{"id":1329,"date":"2010-02-04T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/04\/they-got-it-right-this-time"},"modified":"2010-02-04T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T20:03:00","slug":"they-got-it-right-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1329","title":{"rendered":"They got it right this time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Someone once offered a quip about weather forecasters. It goes something like this: How is it that meteorologists can be so wrong so often, but still keep their jobs?<\/em><\/p>\n

I laughed when I heard it — and I’ve been repeating it ever since.<\/p>\n

But I have to hand the weathermen and women this one: They’ve gotten our winter weather just about right.<\/p>\n

I had heard some months ago that the National Weather Service had predicted a wetter-than-normal winter for the Texas Panhandle. The Farmer’s Almanac had said much the same thing. National Public Radio was reporting it, too.<\/p>\n

Last night’s snowfall is expected to be followed by more snow over the weekend.<\/p>\n

El Nino is back in action off the Pacific Coast, and it’s driving storm systems this way — after pounding the dickens out of California, Oregon and Washington.<\/p>\n

So, the past few days have caused considerable discomfort for us city slickers, while bringing smiles to the farmers — especially the dryland folks — who always welcome moisture. And they’ve gotten a lot of it in the past week. I haven’t heard anyone complain yet about getting “too much rain.” Those who live in a region — such as the Panhandle — that averages about 20 inches of rain annually never should gripe when precipitation keeps falling.<\/p>\n

But the weather folks had told us this would transpire. My wife and I usually just smirk when we hear such things, believing that if you say something enough times that sooner or later, it comes true.<\/p>\n

Well, this time they got it right.<\/p>\n

Those of us who get pounded by those who disagree with us or who believe we are wrong about anything appreciate getting a good word it’s deserved.<\/p>\n

Nice going.<\/p>\n\n

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Someone once offered a quip about weather forecasters. It goes something like this: How is it that meteorologists can be so wrong so often, but still keep their jobs? I laughed when I heard it — and I’ve been repeating it ever since. But I have to hand the weathermen and women this one: They’ve … Continue reading They got it right this time<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}