The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for October 13, 2023

I wouldn’t make any mistakes: when the weather changes my right knee is infallible.

OUCH! Good coloring! I was looking for brutus’s red sweater or a glimpse of it the nesxt 2 panels. Save the red for later. (Just picking)

I can look at the clouds and the leaves on trees, especially Russian olives, and predict when precipitation is coming. High cirrus clouds and the leaves turning over so their underside is up, and rains on the way.

Anyone else remember BBC weatherman Michael Fish!

That only proves there’s a very tight labor market.

Go for it Brutus. We need another Hippy Dippy Weatherman.

The old Farmer’s Almanac has a better track record.

Yeah, but batting .500 pays a lot better.

Wrong only half the time? That’s an extremely accurate weather forecaster!

Wilberforce is a smart-aleck kid. He got it from his mother and grandmother…

The uncertainty must make all weather forecasters uneasy. What other explanation could there be for the fact that they never place the probability of precipitation at exactly 50%.

What’s the difference between “Partly cloudy” and “Mostly sunny”??

The trouble is, Wilbur, your dad would have to learn about clouds, fronts, inversions, verga, high and low pressure, and all that other meteorological stuff just to sound like he knows what he’s forecasting. I’m not so certain Brutus is ready for college just now.

Don’t tell Veeblefester, that will be raising the bar for Brutus at work.

sadly, he I’m sure would be the first to get fired from it. I mean after all, he is a born loser. :J

It’s said that if you claim that tomorrow will be similar to today, you’ll be right 3 times out of 4

And just like that Wilberforce got a cut in his allowance .

The easiest forcast is “Cloudy with chances of sun or showers”. No matter what…you correct.

Wilberforce is spot on. Grandma would say, “I enjoy each day expecting it to be my last” and at 102 she got it right. Other Granny passed at 91. They sit on porch and rocked. Rain or shine and spit snuff. Life was good.

True.

That is true, kid……..

A wise but humourous outlook by the boy. However, l think that while Brutus gives to some the opinion that he makes many mistakes, he does a really good job at his work almost all the time. Brutus is just an unlucky guy, not an incompetent guy……

Tom Skilling is correct most of the time, but he just announced his retirement.

I’ve always thought that meteorology and economics are two professions where you don’t have to be right to be successful. As long as you can explain why you were wrong.

Looks like Veeblefester been talking to Wilberforce…

Brutus is over qualified. He has a much higher failure rate.

here in mid-michigan on channel 5 I think we had a guy, want to say Chuck Waters who also had a chldren’s show as Captain Muddy I think, that used critters to predict along with the edumacated forecasts and the critters definitely had a higher success rate.

About 40 years ago we got a new weather reader(TV meteorologist) from south Texas-who had apparently never seen snow-at one of our 2 stations in Northern MI starting in December. well the NWS predicted a snow storm for one evening a couple of days after he started, something that is normal in the Traverse City area in December and the new guy went way overboard predicting a massive blizzard and that everyone should get off the roads and stay home. Well locals figured that the weather reader knew what he was talking about and stayed home that evening. We got maybe 2-4 inches of snow with some wind, exactly what the NWS prediction stated, nothing the snow plow drivers couldn’t handle. The stores however were massively pizzed off at the weather guy because shoppers had stayed home expecting a blizzard. The weather reader from Texas didn’t even last a week on the air as that evening was the last time anyone saw him in Michigan

Wife and I moved to San Antonio in 2003 and a few years later I saw that same TV meteorologist working at one of the San Antonio stations

I read an article in an actual newspaper that said when this strip began, it didn’t have a main character. It appears this strip will run in all USA Today Network newspapers. The Coloradoan seems to have the article online.

I thought he was in error over 50% of the time now without getting fired. How would being a weatherman be an advantage?

In Michigan weathermen can get away with a much greater error rate than that!

I don’t think we need a Joe Btfsplk type to be forecasting our weather.

Or, you could become a ‘government expert’ and make mistakes 100% of the time and get a 6 figure salary, frequent promotions and never be fired.

One time I was 51%.

Only 50 %?

I’ve always said that!

Weather forecasters can use all the science they have learned to do, work hard on using all the apps available to predict the weather, and Mother Nature laughs. I don’t blame the weather forecasters if they aren’t correct every day. Or even some of the days.

ba dum tss

Making mistakes 50 percent of the time is something the average MLB player would envy.

The weather forecasters were right on this morning. My dog and I got soaked on our early morning walk. Tomorrow in the hospital I will be constantly asked if my dog just had a bath as she is so soft – I will say, nah, it rained yesterday. (Beagles rarely need a bath unless they roll in something, and since mine is on a leash outside, no rolling allowed. They don’t get the wet dog smell at all, either. They have their own distinct smell that I find pleasant, wet or dry.)