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February 11, 2008
The Eternal Verities
I thought I had posted this before, and I did. Originally on BunkoSquad 2/13/07:
Dear Weatherpeople:
You can stop now. All right? You can please stop telling us what the temperature is with the wind-chill factor.
You say, "it's 20 but it will feel like 10 because of the wind!" like it's supposed to mean something. We don't know what 10 feels like. It never feels like 10. Because when it's 10, it feels like 0. When it's 0, it feels like 10 below. And so on.
I don't know if you guys have noticed, but the wind
never stops blowing. Boston is one sustained gust of wind from Christmas to Opening Day. Last week a hot dog wrapper flew out of my hand; three days later it came back to me with Customs stamps from Romania and South Korea on it.So when you say, "it's 20 but it will feel like 10 because of the wind chill", you might as well say "it's 65 but it will feel like 10 because of the rotation of the Earth". Equally constant, equally useless.
See you next year.
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It always amazes me how wrong they can be and yet how precise their forecasts are. For example, do they really know that it will be 43 degrees and not, say 42, 41, or 44? Even when they say 43, if you turn to another report, it may say 45. In how many other jobs can you be this wrong this often and still keep that job?
Posted by: Vin | February 12, 2008 08:50 AM
Also it is sometimes nighttime due to the rotation of the earth.
Posted by: Josh | February 13, 2008 11:55 AM
