well. Now that I look at their site again, they clearly state that they do not have a tracking system. I would think that running an antispyware program would show it as spyware if it really is. If they have advertising in their system, then that's probably were they get their revenue to provide the service.

By the way, if you have not heard, Microsoft has a pretty decent free antispyware tool now at:
http://microsoft.com/spyware
It only supports 2000 and XP. That's a story by itself as MS bought this program from another company and it used to support '98. Microsoft disabled the '98 support in it after they bought it since they are no longer supporting '98 themselves.

Anyway, the nice thing about the Microsoft antispyware is that it is "memory resident" meaning it will watch for spyware in real time like an antivirus program. Rather than only removing the spyware that gets on your system when you think to run it, this one will help keep the spyware from getting on your system in the first place. Using the Firefox browser will help too as it does not have the ActiveX scripting running which is how most spyware gets on your system.

So, if you:
1. Put your machine behind a firewall
2. Run a good antivirus program
3. Run antispyware programs
4. Switch from IE to Firefox
5. Don't open email attachments
You should be able to use Windows fairly safely.

I just got the new American Hi-Fi CD for Mother's Day (bought by me for me, but that's a WHOLE 'nother story) and posted a reply and was listening to it for the first time and their is a song about a weather guy!  Talk about freaky.  It's called Highs and Lows and it is awesome!  Thought about you , Mrsclub!  I would dedicate it to ya, but it's not on here yet. 

You know how to solve the problem JD?  Move down here to Sunny Southern California.  We were a little wet this year but living in the Palm Springs area is sunny every day.  I work from home, and had lunch by the pool in my trunks and enjoyed another cloudless sky with gentle breezes wafting through my princess palm trees.  I think today was 80 degrees.  I didn't last long though becasue I got cold.  105 is my ideal temperature and I even continue playing golf through the summer.  Will admit the day it got to 131, I didn't finish the 18 holes.