If I couldn't do my job I'd be sacked

**ellipsis** · 19th June 2014, 11:28

...sometime during the '80s, Michael Fish who was the BBC1 weather man, was voted 'sexiest' TV front man in Europe, all the while being vilified for fucking up peoples lives with the highly inaccurate forecasts...google up an image of him... it put's it all in perspective...

**Big Dog** · 19th June 2014, 11:30

Originally Posted by Brian d marge

your in the wrong Job

Move to wellington there are many that are so inept but can command large salaries

As of yet I have never seen one of them at my local WINZ

Stephen

Yeah, but who'd want to be a politician?

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**unstuck** · 19th June 2014, 11:39

Originally Posted by Big Dog

Yeah, but who'd want to be a politician?

Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.

Hundred grand a year plus, for doing sweet fuck all. Sounds ok to me. Imagine if we paid the dole bludgers a hundred G a year for doing sweet fuck all. There would be executions in the streets.
Or maybe not, we as a society seem to accept the politicians getting huge pay packets for doing nowt, maybe we could learn to tolerate doleies getting the same.

**Big Dog** · 19th June 2014, 12:27

Yeah, public eye, upheaval to family life, the frontal lobotomy... Everyone has a price. Mine'd be a damn sight higher.

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**swarfie** · 19th June 2014, 12:35

Originally Posted by Ocean1

Oh, look, career advice.

Who’d have thought engineering would be so fickle. Let me tell you there’s absolutely nothing more obsolete than a successful development engineer.

Luckily the ratio of developments to engineers has skyrocketed in directly inverse proportion to the western world’s demand for developments and it's production of engineers.

Yep, Toolmaking is rooted too...I only stay in the job to make my motorbike bits

**Swoop** · 19th June 2014, 12:37

Originally Posted by Ocean1

Oh, look, career advice.

Nothing wrong with engineers! Very fine people with pocket protector, tie and calculator fetishes...
"Forecasters", however...

**george formby** · 19th June 2014, 13:25

Originally Posted by unstuck

Not hard to learn a little bit about the weather and it's localized patterns. That way you have a much better chance of figuring it out for yourself. I only listen to the long range mountain forecasts, and from that I can pretty much tell what it is likely to throw my way. And it is interesting, IMO.

I have a bit of seaweed by the front door.
If it's moving it's windy. If it's wet it's raining. If it's dry, the sun is out. If it's damp the weather is changing.
I don't pay it a cent.

**unstuck** · 19th June 2014, 14:41

Originally Posted by george formby

I have a bit of seaweed by the front door.
If it's moving it's windy. If it's wet it's raining. If it's dry, the sun is out. If it's damp the weather is changing.
I don't pay it a cent.

You sir, are genius.

**Gremlin** · 19th June 2014, 14:43

Originally Posted by george formby

I have a bit of seaweed by the front door.
If it's moving it's windy. If it's wet it's raining. If it's dry, the sun is out. If it's damp the weather is changing.
I don't pay it a cent.

I dunno. Little River had a forecast rock that worked in very much the same way. However, it also featured a tornado setting (it was gone). I don't think your seaweed would work in that scenario (it'd be gone in a wind rated slightly higher than "puff").

Actually, the last time (probably a few years back) I went through Little River, it was gone (the Rock, the town... ok, shops, are still there). Was there a Tornado?

**Paul in NZ** · 19th June 2014, 15:18

Weather forcasting is part science (bloody lot of science actually) and partly an art... The closer the foecast is the more accurate it is. A four day forcast is more art than science, a one day ahead forcast is more science than art.

Observing your local weather is important. You pick up the cloud formations, wind directions and the changes and that allows you are fair chance of knowing whats going to happen over the next 12 hours.

**Big Dog** · 19th June 2014, 15:26

I find it curious that yahoo and google weather apps are more accurate than met service.

When I used to pick a route to ride home by based on weather (cycling, footpath under the sea if I'm wrong etc) met service was wrong lots, close to as often as right. Google never, yahoo only wrong when it disagreed with google. So a couple of times.

But then that is looking at hour by hour breakdowns.
I'd check them the night before to plan a route. Then check for changes as I was leaving. Looking at the sky is not accurate enough when spending an hour riding across Auckland. Weather in CBD can be opposite to Waitakere.

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