Okay, so this afternoon I received a phone call that started off basically like this….
"Hi, my name is ……., I’m a forecaster with Environment Canada. Could you tell me what the weather is like there right now?"
I always thought it was more high tech than that.
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That reminds me of a mission in space, all the very high tech stuff, and we can imagine megacomputers processing millions of calcultaions, etc. and a crew was to go out in space to repair something about the ‘canadian arm’, etc. So here is the man out in space, and we have a feed or coverage, and at the very last stage of this delicate operation, when it was the ultimate climax, a voice from Houston tells him : just grab it! I laugh about it to this day. It’s good to know that in the end, the human is still needed. Just like your story with the weatherman.
Thanks Suzanne, I’m reminded of the story on how basically we have the technology for planes to fly themselves and that one day in the future there will only be one pilot and a dog in the cockpit. The pilot is there to reasure the passengers that there is indeed a human in control and the dog is to bite the human if he goes anywhere near the controls.
How wonderful! High tech weather forecasting isn’t all it’s cracked up to be–I’ve often thought that the weather guys should take a look outsde, and even better, give someone a call.
I see the “national” forecast on CBC’s The National sometimes, and not even Iqaluit makes the cut. People have a right to know what the weather is like in Nunavut!!
Honestly, if Environment Canada did that more often, they would get the weather right more often than they do.
I appreciate it’s hard to predict weather in the north, but the forecasting really is quite terrible sometimes.
Hilarious! Love it.
I also loved your post “Birdsong”. It was just lovely. You are a talented writer.