Weather forecasting

On Thursday the forecast for Sunday was 'rain, 72 degrees.' On Friday the forecast for Sunday was 'cloudy, 82 degrees.' On Saturday the forecast for Sunday was 'partly cloudy with showers developing, 85 degrees.' Today, Sunday, it looks to be sunny and hot. I know this from looking out the window.

That weather prediction is still as inaccurate as it was when bunions told us "it's gonna storm bad" is the worst kept secret of our age. The Weather Channel is big business with a huge following; every podunk TV and radio news station has its own Meteorologist on staff, all to let us know how to plan our week by their sure predictions of the weather. And we know, from almost daily disappointments, that they couldn't predict the weather an hour in advance, much less a 3-5 day forecast. But they keep predicting, we keep watching, and somehow we are all in on the conspiracy: Don't ever look back or acknowledge your mistakes.

Just once I'd like to hear a weather report that started with "Boy, were we wrong!"