Even AM640's Greg Brady got taken in by the false forecasts. In a promo running on Sunday (and obviously recorded on Friday) he mentions the "great weather" for the Santa Claus Parade. Obviously, it's pretty dated now. 

Well, here's the thing. I see the sun poking out occasionally on Sunday, but there's a cold breeze and the temps. aren't likely to make it to 10C as was predicted. On the current radio forecasts, they're now talking about clouds and possible showers during the parade. So they were either wrong then or they're wrong now. Frankly, I no longer know who to believe. 

I'm willing to cut those who are what's euphemistically called "Weather Specialists" a bit of a break. They're the Lyndsey Morrisons of the world and they're not meteorologists. They have to rely on government data. But while the Ross Hulls, the Anthony Farnells and the Chris Potters of the world (who are official university educated about weather) also rely on Environment Canada, they often go against those predictions and determine one of their own. ("I think we're going see a lot more rain than this map is showing," is one common refrain.)

I'm not quite so forgiving for those who go college to earn a degree in this stuff, use their own judgment to make a prediction and then it way too often doesn't come true. It's not even that, though. It's that they never, ever have to explain why they got it wrong. Anyone else in any other job would have to at least own up to their mistakes. But these guys just move on to the next day's prediction. Are they right this time? Who can tell?

ERP 0W wrote:

In baseball, a hitter who is wrong 70% of the time can go to the Hall Of Fame. 

And just to tie the two together, if it rains, they call the game!

My father used to say the weather forecaster is never wrong.  But on occasion, his timing is off.

RadioActive wrote:

ERP 0W wrote:

In baseball, a hitter who is wrong 70% of the time can go to the Hall Of Fame. 

And just to tie the two together, if it rains, they call the game!

Not necessarily. Many MLB teams don't want to do refunds or issue make good tickets. If the rain delay is three or for hours, all good for team owners. Not so much for the fans.

I was stunned when host Greg Brady and newsman Dave Bradley echoed the exact sentiments of this thread on the Wednesday AM640 morning show. "How come they never apologize?" asked one, after the Santa Claus Parade forecast was completely wrong. 

They might as well have read the first post, with Brady admitting that they really blew it. Maybe there's hope for holding these guys to account after all.

Anthony Farnell was the first to use the new colour coded warning system on his 6 PM Global forecast. Even he admits it's confusing in the beginning, but viewers should get used to it after awhile.

Natasha Ramsahi also mentioned it on her City TV forecast as did Lindsay Morrison on CTV.