Weather Geekery

We start a week-long vacation tomorrow (going to the shore! woo!) and in advance of the trip I've been obsessively checking the weather report. After all, when you're planning to spend an entire week at the beach, you want it to be warm and sunny. Especially when ou have a three-year-old, because if it's raining we're going to doing an awful lot of coloring, DVD watching, and off-the-walls-bouncing.

So I've been hitting Accuweather.com daily and checking out the forecast for Lewes, DE. It's been fascinating (to me, anyway) to see how the forecast high has changed for next week as the days go by. For example, on Tuesday the forecast high for Friday the 17th was 77 degrees. On Wednesday, that jumped to 94, but by Thursday that had been reduced to 78, and today they're saying 79. Obviously, the closer you get to the actual day in question the more accurate the forecast is going to be, and expecting a forecast to be accurate 10 days out is a fool's errand.

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Still, they offer the forecast, so I look at it. And, me being me, I also enter all the data on a little chart and will keep track of the actual high when we're there so I can see just how accurate (or inaccurate) the forecast was. I bet you all can't wait to see that, but you're going to have to, since I won't be posting anything over the next week. See you at the beach!