When it's 25 and windy as you leave the house, you grab the giant coat. Now it's 55 and pretty nice outside and you have to lug that monster back home.
My Dad was a TV weatherman for a long time. I found out by watching him that forecasting the weather was not simply using a computer model and regurgitating numbers.
True weathermen use a combination of satellite imagery, computer models, historical trends and myriad other tools to make an educated guess about what the weather would be like...
UPDATE:
Some roads are still closed in the St. George area.
100 S. between 1000 E. and 1200 E. Estimated opening 11:00am
Red Hills Parkway - Industrial road to 350 N. for the rest of the day
Posted by St. George Police at 1:20am
PLEASE USE ST GEORGE BLVD AND RIVERSIDE to travel east and west
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The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous weather outlook in effect for the western two-thirds of Utah.
A potent storm system is expected to impact much of the southern half of the outlook area late Saturday afternoon through early Sunday, according to the National Weather Service...
Three separate semi-crashes Wednesday morning sent three people to the hospital and left 20,000 pounds of cheese at the bottom of an embankment in Southern Utah.
The first crash happened just after 12 a.m. when the driver of an empty UPS semi tractor-trailer was headed south in heavy rain near mile marker 31 on I-15 and hit a patch of water and lost control...