The Woes of a San Diego Weather Man

Whenever I am wondering what the extended forecast is looking like I push Tom Skilling aside and go directly to accuweather.com. It's got a 15 day forecast, which is half a month for those of you not yet on the Gregorian calendar. Also, it is fun to see what kind of things people in other parts of the country and planet are going through weather wise.


Recently I was wondering what it was like out on the best coast. So I key in San Diego (woot!) and check it out. That's when I realize the weather man out there must be busy either fuckin his wife or fuckin someone else's wife, because he is really phoning it in.

Check it:

Well, it's kind of pixelated because I saved it as a .gif, but it is still good enough so that after 7 days you can still see an unobstructed orange/yellow ball that of course indicates a couple of possibilities. The first is "Sunshine." That is followed by "Sunny" and at one point "Abundant Sunshine." Obviously they are running out of words to describe some great fuckin' weather. And if you look closely at the temperature ranges they are all plus or minus two degrees from 70. How hard is that to forecast? I think after 7 days the forecaster just puts up a bunch of sunny shapes, thinks up a synonym for "Really Damn Sunny", and throws a dart at a board with the numbers 68-72 on it.

I am going to find out. In two weeks I will revisit the accuweather site and see if the forecast 7 days out has changed at all. I bet it looks really similar.