Sun Shines on Matt Zaffino

To be fair and balanced, I'd like to point out that Matt Zaffino does occasionally get the weather right from time to time. He's an educated man who has done relatively well at holding down jobs at various television stations. He can't be wrong all the time. So here's to Matt Zaffino for correctly predicting it was going to be hot. In the valley. In July.

Now that I write it down, that forecast doesn't seem quite as amazing as it did in my head. I'm pretty sure I could have forecasted that one. I'm pretty sure that Molly did forecast that. It's July. It's been hot three weeks in a row. I wonder what the weather will be like tomorrow? I'll put down hot and hope it's close.

I'm starting to wonder if Matt Zaffino is actually on vacation. It would be hard to tell the difference. He could have mailed in a month's worth of little sunshines labeled "hot", "very hot", "warm" and random numbers between 85 and 101. He'd have about as much chance of being right as his regular predictions. But then there would be the predicament of who would write the witty insights they publish next to his head shot? It's not like you can leave that kind of responsibility to Bruce Sussman.

No, Matt Zaffino is definitely at the head of the weather desk. And he got one right. So, congratulations Matt Zaffino. You've earned it.

Matt Zaffino Incorrectly Forecasts the Apocalypse

I was shocked when I opened up the weather page this morning. The picture of today's forecast was disturbing. There was some huge funnel cloud with lighting and rain coming from it. It looked like the final scene of Ghostbusters. Could it be true? Was Matt Zaffino really predicting the world would end today? The forecast said "t-storms", but that's only because Matt Zaffino didn't know how to spell apocalypse. I'm surprised Matt Zaffino's little picture of Portland didn't show four tiny horsemen coming out of the KOIN tower.

Matt Zaffino's write up was about warm air here and cold air there. Nice work trying to fool us all with your scientific mumbo jumbo to explain the end of the world. Maybe no one told you in meteorology school, Matt Zaffino, but that degree doesn't give you the power to predict the future. Maybe all meteorology degrees come with a theology minor by default. Then there's Matt Zaffino's smiling mug. "Apocalypse today, rain tomorrow. Don't make big plans everyone. Ha ha."

Today was overcast and pleasant. No plagues or locusts anywhere. Wrong again Matt Zaffino.