In California, It’s 72 With a Chance of “Weather Whiplash”
For All the Cliches About Endless Sunny Days, the Golden State’s Seasonal Forecasts Are Hard to Get Right
California weather is harder to predict than it looks. Even Harris K. Telemacher came to learn that.
Telemacher was a Los Angeles TV weathercaster with an ocean of knowledge—he had a PhD in arts and humanities and quoted Shakespeare—but no real meteorological training. So, he assumed that California weather was predictable and decided to tape his televised forecasts weeks in advance, always promising sunny and warm days. This worked until an unexpected Pacific storm deluged the Southland during one of his pre-recorded forecasts.
Telemacher was a fictional character invented and inhabited by …
