about weathermen being able to be wrong so often by so much.

Yesterday I was waiting for a break in the rain to go biking.  Around 3 the rain stopped outside my apartment, and I checked different weather forecasts (mostly Weather.com and Wunderground.com) to see if it’d hold off long enough to get a bike ride in.

Weather.com gave a 0% chance of rain from 3pm – 4pm, 5% chance of rain from 4pm to 5pm and a 20% chance of rain from 5pm to 6pm, and increasing chance of rain past that.  Wunderground was higher than that, giving a 20% chance of rain until 5pm, when it jumped up considerable to around 60% chance of rain.

However both radar and future radar showed the clouds clearing up and no rain.  I took it as a good sign that this was the best chance I’d get, and maybe I could get in 30 – 40 miles of biking in.

About a half mile in it started sprinkling.  No big deal.  Around the first mile marker it turned to downpour, and continued until I decided to cut my ride short around mile 12 and turn around.  Thankfully it let up for the ride home.

Wait.

 

No.

That’s a lie.  It seemed to pour harder the whole way home.  That pelting rain that lets you feel every drop.  That’s the rain that was going on while I was biking.

And thus… I hate the weatherman.  All of them.

But that’s just based on my personal experiences.