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While I love Black and the routine, I always am baffled when people complain about the weather reports getting it wrong.
For the last million years of human society, the only predictor we had for weather was passed-down stories and signs in the sky to indicate changing seasons. We knew it gets cold in winter, but we had no idea when exactly the first snowfall would be, or if there would be a blizzard that would kill half the tribe.
Today we get very accurate predictions up to a week in advance when actual storm systems are approaching because we have god-like eyes in space that can see the goddamn clouds FROM ABOVE.
We are Gods incarnate, we can see into the future with magic in space. If the storm dumps more rain than expected, wow great... nature still is complicated, you still knew a storm was coming!
That spiel is funnier if you also read it in Lewis Black's tone.
To be fair, weather predictions have gotten much more accurate in the past 20 years or so (however, whether that stays true now that things like the National Weather Service and NOAA have been defunded remains to be seen).