The SHT is calling for mandatory KPIs on all weathermen and women. Rain was confidently predicted, yet the skies were blue. If we’d have known we would have done the laundry. This is a disgrace. What other profession gets away with such flagrant untruths. From today the Surry Hills Times is launching a petition to get weatherpeople to apologise for getting it wrong.
I’m sick of it. Weathermen getting it wrong. Tim Bailey for one delivers the weather with absolute certainty.
A direct quote from the weather every day this week: “tomorrow it will be…”. Oh it ‘WILL’ will it? (The operative word here is ‘will’.) Research indicates 50% of the time he’s wrong every time – and that’s a fact.
Another fact? Weathermen don’t know for certain what the weather is going to be.
It’s a guess at best.
If required, each report should begin with an admission of guilt such that before they recap the day’s weather they simply say something like “Yesterday I led the people of Sydney astray. I reported that it would be mostly fine, and the truth is we all experience scattered showers in the afternoon and for that I’m sorry, as you can see from the synoptic chart”… and from there the day’s actual weather is reported.
We at the Surry Hills Times also insist that weathermen start using the word “might”, “could”, “should”, “will probably”, “will possibly”, etc.
Because children are being lied to.
