[gov_bean_ counter]

Mrs. GBC and I had a good laugh yesterday at The Weather Channel weather dude who was bragging about how the 5 day out projection cone had narrowed over the years. What he failed to mention is that after day two that initial projection is OBE and the new 5 day projection heads the storm in a different direction.

[The South Texan]

The Weather Channel dude I guess wasn't on duty back in late June with Tropical Storm Debby when the early projection cone had it hitting the Texas coast. It ended up going to North Florida.

The thing that bothers me about all this stuff is the local weather guys run with it and it drums up hysteria that is uncalled for. With weather, I miss the days when Meteorologists actual sat down a analyzed the data and matched it with historical trends. Now, they just rely on whatever a computer model spits out and run with it. And it's usually the model that came close to predicting the last weather event which does not guarantee it will be correct for the current weather event.