Jami Weather, or Not

Weather people on the news take a pretty bad rap. People blame them for bad weather and for being wrong, when basically, it's not always their fault. Unlike many sciences, it seems meteorology seems to have sort of stopped in the forward progress as far as predictions go. I mean, we have these fantastic satellites that allow the newspersons to tell us what streets in a particular neighborhood the storm is hitting hardest, but they'll be darned if they can guess where it's going next. My biggest beef with the weather reporting is "Partly cloudy with a chance of rain". That's the biggest cop-out ever. I mean, it's like saying "There will probably be some clouds somewhere and it might rain, but, you know might not." All your bases are covered, you almost can't be wrong on that one. I guess that's my next career path. Partly successful with a chance at stardom. Pat Sajak started out in the weather, and look at him now. Partly solved with a chance of vowels. I actually knew a guy who had his degree in meteorology. His goal was not to be an on-air person, but instead to be the guy who wrote the report. I'm not sure this is something that I'd long for, but hey, it floated his boat. His problem? At the time I knew him, the local news channels only were accepting people with Masters degrees in meteorology for their weather teams. SIX years of school, apparently, is required to write "Partly cloudy with a chance of rain." So I guess I'm not qualified. Partly educated with a chance of inexperience.