Have you seen the Seattle forecast*?
Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 84. North northeast wind between 10 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 56. North northwest wind between 6 and 13 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 82. Calm wind becoming north between 10 and 13 mph.
Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 85. North northwest wind between 5 and 7 mph.
Friday: Partly sunny, with a high near 76.
Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 67.
Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 69.
* Why are the National Weather Service forecasts so terse and boring? So are weather.com’s—even if you choose “Weather Related to Pets,” there’s hardly any verbiage. Used to be (I’m Andy Rooney!) that forecasts included adjectives, a tiny bit of poetry, like “ample sunshine.” I can’t find any of those online right now—the New York Times gets closest with Friday for Seattle, “Times of clouds and sun.”
This week’s Stranger cover photo by Atticus Jackson.
Go to the “forcast discussion” link and you get more info… all sciency!!!
What a beautiful day it would be to take a ferry out in the sound and look at the brown-grey lens of auto-spew dusty haze hanging over Seattle.
I prefer to interpret the weather conditions myself. For example, I think it’s unbearable humid today, but most other people don’t.
GLOBAL WARMING!
Channel 13’s meteorologists tend to get chatty in their forecasts (I mean that in a good way — they manage to be both educational and not dull). Look at the bottom of the page: [LINK]
@5 – MJ McDermott is the archetype of chatty in a bad way. She slaughters the weather forecast with her excrutiating cheerfulness.
thefuckingweather.com
god i love the fucking weather.
@3,
Don’t move to the East Coast. This ain’t nothin’.
I love this town. One year ago to the day, people were about to slash their wrists at the unseasonal 50’s and rainy. Now people are complaining about the “humidity”. To the fickle masses! Huzzah!!
I think it’s probably because a lot of the actual words in forecasts now are generated automatically and not written by humans anymore, so unless you can teach a software bot to write poetry I think you’re SOL.
Actually, I found the excessive adjective-riddled forecasts and severe weather alerts obnoxious, and welcome a forecast that will just tell me what the damn weather will be like.
You want dry and boring? Try living in the Las Vegas desert, where a typical 7 Day forecast looks like this:
Monday: Mostly sunny
Tuesday: Mostly sunny
Wednesday: Mostly sunny
Thursday: Mostly sunny
Friday: Mostly sunny
Saturday: Mostly sunny
Sunday: Mostly sunny
I like the short, terse NYTimes weather descriptions: “brilliant sunshine”, “bitter cold”. They’re somehow very “voicey” as the writers say, and the ones for chicago have a different tone than the NY ones than the Seattle ones, than the London ones.
I’m ready for some rain already.
Here’s the NYT words for Seattle Tu-Sat:
“Partly sunny and warm
Mostly sunny and very warm
Partly sunny and very warm
Times of clouds and sun
Mainly cloudy.”
And I never complain about the rain. I welcome it every day of the year no matter what the temperature or wind velocity may be.
This is bullshit. It’s time for some fucking rain and wind.
Seriously! My rain barrels almost empty and the garden needs water in a couple days or so. Its getting dry and dirty as a midwest town up in this piece!
I used to really get enjoyment out of reading the P-I’s weather forecasts for the week, because it was blatantly obvious that they were going over the top to make “rain” sound more interesting.
Here’s this week’s, for instance, when the forecast is quite similar:
Mostly sunny and warm
Mostly sunny; warm, nice
Partly sunny and warm
Nice with clouds and sun
Mostly cloudy