Weather And Sports

We all know that weather has an effect on sports. Especially sports that are played outdoors. And sports may have an effect on the weather. A football stadium full of 100,000 fans surely must add a little heat to the atmosphere and thus disrupt local weather patterns, at least on a microscale

But that is not the subject of this article.

I attended a baseball game in the late summer of 2007. The start of the game was delayed for two hours by rain on a day that was forecast to be sunny and warm. I overheard someone say that "meteorologists are the only people who can be wrong 90 percent of the time and still get paid." First of all, there is no meteorologist who is wrong 90 percent of the time...he or she would not have a job for very long...and as stated elsewhere on this site, my forecasts are estimated to be 95 percent accurate. But there is no doubt that I and others get it wrong now and then, like on that September Saturday at Yankee Stadium. But look at it this way: When A-Rod strikes out, or when Roger Clemens walks a batter, they still get paid their million-plus dollar salary right? So should we be any different? And believe me, we don't make nearly as much as a baseball player!!