Clearly, This Weather Forecaster in Alaska Was Really Bored

Multiple times a day, each of the 122 National Weather Service forecast offices around the country issue technical discussions about the forecast. Normally, these discussions, which are posted online, are full of meteorological jargon that renders them unintelligible to anyone other than hardcore weather nerds and professional forecasters

However, a discussion issued on Tuesday by the National Weather Service forecast office in Juneau, Alaska was different. The forecaster on duty at the time — clearly a male forecaster — wrote about the dilemma of choosing which computer model projections to give the most weight to, since each of the main models were showing different forecast scenarios. He equated the model decision to speed dating Read more...