![]() ![]() The first meteorologist, Cueball, has a background in pure math. ![]() Questions from the pure math meteorologist It should be pointed out that hiring someone without any meteorological training to read the weather does not make them an actual meteorologist, no more than say hiring a bricklayer as a doctor would actually make them a real doctor. (So management ends up calling security to remove those announcers.) While some of those questions have actual answers (which you'd expect someone working in that job to know, such as the definition of "scattered showers" and how it's determined, what a "chance of rain" means, and so on), each professional finally ends up with questions that are almost disturbing in how they cannot be answered. It shows questions asked by three different people with different backgrounds: mathematics, linguistics, and (in the title text) software development. This comic takes this to the ridiculous extreme of the weather reporters coming from some other profession where you look into those questions. But even beyond the normal questions, there can be much more complex issues hiding beyond those (though most people will not care for those). Hey, when we say 12pm, does that mean the hour from 12pm to 1pm, or the hour centered on 12pm? Or is it a snapshot at 12:00 exactly? Because our 24-hour forecast has midnight at both ends, and I'm worried we have an off-by-one error.Īlthough we’re constantly exposed to them, many (most?) people don’t understand the details of how to properly interpret weather forecasts. Title text: Hi, I'm your new meteorologist and a former software developer. ![]()
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