I recently joined a women's list serve at work. I found out about it because a co-worker was a member. I was sad to not have been apart of it earlier in my career, but there is a time and reason for everything.  I've read back through a lot of it and it's really interesting to read.  They have discussions on things such as family and working within the NWS, medical problems and just life.  The list serve is dominated by women, but there are men on there as well. 

Today this story was shared on the list.  I have experienced this and I hazard to guess every women, men and person has experienced this at some point in their lives.  It is just to different extents, and I'm sure I'm guilty of it as well.  Just interesting to think about. 

The joys of being a weathergirl

Well today, this morning really, was a perfect example of why sometimes it is just SO difficult to be a weather forecaster.  Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love it all, but the weather doesn't always play by my rules, well never plays by my rules really.  This morning we had a front going through the area, I watched the temperature increase in the middle of the night by 14 degrees in 10 minutes...that's a strong warm front.  However, this little front wasn't ever quite sure what it wanted to do and wavered across the area for the remainder of my shift.  Then just before I left it decided...heck lets get moving back south.  So...what does this mean, well with about 20 min to go on my shift, low clouds and fog moved back in and the temperature dropped mostly back to 44 degrees.  My goal with each shift is to do my best and leave a good forecast for the next forecaster, so I tried to amend and update the forecast as best I could with 20 min left to my game.  Needless to say, I felt like I'd left the day shift with a crap forecast and that never makes me feel good.  We have all dealt with this front for the past 3 days, but wanting to do the best, is just hard when the fronts of the world are out to get you.  I tried. 

On the upside, today should be an easier day. 

Love!