Wednesday, September 28, 2005

New arrivals?

Good lord, what turnip truck did our current crop of TV weather forecasters fall off of. As I write this the woman on Channel 5 here in SF just said an off-shore wind flow is bringing us unseasonably warm weather. Good grief...September and October are the warmest months of the years and have been for many years. This year of 2005 however, has seen very few warm days in San Francisco and absolutely no hot days. Last year I was able to go to Giants games and relax in mild to hot weather in the day and reasonably mild weather at night but not this year. Where are these so-called weather people getting their information? I REPEAT...September and October ARE the warmest months of the year, or at least they are supposed to be. Another thing these TV people fail to do is to clearly differentiate between San Francisco and inland weather which is typically warmer than San Francisco in the summer. They tend to lump everything together or gloss over it so quickly that they tend to confuse many people. Perhaps there are time constraints on their reporting but they need to find a way to make things clearer. Too many times at work co-workers from Concord or Walnut Creek would arrive in SF unprepared for the chilly weather because it was supposed to 85 or 90 or so they thought but that forecast was for their hometown, not San Francisco. Yes, I do hear "cooler along the coast" but then that can be a fairly big area which doesn't really help people pinpoint weather conditions in their own city.

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