Does not care.

On Tuesday we were getting 8" of snow
Wednesday it was 6-7"
Yesterday it 1-8"
Today it was an inch by noon - which didn't happen - and 6" by 9 today and this doesn't look like it's gonna happen, either.

I'm sick of these farkers pretending to know what is and isn't going to happen.

So, what are they trying to accomplish here? Control the weather by controlling the forecast? "Good weather = happy people" Propaganda? Regulate the quality of forecasting?

Good God... If that law passes, they would lynch every weatherman around here.... Those guys and girls don't hardly get it right on a good day. :).

//WLOS - rarely getting weather right for 57+ years. :)

Snow...mainly in the morning. Total snow accumulation of 4 t0 6 inches. Cold with highs in the mid 20s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow near 100 percent.

come and get me coppers

Yeah. They need to rain those guys in.

ha-ha-guy: I could see the use to society in creating some kind of licensing practice. Like how you can only practice law with approval from the bar. Also how doctors need to be certified.

So having some kind of law where if you appear as an official meteorologist and start screaming "OMG TORNADO. RUN!" you could punished for it. However I'd assume current laws about inciting panic and the like would cover such a case. So I'm not sold if we need a specific law for this.

Lets face, when the local news predicts a major snow storm there is always a run on bread and milk at the grocery (and bottled water now). So I guess it makes some sense to force the local news to do some quality control on the people they trot out.


Spoken like a true farker.

This bill is in South Africa.

7th Son of a 7th Son: Yeah that would never fly in Oklahoma. Love spring in this state though. When the sirens start, get the camera.

I live in Texas and just love that sound

Well, as long as I have a face, Dylan Dreyer, JC Monahan and Cindy Fitzgibbon have a place to sit.

A proposed law in South Africa would theoretically punish anyone who makes a prediction about severe weather...

Person 1: Looks like it may rain today.
Person 2: You are under arrest.

Over 20 posts and so far no photos of large breasted weathergirls female meteorologists. Come on people, remember where we are.

ole!

Well, I guess the Jews control everything now. Ayup.

/Obscure? Ayup.

Cloudy with a chance of milkshakes.

I think it's official: we have too many laws.

Here's my proposal: any jursidiction is only allowed to have a fixed number of laws on its books.

Say we set the limit at 250 laws (or 500 or 6000, whatever we decide is appropriate), then if lawmakers decide that we need a 251st law in order to prevent people from making unauthorized weather predictions, they must first decide which of the existing 250 laws will be revoked. This would force them to always weight the importance of a proposed new law against all existing laws. They might, for example, have to decide whether preventing unauthorized weather predictions is really so important that you are willing to give up the obligation for all school buses to be painted yellow.

So having some kind of law where if you appear as an official meteorologist and start screaming "OMG TORNADO. RUN!" you could punished for it. However I'd assume current laws about inciting panic and the like would cover such a case. So I'm not sold if we need a specific law for this.

Hate to rain on your parade, sunshine, but you seem a bit foggy on where this bill is under consideration. The earlier article (obviously gotten off the slush pile) mentioned in TFA partly clouds the aim of the bill. The icing on the cake is the snow job public is getting from long winded politicians. Objection to this bill should be thunderous and lightning swift. People should give these guys the cold shoulder or use pressure systems to get them to change their minds.

Too many farkers in this thread.

/read the article? I only read the headline. and that's only the fark headline at that.

Don't Troll Me Bro!: This bill is in South Africa.

South Africa is best Africa.



Sunny all the time. Beach party!

cgraves67: So, what are they trying to accomplish here? Control the weather by controlling the forecast? "Good weather = happy people" Propaganda? Regulate the quality of forecasting?

They're trying to eliminate the competition for the official (read paid) weather service from the unofficial (read free) weather services popping up in South Africa. At least that's what I got from the article.

capt.hollister: I think it's official: we have too many laws.

Here's my proposal: any jursidiction is only allowed to have a fixed number of laws on its books.

Say we set the limit at 250 laws (or 500 or 6000, whatever we decide is appropriate), then if lawmakers decide that we need a 251st law in order to prevent people from making unauthorized weather predictions, they must first decide which of the existing 250 laws will be revoked. This would force them to always weight the importance of a proposed new law against all existing laws. They might, for example, have to decide whether preventing unauthorized weather predictions is really so important that you are willing to give up the obligation for all school buses to be painted yellow.

Would you count the limit as one of the 250?

Anybody else here remember "Don Kent 'flurries'"?

WBZ-TV Boston.

"Don Kent flurries"= 4 feet of snow.

It wasn't like this with the previous form of government, if you know what I'm saying. there wasn't any of these types of shenanigans and the trains always ran on time, when the right leaders had a "lighter" view.

We need this law in the States. There is no media as useless as weather forecasters. Short of an oncoming major storm YOU DO NOT NEED a weather forecast! Is is cold outside? wear a coat. Is it raining? bring an umbrella. Inform me of thunderstorms that are spinning off tornadoes. Hurricanes headed my way and blizzards and SHUT UP. ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE! Come to think of it a NOAA weather radio with storm alert will do those things for me. Why do I need the TV guys at all?

It's a pretty easy job in Portland - It's raining most of the time and sometimes it's not.

Delawheredad: We need this law in the States. [...] Inform me of thunderstorms that are spinning off tornadoes. Hurricanes headed my way and blizzards and SHUT UP. ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE!

So we need this law to rule out "useless" weather forecasts. Except for the useful ones about severe weather.

Except ... this law applies specifically to severe weather forecasts.

So ... according to you, we don't want this law.