After watching two weather forecasts, The Hound went to sleep Friday night with the knowledge Lake County would be getting a dusting of snow --- between 1 and 3 inches. That's what the weathermen said. Guess they don't know what they're doing, eh?
The reason they don't know what they're doing is that at the Hound's dog house upward of eight inches fell between Saturday morning and Sunday morning. There was enough snow to keep snowplows busy at first salting Saturuday morning, then really plowing Saturday afternoon and into the night and into Sunday morning. Wicked winds didn't help and snowdrifts built up.
All this is preamble to say that weathermen have the most sophisticated gadgetry on the planet to forecast the weather. They've got computers to tell them what's going to happen with certainty. This model will tell them this; that model will tell them that. But they blew this one --- big time.
OK, predicting the weather isn't an exact science, but with all the gadgetry, probably much of it paid for by U.S. taxpayers, at least when it was invented, you'd think they'd get close. They were snow way. Way. Yes, waaaay off.
As Bob Dylan once crooned: "You don't need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows." Or which way the snow blows.
This is the only job that you can be correct 50% of the time and still get a pay check. I shoveled off 6+ inches of mostly cloudy from my driveway Sunday morning. Sheesh!
THE HOUND SAYS: And what a paycheck some of these weather people are collecting, right? Weather sells on TV. Surely you jest about them being right 50 percent of the time. More like 25 percent of the time!