Weathering Weather
By Loretta
@noni1959 (11493)
United States
October 19, 2025 6:31pm CST
I have a friend who’s always telling me what our weather is, straight from her weather app. Every time, I tell her not to go by the app, but she still does.
Today she texted me saying it was “cloudy,” according to her app. It was pouring rain with wind gusts, so I took a video and sent it back showing the time stamp.
She replied, “But the app says…”
So I told her, “Well, the rain just told your app, ‘Here, hold my beer.’”
She didn’t find that as funny as I did and said I didn’t need to be a smart-you-know-what.
I really do try not to be a smarty-pants (the nice version), but sometimes it just slips out. I explained that those weather grids cover huge areas, and living in a rural, waterfront spot can make a big difference.
This isn’t the first time it’s happened, and probably won’t be the last. I should probably just send back a smile emoji next time instead of a weather lesson.
To be fair, she caught me before my coffee, and I was still drying out after wrestling the canvas gazebo off my trailer that the wind had picked it up, tossed it over, and dropped it against the side, taking two light poles and a string of lights with it.
After coffee and a hot bath, I was in a much better mood.
Looks like we’re in for a colder, crazier winter here in the wetlands.
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12 responses
@celticeagle (183027)
• Boise, Idaho
20 Oct
If we all believed everything our apps told us, where would we be now? Weather forecasting is just an approximation. I have often looked forward to rain and either didn't get it at all or later than the forecast said. It's good to have them available though.
I look forward to the fog we get in January or February. I enjoy watching it grow and deepen.
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@celticeagle (183027)
• Boise, Idaho
20 Oct
@noni1959 ........I enjoy watching it develop. Just plain old fog.
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@noni1959 (11493)
• United States
20 Oct
@celticeagle When I was a teenager, my girlfriend and I loved to walk to school in it. That was before they began fog delays.
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@sallypup (67095)
• Centralia, Washington
20 Oct
I will repeat myself: you live closer to the coast than me. Your weather will always be wilder than mine. Yes I heard my walnut tree blowing its limbs around last night but probably not as intensely as it would have if it lived at your place.
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@noni1959 (11493)
• United States
21 Oct
My son wants to build a nice wooden one anchored in the ground. He got these from clients to do videos and he gets to keep them. He thought they would be sturdy enough to keep up until mid-November for some of his items, but he now has a good honest feedback video to do about the one.
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@LindaOHio (208126)
• United States
20 Oct
Is that your new house???? I'm a weather nut and am always telling cousin #2 what the forecast is. She never wants to hear it! lol
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@noni1959 (11493)
• United States
24 Oct
@LindaOHio Thank you. I wish they would finish it.
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@jefferson126 (3667)
• Shenzhen, China
20 Oct
Your friend trust the APP too far,even the weather forecast are not necessarily precise.You should tell she no longer give weather lesson to you,it's uninteresting actually.
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@noni1959 (11493)
• United States
24 Oct
@jefferson126 Me too. I'm at the age I want to walk away and most times do.
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@jefferson126 (3667)
• Shenzhen, China
21 Oct
@noni1959 ,it make sense,i don't want argue with anyone,usually i keep silence when someone try argue with me.
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@snowy22315 (199918)
• United States
20 Oct
The apps never even agree with each other, so they can hardly be considered accurate. Accuweather seems pretty good for the most part..but they aren't always right either. Frequently they will say it is raining here and show it on the radar and we have none.
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@RasmaSandra (91712)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20 Oct
Here in Florida we have settled at nice temps in the 70s.
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@RasmaSandra (91712)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
21 Oct
@noni1959 but it is the hurricane warnings that terrify me,
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@noni1959 (11493)
• United States
24 Oct
@RasmaSandra I have a niece in Orlando. We are on alert for a major thunder storm, high winds, 6 inches of rain and a lot of beach alerts.
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@Deepizzaguy (116574)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
20 Oct
It appears that the colder weather is coming soon.
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@sathviksouvik (21949)
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28 Oct
weather can be forecast to some approximate figure. There cannot be exact perfect prediction
