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(In some countries they actually introduced prison for wrong forecasts; but it is probably the only good thing there...)
Well, should the penalties for wrong weather forecasts be imposed.
Nothing drastically.
If they predict heavy rain and there is no rain, they should be thrown into swimming pool and kept there for a half an hour.
It they are caught with umbrellas when they predicted dry and sunny weather - thez should be whipped and spanked.
If they predict hot&sunny and there is rain, they should be kept in pressure chamber for certain time etc.
Originally posted by vanderveldef***ing nazi.
(In some countries they actually introduced prison for wrong forecasts; but it is probably the only good thing there...)
Well, should the penalties for wrong weather forecasts be imposed.
Nothing drastically.
If they predict heavy rain and there is no rain, they should be thrown into swimming pool and kept there for a half an hour.
It they are ca ...[text shortened]... edict hot&sunny and there is rain, they should be kept in pressure chamber for certain time etc.
Weathermen forecast weather with all the normal reservations.
As science progresses forecasts become more reliable. But for the time being no sane person would foretell that there will be the fool-proof weather forecast ever.
weather forecasts are very well (within 95😵 for a day okay (>75😵 for three days and depending on the overall meterological situations acceptable for one week.
A weatherman once told me: We're only making well-informed guesses, and any future prediction has a chance of being wrong. Brisbane weather forecasters (weather approaches directly from a long distance over downward-sloping land) get numbers like 95%, Melbourne (weather swirls between two ranges with a sea boundary and can come from any of 3 directions) are lucky to get 80%. Same computers, same training. Not incompetence, just geography.
Originally posted by vanderveldeFacing this persecution, weathermen and weatherwomen from the tricky temperate zones would just migrate to parts of the world where the weather is relatively predictable, like here on the equator. Then they would breed and the resulting proliferation of unvarying forecasts, day after day, would cause acute discontent [just at the time when deregulated media seemed to be promising so much more], especially among media savvy youth, something that various militaries might use as an excuse to step in and take power by force of arms, with the knock on effect of mass migration of refugees from monsoonal zones to the temperate zones where democracy prevails and the validity of the weather forecasts can be discussed freely and where their unreliability can offer some conversational relief from the tedious hamster's wheel of conspicuous consumption and working for faceless corporations, but with the consequent destabilization caused by the influx of people from areas where most rain is predictably convective, and who might anger easily and grow restless at the poor quality of the weather forecasts.
Well, should the penalties for wrong weather forecasts be imposed.
Originally posted by KewpieI'm not sure if you counted all of those words or just plucked a figure out of the air. I'm not going to count them myself to find out though. 😀
143 words between . and .
I don't know how you kept track of the grammar ....
Please forgive him though as he did actually use a comma. See if you can find it. 😛
Originally posted by vanderveldeHave you recently been in an ill fated relationship with a weatherman/woman?
(In some countries they actually introduced prison for wrong forecasts; but it is probably the only good thing there...)
Well, should the penalties for wrong weather forecasts be imposed.
Nothing drastically.
If they predict heavy rain and there is no rain, they should be thrown into swimming pool and kept there for a half an hour.
It they are ca ...[text shortened]... edict hot&sunny and there is rain, they should be kept in pressure chamber for certain time etc.