WhiteGiant
Maximum Pace
- Nov 4, 2006
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When will they get it right?
There are quite a few names I've thought of for those stupid imbeciles who pretend to be able to tell us what the weather will be like in the next few days (many of the names however, are not suitable for a public forum).
Typhoon! Typhoon! Typhoon! ..... Bullsh*t!
It's fair enough to say that Taiwan, Okinawa & Kyushu got hit pretty hard; I'm not disputing that, and my heart goes out to them. But, for the guys in the meteorology department to spin their doom & gloom tripe about said typhoon heading towards Tokyo was just plain rubbish! (I'm actually only disappointed because I believed it!)
I usually use the Yahoo animated "cloud distribution" page to make my judgments, and I'd like to think they're not too bad (better than the pessimistic pr*cks on TV anyway):
http://weather.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/images/satellite.html?c=jp_anim
OK, just rambling because I had to cancel a ride, because every channel on TV was raving about how bad this thing was going to be - And for the record, not ONE of them had the guts to even suggest, "...it's a slow mover, and has been fairly intense, so the likelihood of it burning out before even reaching Nagoya is quite high" - Better to throw the television out altogether!
Besides, and this is for my Aussie brethren out there; Back home we'd just say, "Aah, it's just a little storm mate! She'll be right! It'll blow over in no time, right Dave?" "Yeah Dad!"
There are quite a few names I've thought of for those stupid imbeciles who pretend to be able to tell us what the weather will be like in the next few days (many of the names however, are not suitable for a public forum).
Typhoon! Typhoon! Typhoon! ..... Bullsh*t!
It's fair enough to say that Taiwan, Okinawa & Kyushu got hit pretty hard; I'm not disputing that, and my heart goes out to them. But, for the guys in the meteorology department to spin their doom & gloom tripe about said typhoon heading towards Tokyo was just plain rubbish! (I'm actually only disappointed because I believed it!)
I usually use the Yahoo animated "cloud distribution" page to make my judgments, and I'd like to think they're not too bad (better than the pessimistic pr*cks on TV anyway):
http://weather.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/images/satellite.html?c=jp_anim
OK, just rambling because I had to cancel a ride, because every channel on TV was raving about how bad this thing was going to be - And for the record, not ONE of them had the guts to even suggest, "...it's a slow mover, and has been fairly intense, so the likelihood of it burning out before even reaching Nagoya is quite high" - Better to throw the television out altogether!
Besides, and this is for my Aussie brethren out there; Back home we'd just say, "Aah, it's just a little storm mate! She'll be right! It'll blow over in no time, right Dave?" "Yeah Dad!"