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February 28, 2005
Precision
We have a Winter Storm Warning in effect until 11:09 tonight.
11:09.
It may be 4 inches of snow, it might be a foot, it might be more. It might change to rain or freezing rain or sleet or hail. It may track to the west of us, or the east, and we may or may not get more or less precipitation than they get on the Cape or some vague points to the north and west of the city.
But whatever happens, it's comforting to know that at 11:10 PM, it will all be over.
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I also always wonder when they say something like "it will be 37 degrees on Friday", how they know that. Specifically, how do they know that it won't be 36? or 38? I don't need to know THAT precisely anyway. Knowing the temperature "will be the upper 30s" would be enough for me to know how much to bundle up, whether or not I need to start my car earlier, and so on. I don't make one decision based on it being 37 and another if it were "only" going to be 36.
Posted by: Vin | February 28, 2005 05:01 PM
And at 11:11, they will release the armies of snowblowers. By 11:27, a pincer movement of blowers will have trapped the snow in the mall parking lot. By 11:46, the carnage will be over.
Posted by: PSoTD | February 28, 2005 06:16 PM
Well, it's 12:05 and it is coming down in sheets. Looks nice. I don't mind. Lately the weather service has not seemed very acurate.
Posted by: grrl8trax | March 1, 2005 12:07 AM
