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athelind...a man with two is never sure.
I have three online weather sources that I can check pretty much at a glance: ForecastFox, which hooks up to AccuWeather.com, my iGoogle homepage, which connects to Weather Underground, and the Ubuntu desktop thermometer, which just posts the National Weather Service release for its Forecast (not sure where it gets its Current Temperature data).
ForecastFox/Accuweather insists that it's gonna be 82 today. The other two are saying mid-90s.
It's 77 out there now, by their readings; our backyard thermometer reads 79.5. It's gone up 4 degrees in less than an hour, and it's still only 10 AM.
I'm thinkin' the 82 is puttin' the "liar" into "outlier".
(Oddly, ForecastFox has been stubbornly insisting that today would be 82 since around Saturday or Sunday. Usually, their predictions shift around as the day approaches and they get better data, but not this time.)
One thing that all the sources do agree on is that things are gonna drop drastically by Thursday and the weekend. iGoogle is saying 68 on Thursday, the NWS says "mid 60s", and ForecastFox says... 61. We'll see who the outlier is then. Pretty much everyone agrees that the weekend's gonna be mid-60s.
And, yes, most of the purpose of this post was for the "outliar" pun.
I have three online weather sources that I can check pretty much at a glance: ForecastFox, which hooks up to AccuWeather.com, my iGoogle homepage, which connects to Weather Underground, and the Ubuntu desktop thermometer, which just posts the National Weather Service release for its Forecast (not sure where it gets its Current Temperature data).
ForecastFox/Accuweather insists that it's gonna be 82 today. The other two are saying mid-90s.
It's 77 out there now, by their readings; our backyard thermometer reads 79.5. It's gone up 4 degrees in less than an hour, and it's still only 10 AM.
I'm thinkin' the 82 is puttin' the "liar" into "outlier".
(Oddly, ForecastFox has been stubbornly insisting that today would be 82 since around Saturday or Sunday. Usually, their predictions shift around as the day approaches and they get better data, but not this time.)
One thing that all the sources do agree on is that things are gonna drop drastically by Thursday and the weekend. iGoogle is saying 68 on Thursday, the NWS says "mid 60s", and ForecastFox says... 61. We'll see who the outlier is then. Pretty much everyone agrees that the weekend's gonna be mid-60s.
And, yes, most of the purpose of this post was for the "outliar" pun.
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Date: 2009-04-21 09:38 pm (UTC)OK, I just used your joke to tell THAT joke. Your joke was pretty funny. ;)
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Date: 2009-04-22 12:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-22 03:47 am (UTC)The nine sources he's using are:
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WTMJ - Channel 4 (NBC affiliate)
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WITI - Channel 6 (FOX affiliate)
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WDJT - Channel 58 (CBS affiliate)
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WISN - Channel 12 (ABC affiliate)
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National Weather Service
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Weather Underground
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The Weather Channel (website)
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Weather Central
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AccuWeather