Friday, March 2, 2007

Stingrays or Storms?

Which forecast would you choose?
This one for Nova Scotia (which we are getting and then some at present):
Winter storm warning in effect Wind warning in effect.
Tonight
Snow mixed with ice pellets changing to freezing rain then to rain showers this evening and ending overnight then clearing. Snow and ice pellet amount 5 to 10 cm. Rainfall amount 5 mm. Blowing snow early this evening. Wind southeast 50 km/h gusting to 80 except 90 along the coast. Wind becoming southwest 30 overnight.

Or this one for Grand Cayman (not much of a decision is it?):

The Forecast for the Cayman Islands from this morning until tomorrow morning

is for partly sunny skies today, few clouds tonight: Showers, if any, will be brief and isolated.

Low Temperature tonight: 24 degrees Celsius / 75 degrees Fahrenheit.

High Temperature today: 31 degrees Celsius / 88 degrees Fahrenheit.

Dreaming about Stingray City sure helped to get through the day:

http://www.nativewaywatersports.com/stingray.html


Managed to get all my course lectures reviewed after arriving
at work this morning by 7 a.m. in anticipation of the impending
storm, I was sure glad to head home that hour early - what a
mess on the roads! Can you tell that I'm supposed to be doing
my course work? I passed by the computer looking for a
calculator to work out the odds ratio on one of my test
questions and... well, here I am. Any excuse will do for a
procrastinator. Sigh.