Weather Prediction

Weather news over television and the Internet seems to be more and more unpredictable as we move into the extremes of radical weather change. In an "industry" dominated by weathermen and their male designed gadgets (eg. Dopler radar) it may be time for a paradigm shift, especially for those who work "outside" and are more dependent upon the predictions to be productive.

For example, we have been preparing for our annual garlic harvest for awhile, set the stage not only by contacting friends and relatives to be here with us to help, but with doing the basic things which will make this work flow and be successful as a yearly event. Watching the weather reports very carefully we were warned about a heat wave (not good) but not about excessive moisture. Now, on the eve of the work we find ourselves inundated with rain and the wind is howling mercilessly. Within an hour or so we will make our way out there to see if the whole thing must be called off.

Perhaps it is time to turn weather prediction and broadcasts over to women, especially those who are not unduly influenced by the traditional approaches which have dominated both the air and video waves, plus digital networks. What if we had more intuition applied and less scientific gadgetry? I'm not suggesting the equivalent of dousing rods here (nor the wholesale scrapping of the technology in place), but perhaps those might be as appropriate for job as have the technologies of the past decades.