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Old 06-13-2024, 08:23 AM
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Originally Posted by retiredguy123 View Post
Weather forecasters often predict more rain than actually occurs. It happens too often to be an error. Personally, I think they do it on purpose. I don't know why, but could it be that, if it rains and they didn't predict it, they will be more heavily criticized?
Agree.

More likely though it "if it bleeds, it leads". The more doom and gloom is predicted, the more people will tune to/click/watch the predictor(s) in question.

It was the same in Minnesota. I can't tell you the number of times that SNOW UP TO YOUR NOSTRILS was predicted along with DANGEROUS WINDS and followed, of course, by the dreaded POLAR VORTEX!!!!! coming to park right over us. So more often than not we'd end up with about 4-6 inches, a few drifts, and a welcome if cold respite of bright clear blue skies so we could clear what accumulated in the driveway. In other words, normal if boring winter weather. But people don't click on normal and boring, so...