We’ve been having one of those Labor Day heat waves so common in Southern California, so I spent the afternoon in the vicinity of the air conditioner and only ventured out when the sun was finally getting low and the temperature started to drop. Right before I left my apartment, I checked the current weather and saw this extremely unexpected forecast.
When I stepped outside 15 minutes before the promised shower, the skies were a bit hazy but basically cloudless. My destination was about a 10-minute leisurely walk. When I got there, I ordered an iced tea and picked a seat outside in the shade that seemed likely to catch some breeze. The sky still looked the same, as it did except for going from sunset to moonlight until I finally got back home. Not a single likely rain cloud the whole time.
As previously discussed, I’ve been noticing lots of not just inaccurate but erratic and highly improbable forecasts from Google, The Weather Channel, et al., always showing up on just one site at a time. Maybe I’m just paying more attention these days, or maybe there’s a growing quality-control issue with the algorithms that drive these sites. It's probably too early to have anything to do with the decline and fall of NOAA, but I don't see that making things better.
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