Great weather last week.
Of course, what goes up, must come down. We are now looking at very cold temperatures. Now, the fact that cold temperatures are following warm temperatures doesn't surprise me. I've seen that occur my entire life. What does surprise (okay, annoy) me is the consistent tendency of forecasters to semi-miss it.
Here's what I mean: Starting last week, they've been warning that temperatures were going to drop into the low forties/upper thirties (for the lows). And then every day, the forecast got worse and worse and worse, until now, they're calling for low temperatures in the upper-twenties. This has happened, no exaggeration, every year for the last five years: a gloomy cold-snap forecast in the spring that gets gloomier and gloomier and gloomier. My question is, how does the same thing happen every year?
It's kind of like those local sports events that repeatedly start a half-hour late: If you're always starting a half-hour late, maybe you need to estimate the starting time then tack a half-hour onto it.
Maybe the meteorologists need to estimate a coming spring cold snap then subtract another ten degrees from it.
That's what I'm going to do for now on in April and May.
