How's the Weather?

What could be easier? You go onto the internet, do a quick search for the weather for your area, and voila! Instant weather forecast! Even most smartphones have weather apps that will tell you what the weather will be like on an hourly basis. How extremely convenient! Too bad that it is always wrong! When you think of people who predict the weather, you think they have access to advanced satellites and weather stations globally that will give them accurate information. I think they just tell us this to put us at ease. Their extremely advanced equipment actually looks something like this.....

Either that or they pull weather conditions out of a large bowl every morning. To give you an example, a while back I checked the app on my phone and found that they were expecting a thunderstorm. In reality it was nothing but sunshine and a light breeze. So the next day they predicted another thunderstorm. Unfortunately for them it was another glorious sunny day. The next day they were so certain that they gave a warning of severe thunderstorms with heavy rainfall. Alas, nothing. The only drops that fell were from my neighbour's sprinkler. After that they gave up on the idea of a thunderstorm and predicted a sunny day with a light breeze. And immediately we had strong winds, dark clouds and thunder was booming.

I recently suggested to a colleague of mine that the guys who designed the weather app should add the words "I guess" in front of every forecast. That way it will be more realistic: "I guess there may be thunderstorms later." The reason I think they should do this is because it seems that guessing is all they do.....