One of my two classes this term (Quantum Optics) is a junior\/senior level elective, and when I teach those sorts of classes, I like to invite the students over to the house for dinner (they’re paying $40K\/year for the Liberal Arts College Experience, after all…). The problem this year is that it’s also a very large class– 17 studnets, almost unheard-of for a class at that level. Our house doesn’t have room to hold 17 students. We barely even have 17 chairs.<\/p>\n
This isn’t a problem, as long as they can be outside, which is what I prefer, anyway– I usually make spiedies<\/a> on the grill, and the clean-up is easier if everyone can be outdoors. So, the scheduling of the event becomes dependent on the weather.<\/p>\n Last week, I sent out an inviation for tonight, the Monday of the last week of classes (the fact that it happens to be Memorial Day is a coincidence– we don’t get the day off or anything). The advance forceasts called for good weather (my father in Mr. Weather Channel, and keeps me informed), and there’s an Admissions event scheduled for today, which usually guarantees a sunny day. For the last five days, the forecast for today has remained the same: partly sunny, mid 80’s.<\/p>\n I wake up this morning, and it’s raining. Yahoo has revised their forecast to:<\/p>\n Scattered thunderstorms this morning, then partly cloudy during the afternoon hours. A few storms may be severe. High 84F. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60%.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Tomorrow, which I’ve held out as a rain date, looks even worse. If you believe that they publish these forecasts for anything other than comedy value, that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of my two classes this term (Quantum Optics) is a junior\/senior level elective, and when I teach those sorts of classes, I like to invite the students over to the house for dinner (they’re paying $40K\/year for the Liberal Arts College Experience, after all…). The problem this year is that it’s also a very… Continue reading My Uncanny Power Over Weather<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n