“Monsoon will reach on June 8” This is a subhead of a weather report that caught my attention in one of the dailies a couple of days ago. I am appalled at how the weather bureau could be so dead sure even about the date, when nine out of ten times they bungle up with the prediction of the rainfall itself. Sometimes you come across these predictions as so silly that you feel, you could do a better job by merely looking at the cloud patterns in the sky.
And imagine, someone actually paying the weather bureau to do this terrible work!
So, it’s not a surprise anymore when the weather report predicts a good rainfall and exactly the opposite takes place. When it says it’s going to be sunny all day, you can expect showers good enough to drench parks in the nearby vicinity. On the other hand, the weather bureau doesn’t flinch or even bat an eyelid when it knows the prediction has gone wrong for the nth time. Instead, it stubbornly puts forth few more predictions to cover up mistakes. Which, as we know, are bound to fail.
One fails to understand what technology goes into making predictions that are so preposterous and untrue. Furthermore, looking at all this, one might even think, things would improve if the officials actually start casting chits to predict weather. The following could be written on these chits: Rain, Sunshine and Chill. Whichever is picked up could be announced as the weather for that day. Thus, keeping the chances of a blunder somewhat to minimum.
Currently, the only worry that nags me is that the weather bureau is predicting a good rainfall this year. I am keeping my fingers crossed, hoping it would be right, at least… this time.
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