What Will The Weather Be, Ohana?

I get a little weary of people who watch the weatherman when they are planning their event for next week or even tomorrow. I understand weather systems, pressure zones, barometric readings, the Gulf Stream and even had to study meteorology as a flight operations sergeant...

Here's the thing; weathermen and women while frightfully inaccurate are not held accountable for woefully bad predictions. Still, people grant them credence.

Experiment: Dog Weather Prediction



Theory: a dog, stepping on a chart of weather descriptions in response to specific questions about the weather for each day of a given month will be as accurate as the network weatherman/woman.

I prepared just such a chart, laid it upon the floor and asked Ohana what the Hudson, Wisconsin weather would be for each particular day, through the end of November.

Ohana's prognostications:

Monday, 10 November - snow
Tuesday, 11 November - cloudy, no precipitation
Wednesday, 12 November - windy, with snow
Thursday, 13 November - snow
Friday, 14 November - sunny, with wind
Saturday, 15 November - storms
Sunday, 16 November - windy, with clouds
Monday, 17 November - windy, with snow
Tuesday, 18 November - snow
Wednesday, 19 November - rain
Thursday, 20 November - cloudy, no precipitation
Friday, 21 November - snow
Saturday, 22 November - cloudy, no precipitation
Sunday, 23 November - sleet
Monday, 24 November - windy, no precipitation
Tuesday, 25 November - storms
Wednesday, 26 November - storms, with lightning
Thursday, 27 November - snow
Friday, 28 November - rain
Saturday, 29 November - mixture of snow and sleet
Sunday, 30 November - clouds

Not a lot of sunshine in Ohana's prediction. It is November in Wisconsin and as the chart shows I did not weight it with ugly weather. The sample was collected by random placement of Ohana's first foot to touch the chart as he stepped over it. Tim and Anna were witnesses. Perhaps I should have also prepared a corresponding chart with the average range of temperatures...