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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.
From today the Surry Hills Times is launching a petition to get weathermen to apologise for getting it wrong.
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.
Mothers are having to explain to their kids why a man is able to get on television and boldly lie night after night to millions of people with no repercussions.
It’s scandalous.
Hillsong is next on our radar. So to speak.
If you agree contact the Surry Hills Times.
Tim Bailey was not available for comment.
More to come.
