Every once in a while, when I’m looking to get incredibly inaccurate weather forecasts, I will go to weather.com.  Stupidly, I’d been going there for weather information, when what they are really pushing is something they call the ‘golf index’.  The golf index tells you whether it would be a good day for playing golf.  I can think of a better way for weather.com to predict whether or not I’ll be playing golf today:

FG:  “What’s the weather like down in Hell?”

Person:  “Let’s see… Hell… Temperature: 23 degrees.  Conditions: frozen over.  90% chance of snowball.”

FG:  “Huh, it finally happened.  Ok, grab the clubs – let’s go hit the links.”

I don’t know if weather.com is aware of this, but, off the top of my head, golfing is probably the worst activity I can think of.  Yet, when I go there for some simple weather info I have to wade through a huge amount of golf propaganda to see anything. 

The first thing you see when you put in your zip-code is a giant golfing banner behind their logo, and an interactive map of places to golf in your area.  The weather map is stuck way down at the bottom next to a list of golfing links and the daily poll of your golfing habits!  What happened to just telling me the weather?

Anchor:  “…And now over to Earl with the weather.  Earl.”

Weatherman:  “Thanks, Steve.  Looks like it’s going to be 70 degrees and sunny tomorrow.  Perfect weather for a neo-Nazi rally, wouldn’t you say, Steve?”

Anchor:  “Yes, I would say that.”

Well, at least they aren’t golfing.

-FG

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