Why it is a good thing that the weatherman is always wrong

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It was cold last night. Cold enough to slip that thermostat indicator above 60 for a few minutes, just to take the chill off the bedroom. And it's cold this morning. When it's very cold, I like to try to impress The Boy with hard numbers, hoping to convince him to dress appropriately. So, I just checked the forecast and it says that today's high temp will be 44 F and today's low temp will be 27 F. That low of 27 sounds cold. Yet, the temperature right now is 20 F. So, the temperature right now is lower than the forecasted low and both of these numbers are displayed on the weather website right next to one another. Because, if you're a weather forecaster, you can do that. You can predict a lowest-possible temperature that is higher than the current temperature and still keep your job. I thought wouldn't it be great if the weatherman actually got the weather forecast right? ] Just think, you would know for sure if you needed a sweater or an umbrella or a snow shovel. But after some consideration, I decided that we are lucky that the forecast is usually wrong. Think of how many times the television weatherman has hyped a coming blizzard and in the end, all that fell were a few, wet snowflakes? Think of all the floods that never happened. Think of the long-term forecasts? What if some of those ever came true? Occasionally, they underestimate a storm, but on the whole, the weather guy gives us the most exciting weather forecast he can think of, given the meteorological conditions. And we are lucky that his exaggerated outcomes never materialize. Today's optimism will have to be overlooked. I have to remember all the hurricanes they predicted that never came near us and all the blizzards that turned out to be rain. Are you ever glad that the weatherman was completely wrong?