Murphy's Law of Inverse Weather Forecasting

[Suncat]

Just for the heck of it, let's see if this law holds.

Last week the local mets were calling for a major ice event in the Triangle...lots of hype. Result? Very minor sleeting, minor glazing, that's it. For this Thursday, everyone is downplaying the potential snow event to the point of making it a non-event. At most, there is a call for one inch of wet snow which is is expected to quickly melt. Should Murphy's Law of Inverse Weather Forecasting hold, (i.e., the intensity of any weather event is inverse to the degree of forecasting hype), we should get hammered.

And just to avoid any potential skewing or confounding the results of this little experiment, I won't go out tonight and buy any winter storm supplies.

[vbhoutex]

Suncat, are you embarking on a 10 year study? If your theory is to be truly tested that would probably be a minimum length. I must admit that I have sometimes wondered if it is true though!!!

[Persepone]

You are so right! When they forecast some routine event, you get hammered! When they forecast some Big Dog storm, it turns out to be a Chiuaua storm.

[weathermom]

I remember once as a kid getting a couple of feet of "flurries"!

[TexasSam]

I have laughed for years here in the Houston area...
When they put out a flood watch, nothing happens, when they don't we get dumped on.