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- From: cpbeaure@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Chris Beauregard)
- Subject: Re: Forecasting error (was: Stupid statements)
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- References: <1992Jul29.183901.24581@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <10017@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:43:41 GMT
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- In article <10017@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> stricher@masig.fsu.edu (Char Aznabul) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul29.183901.24581@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- >hannegan@hyperion.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bryan Hannegan) writes:
- >
- >+ I remember when I was working at WSFO Los Angeles a couple years back, I
- >+ did some pretty big boo-boos myself....like taking a telephone call about
- >+ some flooding and going right on the air with it... despite the fact that
- >+ it was as blue of sky and clear of cloud as it gets in LA... seems some
- >+ bonehead called us because a nearby water main flooded his house and he
- >+ hadn't looked outside (neither did I for that matter!)
- >
- >I was always told that looking out the window is one of the last
- >things one does before issuing that local forecast... :)
-
- Perhaps this is why I've never seen a weather station with a window.
- I'll always remeber those times I walk up to a Met at work and tel them
- it's raining outside. "Oh, is it?"
-
- >James
-
- Chris Beauregard cpbeaure@cayley.waterloo.edu
- Differently Expressed: The politically correct term for politically
- correct people.
-