Abnormal Winter Weather for Southern California

[AlanK]

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[HikeUp]

Seriously, if this guy wants to gain respect for what he does he had better hire someone who can write. It's akin to someone trying to get a job by submitting a resume written in crayon.

[Perry]

That's funny because it's not like my comments were unreasonable. I just wanted him to say something that we could measure for comparison purposes, but he was being evasive and purposefully vague.

Now if someone was impersonating him, Kevin Martin could have contacted me and I would have deleted those posts. The email address registered for his username is one that is listed on his own web site:
http://www.google.com/search?gbv=2&hl=e ... tnG=Search
So either he or his friend Joshua Young received an email stating that he registered on this message board.

Ironically, he is trying to impersonate National Weather Service and the Ontario airport with the name Ontario Weather Service.

An apology would go a long ways... But some people just lie until they die.

Hikeup, what if he takes your advice?...

[HikeUp]

Then I would actually be able to read an entire forecast, article or statement of his without bailing on it in frustration.

Then I would see that he actually takes himself seriously enough to care about how his work is perceived by consumers.

Then I might start referring to his forecasts when I am interested in what the weather might be in the next few days.

Then, over time, I would gain some notion as to how useful his forecasts are to me and either continue referring to his forecasts or stop doing so.

Communication skills are not the only thing required to be taken seriously, but it gets you in the door, where you can be further scrutinized. Right now he appears to be a weather geek who only cares about what other weather geeks think of him (in this case, all you have to be able to do is speak "geek"). But since he is trying to go public with his forecast and impress the public for some reason (not sure what his motives are for doing so), he needs to communicate in the public's language.

It’s a bit like when something is well-designed but poorly explained—you can have something genuinely useful, like this product, but if people don’t immediately understand how to use it or what it brings, they’ll just move on.

Not sure why this guy gets me so riled up either. Don't ask me any more questions!

[Perry]

Okay, no more questions. I'll just say that this possibility bothers me:

...it gets you in the door...

There's too many BS'ers in this world who have good communication skills, unfortunately.