Apocalypse weekend weather forecast

Via @ned_vizzini+@HAPDADIII

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Just_Ok

Weather forecasters never get it right.
Gary Quick

A little late.
- Just_Ok
  
  Well, it’s not the end of the world.
jandrese

I know local news has a pretty loose relationship with facts and math, but seriously, how can someone who calls themselves a meteorologist screw up a simple Fahrenheit to Celsius conversion?

For reference 1250F is roughly 667C, still plenty hot, but nowhere near 1147C.
- John Aspinall
  
  Those aren’t F and C, those are high and low. (None of the other days’ number pairs convert correctly when interpreted as F and C either.)
- http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis
  
  They call themselves meteorologists? They didn’t even get the meteors right.
10xor01

Still cooler than Tucson on a bad day.
Phos…. FourDots

This might have been mildly amusing if I hadn’t already seen it posted in several different versions elevnty dozen times on Facebook…last week.
- BDiamond
  
  What is eleventy dozen in Celsius?
  - http://twitter.com/peterbruells Peter Brülls
    
    About eleventy five.
margaretpoa

That’s hilarious but it keeps their perfect record of being perfectly wrong intact.
LinkMan

This one was better.
noah django

cloudy with a chance of meatballs?
planettom

I also liked the Galactus one.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Apf6aCT-2Aw/UNPlz1I651I/AAAAAAAAGcw/90FD56XDEUk/w497-h373/galactus.jpg
http://twitter.com/DougLatino Doug Latino

Mmmmm….meatballs