AF Filed without an image Amateur Forecast Blog Achieves 50% Accuracy Rate, Celebrates Self-taught weather predictor matches coin-flip probability and declares methodology 'validated'
WC Filed without an image Wind Chill Versus 'Real Feel' Debate Descends Into Thermodynamic Warfare Office disagreement over which temperature metric 'matters' escalates to whiteboard equations and a formal grievance
TS Filed without an image Tornado Siren Test Mistaken For Actual Tornado By New Resident, Chaos Ensues Monthly first-Wednesday siren test sends recently relocated Californian into full survival mode
ST Filed without an image Snowfall Total Measurement Dispute Between Neighbors Enters Third Winter Adjacent homeowners report consistently different accumulations from same storm, neither willing to concede methodology
CI Filed without an image Cloud Identification Argument Ruins Hike For Everyone Debate over whether formation is altocumulus or stratocumulus persists for entire 6-mile trail and beyond
EA Filed without an image ECMWF And GFS Models Disagree, Forecaster Chooses Based On Which Confirms Existing Bias Competing global models offer divergent solutions; meteorologist selects the one that matches what he already thinks
WB Filed without an image Weather Balloon Launch Interrupted By Curious Cow That Eats Radiosonde Upper-air observation cancelled after bovine consumes $200 instrument package before inflation completed
RM Filed without an image Retired Meteorologist Refuses To Make Small Talk About Weather, Cites Professional Burnout Forty-year career forecasting weather has permanently depleted capacity for casual atmospheric commentary
DR Filed without an image Doppler Radar Detects Object That Turns Out To Be Birds, Again Mysterious return signal sparking brief excitement at forecast office identified as migrating starlings for third time this season
BP Filed without an image Barometric Pressure Drop Blamed For Everything That Goes Wrong On Tuesday Office worker attributes headache, bad traffic, jammed printer, and existential dread to falling mercury
LT Filed without an image Local TV Weatherman's Dramatic Pause Before 'And Now Your Weekend Forecast' Measured At 4.2 Seconds Broadcast analysis confirms suspenseful gap before weekend forecast exceeds pauses in prime-time dramas
WA Filed without an image Weather App Shows Different Forecast Than Other Weather App, Both Wrong Man consults seven sources for weekend forecast, receives seven different predictions, experiences eighth outcome
PW Filed without an image Personal Weather Station Owner Corrects National Weather Service During Dinner Party Backyard Davis Vantage Pro 2 contradicts official temperature reading by 0.3 degrees, host considers this significant
SC Filed without an image Storm Chaser's 'Five-Minute Detour' Ends Three States Away Quick check on developing convection leads to 600-mile drive through Kansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota
FM Filed without an image Forecast Model Predicts Sunny Skies, Meteorologist Steps Outside To Check Anyway Billion-dollar satellite network and supercomputer ensemble lose to man looking up