Why they get it wrong so often

I think that it is not so much that they get it wrong but more so that although the clouds appear to be one way that eventually they shift and our weather changes. Although they have the ability to predict, they can't control the changes. lol

A storm may arise from a clear sky.Here ,there is a old saying.we take the weather forecast for what it is worth.However Over here,to be fair they are eighty per cent right to sum up .I always feel there is some strange freak in global climate .

Personally how can any weatherman even begin to predict the weather forecast that far in advance? They should know that anything can happen, and that one day all the weather pattern needs to do is shift and we could be all wishing for the days we have been having. Here in the Seattle area it has been colder and wetter than most yrs. a lot of the time, so hope somehow winter does decide to be a little more dryer for sure.

We live in a very special area, we are in a small valley with high mountians around and it is very hard to forcast the weather here. I am surprised how well they have been doing in recent years, it seems to get better all the time. But it only takes a small change in the surrounding areas to change our weather dramaticly.

Hey bubbles, To me personally they won't ever get it right because they don't really know if you notice numbers will always change even if it's with the inches of snow fall or the amount of rain or temperature. The numbers are never on point sometimes because they predict these things. They have technology that helps them figure the pattern and the when and where of the situation but even technology isn't right sometimes. As time goes on technology will advice as it has been doing for many many many years now and the weathe will be easier to predict but it I'll never be on point because everything when it comes to weather is nothing but predictions haha and educated guess. Might be right might be wrong might be a little off or a lot off but, don't expect too much from the weather.

I put on the weather channel everyday as I dress up for work. Usually they could get it right for the day, which helps in determining what clothes I'll be wearing. But not long range forecasts. Weather here keeps on changing anyway so it'll be hard to predict what the fall, much less the winter would be like. The summer has been great here in the west coast though.

In Oklahoma City, our weather-professionals are very-calculating. Gary England helped 'invent' Doppler-radar, and so we've got several points-of-view; I'm guessing that most weather-forecasters only have one point of view ... kinda 'the wind's blowing fast this way, and there's a storm over there," ignoring the fact that the storm over there is in a wind that's blowing that way and all sorts of factors we non-'weather-professionals' aren't even thinking about. Of course, you've got to know that long-term forecasts like you describe are totally guesses (guesses based on guesses based on guesses, more like).