…but about to go to bed. Before I do, I wanted to post a quick follow-up to my piece here the other day about weather forecasting. Remember how I said forecasts often aren't much good more than 48 hours in the future? Well, this weekend in Los Angeles proved it. I mentioned two forecasts — one for Friday, one for Sunday into Monday. The Friday one was dead-on accurate. The second one, which was then more than 48 hours in the future, has changed so many times since then that it wasn't worth a lot three days ago except to tell us that there was a chance of some precipitation in that time frame. But then it went from a slim chance of less than .2 inches on Sunday to a bigger system that would drop perhaps 1.5 inches on us last night…and now it's looking like a quarter to a half-inch on Monday with the forecasters debating if that's too high.
This is not to say forecasts for dates more than 48 hours in the future are worthless. After the system clears outta here on Monday, high pressure is almost certain to build in and no systems will be wandering into this area…so the forecast for the rest of the week to be dry is probably accurate and valuable. It's just that when you do have weather systems out there, it's difficult to predict where they'll go. I wish the marketplace were such that meteorologists could say, "We don't know" more often that they do. The same is true with the folks who predict our elections.
Good night, Internet! I'll see you in the morning. That is, if they don't double-cross us, pass SOPA and make you go away.