I hate the weatherman

United States
July 22, 2007 8:48am CST
We had a gloriously beautiful day here in Georgia yesterday and as the wife is away with my van and I am left with her Jeep I thought it would be nice to take the top off and go for a drive. I quickly check the weather and see that there is no chance of any rain for the next 3 days....perfect. So there I am in bed this morning at 6am and I am wakened by this strange whooshing noise. I shake my self awake and realize that there is a torrential downpour going on and the inside of the Jeep now looks like Lake Superior. I've been out there for the last half hour with a shop-vac trying to clean up.....totally frustrated
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@beckish (641)
• United States
22 Jul 07
Here in the Spokane area of Washington State, we say "if you don't like the weather in Spokane wait fifteen minutes and it will change." We also call the weather report the "weather guess." Often it seems like the weather will do exactly opposite of what is predicted. I am so sorry about the Jeep - that is not fun! We had a similar issue a couple weeks ago - was supposed to have a hot dry spell for a couple weeks straight so my husband got the boat ready to go out. It poured one night - and our fish finder (which was missing part of a seal) was doused and stopped working as a result. :-(
• United States
22 Jul 07
we had the exact same type of weather when we lived in Calgary, Canada. You could literally have all 4 seasons in one day.
@Amstardam (1348)
• United States
22 Jul 07
haha it's like that in Seattle too. I used to live in Colorado Springs and in mid June we'd have snow, rain, and sunny 90 degree weather in one day. That place was crazy.
• China
23 Jul 07
Yeah,so frustrating.I have the same feeling .The weatherman in Beijing isn't that good either.If the weatherman said it would be rainy hard tomorrow.You kown there's seldom a heavy rain in Beijing.We all expect a heavy rain in such a hot summer.Yet it always turned out to rain a little and lasts only several minutes.We students in Beijing always say:"If the weatherman says it'll rain heavily,then it'll turn out to be rain a little.If the weatherman says it'll be very hot tomorrow ,then it'll really be very very hot !"Ah!
@Fishmomma (11377)
• United States
23 Jul 07
Sorry to hear of your problem. It rarely rains here and today get to the store with no rain gear and it starts to pour. I told my husband that explains why the store is empty, as I haven't been watching the news lately.
@bonn71 (13)
• Philippines
23 Jul 07
i hate them too!!! sometimes they have to cancel school just to say there's gonna be a bad weather when it's gonna be a sunny day!!! and there were times when we have to go to school just to suffer from heavy rains and traffic in the afternoon!!
22 Jul 07
Even in our relatively small country the weathermen generalise but the weather varies. Sometimes it can be raining in our front garden but not in the back! So I don't trust the forecasts and judge for myself. Mind you it has been so wet here this 'summer' that in lots of places people have needed boats rather than even jeeps. Some places had 2 months' worth of rain in one day and the streams could not cope. I think we will escape without a hose pipe ban this year!!!
@ahamster (33)
• United States
23 Jul 07
The weather forcast PREDICTIONS suck. They said it was going to rain after 10. I left at 9, and i got SOAKED! Time to look for multiple predictions and paste the pieces together.
@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
22 Jul 07
I've given up on our 'local' weatherman. The weather is brought to us from a town that is about 2 hours away. I'm convinced that he uses a giant wheel, much like the one on 'Wheel of Fortune,' that has various forecasts on the links. He then develops colorful language for the mundane forecast and away he goes, blabbering endlessly as if he has any clue as to our predicted weather. Sorry about the wife's jeep. I trust that all is well after a good working-over with the shop vac? Hey, perhaps you could search every shoebox, purse and other packaged goods in your home for those little desiccant packages of silica gel. Or better yet, go to the mall and rip them off from purses and other items...put hundreds of them in your wife's jeep (with the top up and windows up of course) and voila, a dry jeep! Ha! (although I wonder if they would all swell and explode?!)
• United States
22 Jul 07
our weatherpeople suck too.it must be the only job where you can be wrong consistantly and still keep your job.i have an arthritic cat who is more accurate than their high priced doppler "machine that goes ping".
@Amstardam (1348)
• United States
22 Jul 07
I do too. I don't where they come up that stuff. I never leave my windows or anything down in a car because I don't trust them! If I want to know what the weather is like, I look outside and judge for myself. Anyway, hopefully your jeep is okay. :)