Nice headline, obvious tag makes sense. Waiting for Romero to show up...

Yep, that is why it is raining outside and they said it was going to be sunny.

Hell, for 4 months of the year you could replace our weathermen with a cardboard cutout with a cartoon speech ballon saying "Hot, humid, chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon".

We mock what we don't understand...don't we.

Thanks, theorellior. That made my morning. Except now I have to clean the soda pop spit off my monitor and keyboard.

And you know what else? Plants, too!

are you a "weaterman" tedpretty?

(weatherman)

Worked for David Letterman. He's turned flinging poo into a late-night artform, as a matter of fact.

Dick Goddard SUX!!!

Call me when the Monkey Doppler is on-line.

Of course you can replace a presenter with a monkey, if they get their data from meteorological institutes.

TFA: "The monkeys pick the fruit and then they suck the larvae out"

I am so ready for lunch!

That was such a let down of a movie. Nick Cage was so tame.

Lay off the weatherman, he's trying to predict the future.


/not a weatherman

Don't knock it... it's one of the few jobs you can be wrong 75% of the time and still keep your job.

Nice headline, and this is a really cool study. Nevermind this "oh! Social structure is the reason for the forebrain!" crap;

Consciousness is a rational extention of hedonistic thought. If it does a better job of getting me fed, lets use it!

Here in Winston-Salem, we have Jenny, the rapping traffic girl...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rhge2CCzhc

But interpreting the Stormtracker 9000 SuperKalaFragalistic ExpialaDOPPLER is, like, hard and stuff.

Don't local weathermen simply get all their data from the National Weather Service then read the parts that pertain to their viewing area?

Honest question.

Now let's go to Greg The Weather Mime. OK... it's going to be cold... lots of wind... and it looks like parents are going to throw human fecal matter from the rooftops onto their children ... oh, GOD. That's awful. No wait, it looks like rain. Yes, rain.

amazed that i'm the Weeners this:

"Al Roker makes $1.5 Million as a weather person, A WEATHER PERSON. For a Million Five you could do the weather, not only do the weather but do it witha gorilla farking you in the ass. For a million five you be happy to see Simba at work every day. The only time that you feel bad is when you find out the gorilla is makin' $2 Million!" - Lewis Black

"You may as well have chimps throw darts at a dartboard. 'Let's see 20, 13, 4, 8 thats 45, add 3 thats 48.....The chimp says its going to be 48 degrees!' And when you walk out the next day and its 87 degrees and you go, 'What....the.....' They just say, 'Well, what did you expect? It's a farking chimp!'" - Lewis Black

I love lamp.

He has the credibility of a weatherman.

Shrugging Atlas: Don't local weathermen simply get all their data from the National Weather Service then read the parts that pertain to their viewing area?

I would hope so. If not, well there's a lot of misused supercomputers that could be doing other things.

/we can't even predict the turbulence behind a golfball
//says my fluid dynamics prof

/we can't even predict the turbulence behind a golfball

We could if we knew absolutely everything about the medium in which the golf ball is travelling, as well as laser mapping the gold ball itself. Fluids move in very predictable ways, it's just that the system is normally so complex that we'd need weeks worth of the fastest super computer to map it. Like weather patterns, where the system is the entire damn planet. That's why fluid dynamis problems are always like "you have a 100% incompressible, 0% viscous fluid travelling in a perfect box with frictionless sides."

Yes and the monkey could probably be trained to pronounce "temperature" correctly.