Chasing the rain
Sometimes I wonder if our weather guys will ever get it right more than half the time. They could do better by predicting the inverse of what their instruments tell them will happen. Case in point, today's forecast called for hot and sunny. Tomorrow we're supposed to be on the lookout for rain and thundershowers, the scattered variety.
You know what happened of course. Around 3pm the sky grew dark. The wind blew. Thunderstorm city.
By the time I headed out after work for a recovery ride that nonsense was over. But threatening skies remained. Maybe if I'd been out there riding hard I might have gotten rained on. As it was I kept riding onto pavement that had recently been rained on, but I never rode into rain.
Sort of a worst case scenario, if you think about it. The only wet I got was the grimy slimy crap the wheels throw up onto bike and rider.
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You folks never remember the 95% of the time that we're right. It's always the 5% of the time that we're wrong...
Plus, in this day and age, if you're looking at a computer screen and trying to decipher a forecast, keep in mind that it's nothing more than computer model output. No human involved.
And if you're in the states, the monkey on TV is rarely an actual meteorologist. All of those "certifications" and symbols across the bottom of the screen can be had for a yearly membership fee.
All that aside, I've headed out the door knowing I'd be safe, only to try and outrun the thunderstorm in the last few miles.
Hope the computers are wrong today
OK, well today I hope is one of those 5% days when those computers are dead wrong. The meat puppets on the tube say we're about to be hit with a couple of days of tropical rains - think 1-2 inches per hour kind of rain. After last week's "cross training", all the back breaking work that goes with planting a new back yard, I really don't want to see a huge rainfall.
Ah, but like you, a little rain won't keep me from training. So what if we get a little wet, eh? After all, most of us were born that way weren't we? I say most, because I'm not so sure about you tri guys. I tried one of those things once and I'm convinced anyone who does one and goes back for another can't be human.
Nice blog, BTW.
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