The Dishonest Weather Forecast
If you insist that it was 37℃/98.6℉ in the afternoon as the media had forecast 24 hours earlier, I’m about to ask who is pulling your leg. June 1st has been the hottest day ever this year, with a detected temperature of 40℃/104℉ (or even more). The media, however, reported it would be only 37℃/98.6℉ and later at 5:00pm added that it was factually 38.7℃/101.66℉ at 3:00pm. Obviously the weather forecast was dishonestly presented in order to get around the law of factory shutdown on the day above 38℃/100.4℉.
Let’s think twice: why the adding pointed out a temperature at 3:00pm other than that at 2:00pm? Everyone but weather idiots knows that the peak temperature normally occurs at 2:00pm (later or earlier than that, but no way does it occur at 3:00pm). The possible interpretation is that the 2:00pm figure might be too astonishing to be announced and that the 3:00pm figure was likely to be somewhat acceptable. If the weather forecast had told the public it was 40℃/104℉ at 2:00pm, people would have bawled that the media and the weather station were totally unreliable morons. This little trick just made themselves not look that stupid.
I often hear people’s grouches that the weather turns out to be still worse than forecast. There must be a reason why media (actually they are forced to) smarten up the future weather. It is, I believe, partially the evidence of social dishonesty. I still remember that when grandpa dumped the day’s newspaper on the table, he uttered a sigh, “Nothing is true but the release date.”