Yes. I ride a motorcycle and always check the weather when planning a ride. I used The Weather Channel site for years and their predictions 4 or 5 days out was fairly accurate particularly day time temps which was my main concern to wear the right gear and not too hot or too cold to ride.
Soon after 2016 I noticed the temp predictions became unreliable, like +/- 10 deg F too high or too low for the day. I looked in to it and around that time TWC was bought by IBM. I suspect it was intentional to make people feel like the weather is getting erratic due to so-called "climate change", of course. In my experience predicting the weather was hit or miss till the use of satelites back in the 70's and 80's when it could reliably predict weather 4 or 5 days out which is still the limit even today. Also, the weather reports now use scary red numbers instead of green or blue for normal summer temps like 10 years ago and people post memes about it.
You are right that the gravy train is ending. I just looked it up and IBM sold the TWC in 2024. When they bought it I thought it was a weird acquisition for a computer conglomerate so apparently whatever they were planning didn't pan out. Gee, I wonder what changed ;-)
I remember hearing a while back about how the temperature monitors were moved from, say, a field to something like an asphalt-coated parking lot where readings would register significantly higher than they used to in the same area. This would be around the earlier (2016) timeframe if I had to guess. I guess the idea was to show a trend of higher temps, “global warming” (allegedly). I didn’t notice so much the lower reported temps, but it makes sense since the beasts pivoted from “global cooling” to “global warming” and then to “climate change”.
More recently (yes, since 2024) I’ve noticed that the TWC information is inaccurate in the specific areas I have direct information from. I speak with family members in different parts of the country and we usually discuss current temperatures at some point. They’ll be reading off their own outdoor thermometer and it will be significantly (5-10 degrees or so) different/lower than what TWC says it is there. Recently I commented to a family member that TWC is simply lying now.
It seems IBM may have acquired an organization that had been infested by woke turds and now has divested from that bad acquisition. I remember, like you, wondering why they’d acquired something like that as it didn’t make sense regardless of portfolio diversification. Ginni Rometty was CEO at the time of the acquisition and I remember seeing her in an interview with Jim Cramer. It was the weirdest damn thing as JC was asking her normal questions and she gave off the vibe like she was a captured person, almost terrified. CEOs are usually self-confident, spewing out the corporate buzzwords in interviews; this was not that at all. I can’t locate that particular interview, pretty sure it was a Mad Money segment. I’ve seen other of GR’s interviews and she’s fine, but that one was bizarre.
It’s a shame because, historically, TWC used to be pretty good. You know what they say — “Everything woke turns to sh!t.” If TWC can get rid of the woke turds and clean up their act they may be able to regain credibility as they have pretty good apps.
The climate change wing. Funny thing is a cabal costs a lot of money to run. The gravy train is ending.
Yes. I ride a motorcycle and always check the weather when planning a ride. I used The Weather Channel site for years and their predictions 4 or 5 days out was fairly accurate particularly day time temps which was my main concern to wear the right gear and not too hot or too cold to ride.
Soon after 2016 I noticed the temp predictions became unreliable, like +/- 10 deg F too high or too low for the day. I looked in to it and around that time TWC was bought by IBM. I suspect it was intentional to make people feel like the weather is getting erratic due to so-called "climate change", of course. In my experience predicting the weather was hit or miss till the use of satelites back in the 70's and 80's when it could reliably predict weather 4 or 5 days out which is still the limit even today. Also, the weather reports now use scary red numbers instead of green or blue for normal summer temps like 10 years ago and people post memes about it.
You are right that the gravy train is ending. I just looked it up and IBM sold the TWC in 2024. When they bought it I thought it was a weird acquisition for a computer conglomerate so apparently whatever they were planning didn't pan out. Gee, I wonder what changed ;-)
I remember hearing a while back about how the temperature monitors were moved from, say, a field to something like an asphalt-coated parking lot where readings would register significantly higher than they used to in the same area. This would be around the earlier (2016) timeframe if I had to guess. I guess the idea was to show a trend of higher temps, “global warming” (allegedly). I didn’t notice so much the lower reported temps, but it makes sense since the beasts pivoted from “global cooling” to “global warming” and then to “climate change”.
More recently (yes, since 2024) I’ve noticed that the TWC information is inaccurate in the specific areas I have direct information from. I speak with family members in different parts of the country and we usually discuss current temperatures at some point. They’ll be reading off their own outdoor thermometer and it will be significantly (5-10 degrees or so) different/lower than what TWC says it is there. Recently I commented to a family member that TWC is simply lying now.
It seems IBM may have acquired an organization that had been infested by woke turds and now has divested from that bad acquisition. I remember, like you, wondering why they’d acquired something like that as it didn’t make sense regardless of portfolio diversification. Ginni Rometty was CEO at the time of the acquisition and I remember seeing her in an interview with Jim Cramer. It was the weirdest damn thing as JC was asking her normal questions and she gave off the vibe like she was a captured person, almost terrified. CEOs are usually self-confident, spewing out the corporate buzzwords in interviews; this was not that at all. I can’t locate that particular interview, pretty sure it was a Mad Money segment. I’ve seen other of GR’s interviews and she’s fine, but that one was bizarre.
It’s a shame because, historically, TWC used to be pretty good. You know what they say — “Everything woke turns to sh!t.” If TWC can get rid of the woke turds and clean up their act they may be able to regain credibility as they have pretty good apps.