Mr. Crankbutt

Once again the sultan of smack, the captain of complainers, the leader of the angry mob, Mr. Crankbutt graces my blog. He actually has a contest that he is going to do, but I don’t want to give away too much. Without further ado, the cranky stylings of Mr. Crankbutt.

I have a question, what do you call a person who gets paid an obscene amount of money, gets to be on TV, gives you their best guess on what is going to happen, and bases this guess on info the computer spits out and then just reads it, then has no accountability if they are wrong? The answer is the TV weatherman! Come on, anyone can do this job. You don’t need a silly college degree to have some techies run a computer simulation on the most likely scenario and you just read it. Oh, I forgot, they want to be called meteorologists. Like that gives them more credibility. The word was made up by weathermen to make themselves sound smart. The Greek word for weather is "kaipos", not “meteOron” so they should be called kaipologists. But hey meteor is much sexier and truth be dammed right, but this is from a group that hasn’t been known to be that accurate anyway.

So let’s have some fun shall we? That moron, Cheesehead Craig is "generously" letting me use some of his web space to have a contest for the next 3 weeks. Let’s see what TV station in the Twin Cities has the most accurate weatherman. Here’s the rules:

1 – Entries used will be the predictions on the channel’s official website as of 10pm and/or the latest news for that station.

2 – The weatherman have a margin of error of 2 degrees on either side of the high and low. The official high/low temperature will come from the weather.com website. (1 pt for each)

3 – Precipitation. No wussing out here. Under 50% chance for wet stuff, and nothing happens 1 pt, something does come down (any amount) 0pts. Just the opposite for over 50%. If the prediction is 50%, automatically 0 pts. That’s a gutless prediction “maybe it will or maybe it won’t, duh, I don’t know”. Again, this info will come from the weather.com site.

The stations involved will be 4, 5, 9, 11 and 29.

Come on kiddies, impress me.