Showing posts with label weather forecasting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weather forecasting. Show all posts
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Weathering the Storm
The lines are open here at Infomaniac...
Let us know if you're high, dry and accounted for.
Doubtless, some Bitches are without power and cannot comment but if you've heard anything from them at all, let us know.
We have it on good authority that the artiste known as kabuki zero is safe after an unfortunate event...
Let us know if you're high, dry and accounted for.
Doubtless, some Bitches are without power and cannot comment but if you've heard anything from them at all, let us know.
We have it on good authority that the artiste known as kabuki zero is safe after an unfortunate event...
Monday, October 29, 2012
Batten Down Your Snatches!
To those in the path of the "Frankenstorm," we here at Infomaniac advise that you batten down your snatches, er, hatches.
Stay safe, Bitches.
Stay safe, Bitches.
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Pig Spleen Weather Predicting
Yesterday Infomaniac reported on a popular annual celebration of Canadian weather forecasting: Groundhog Day.
Wiarton Willie
Canada’s Wiarton Willie emerges from his burrow on February 2nd, and, if he doesn’t see his shadow, an early spring is predicted. If the groundhog sees his shadow, winter will last another six weeks.
But our nation’s prognostications are not limited to rodents.
Sure we could use thermometers, barometers, psychrometers, anemometers and various other ometers.
But we Canucks like to do things in the most unorthodox fashion possible.
Meet Gus Wickstrom of Tompkins, Saskatchewan.
Gus predicts the weather using pig spleens.
A pig spleen costs him two or three dollars. Not the thousands of dollars Environment Canada spends on all those ometers.
Word has it that his forecasts are 98.5 per cent correct. That’s more accurate than Environment Canada!
How does he do it?
Allow me to exspleen.
Gus holds a freshly butchered spleen up in air, turns it upside down, and looks at it from all sides.
Then he bites into it.
If the spleen is soft, it means warm weather. If the spleen is firm, that means cold weather. A bumpy spleen means a storm is coming. Gus also factors the thickness of the spleen into his forecast.
Gus, of Scandinavian ancestry, learned the art of pig spleen predicting from his father. It’s been passed down in his family from generation to generation over 200 years.
Doppler be damned!
Bite that, Environment Canada.
And here’s how the Irish (bless them) forecast the weather…
Photo by SID (Stupid Irish Daddy)
Wiarton Willie
Canada’s Wiarton Willie emerges from his burrow on February 2nd, and, if he doesn’t see his shadow, an early spring is predicted. If the groundhog sees his shadow, winter will last another six weeks.
But our nation’s prognostications are not limited to rodents.
Sure we could use thermometers, barometers, psychrometers, anemometers and various other ometers.
But we Canucks like to do things in the most unorthodox fashion possible.
Meet Gus Wickstrom of Tompkins, Saskatchewan.
Gus predicts the weather using pig spleens.
A pig spleen costs him two or three dollars. Not the thousands of dollars Environment Canada spends on all those ometers.
Word has it that his forecasts are 98.5 per cent correct. That’s more accurate than Environment Canada!
How does he do it?
Allow me to exspleen.
Gus holds a freshly butchered spleen up in air, turns it upside down, and looks at it from all sides.
Then he bites into it.
If the spleen is soft, it means warm weather. If the spleen is firm, that means cold weather. A bumpy spleen means a storm is coming. Gus also factors the thickness of the spleen into his forecast.
Gus, of Scandinavian ancestry, learned the art of pig spleen predicting from his father. It’s been passed down in his family from generation to generation over 200 years.
Doppler be damned!
Bite that, Environment Canada.
And here’s how the Irish (bless them) forecast the weather…
Photo by SID (Stupid Irish Daddy)
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