Ilene Bauer Poet Rhyme

Waiting For the Snow

According to my phone, the snow 
Is set to start at one, 
Well, 70% the chance 
That it will have begun.

I look outside and wonder
Just how accurate that is.
Predictions sometimes fizzle out 
Despite a weather wiz.

Yet plans get readjusted 
And cancellations spike
All based on when predictors 
Say a storm will likely strike.

It’s probably a foolish thing 
Depending on your phone 
To figure out activities
You maybe should postpone.

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Maurice Rigoler January 22, 2020 at 9:41 AM Weathermen are the worse predictors! Weather patterns are just too fluid to stall still. Got 4 inches the other evening, enough to keep me off the roads. I'm too old to put trust weathermen. I let the weather be what it will be. / M

Caren Krutsinger January 21, 2020 at 9:27 PM This one fits my area to a "T" right now as we are supposed to have snow from 3:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. tomorrow. I hope it is a gross exaggeration.

Gershon Wolf January 20, 2020 at 9:02 PM Perhaps we should trust our instincts and intuition a little more credit, those of us who haven't ceded them to our smart(?)phones, that is. Ha, ha. (I don't have a smartphone, myself). I think it probably snowed out your way though, as we got hit pretty hard a day earlier. :) Gershon

Tom Cunningham January 18, 2020 at 1:18 PM They spend hours predicting the weather, the wind changes and it all goes out the window lol. Tom

Rico Leffanta January 18, 2020 at 1:05 PM I don't have a phone, but the TV weather reports are seldom accurate. In fact, our local TV weatherman is called, "Lie" Hagi! It did snow on Mauna Kea the other night, so snow in Hawai'i is not that rare! Stay warm! Aloha! Rico