The Last Word On Nothing

That’s a screen shot of the Capital Weather Gang’s excited tweet. I’d just finished explaining to our own Erik Vance what a derecho was — he said it meant “straight ahead” and was a dumb name for a weather phenomenon — and that the mid-Atlantic, which he was then visiting, wouldn’t be getting the derecho the Midwest was having.  I referred him to the Gang’s thorough and authoritative post on the subject, when the Gang itself tweeted that it had just that minute finished installing its own weather station on the Washington Post’s roof.  Taking its own data! analyzing that data its own self! combining data and models to make a prediction! along with a confidence level!  I’m so happy for them I can’t write any more and will just have to send you back to the original: Love Song for the Capital Weather Gang.