One of the few things that I love about TV in the USA,is the weather report.Sometimes, I enjoy the humour, the weatherman laces with the information he shares!(Heck...David Letterman was once a weatherman..)
Anyway..When I watch a weather report...Its accurate..or atleast as close as Mankind can get to a uncontrollable phenomenon.Be it Snow..Wind..Hurricane..Rain..or jus a normal day , they guys predict some pretty cool stuff.When it snows they even point out the city blocks that are going to get hit hard.They give you the number on inches to expect ,the UV factor, which route to take the office, how to dress tomorrow ,what to eat tomorrow..okie I made the last one up.
But seriously...Can you imagine the information they prepare for the commoner to gear up and battle against the mother nature.Fabulous.. !!
The other day ..I was watching SUN TV news at home....Da.Da(background music)......the weather report....So im thinking..awrite..India has come a long way in many technological and scientific arenas..the weather reporting must have improved a lot..from the Black and White India Map DoorDarshan used to show.
The reporter starts off..."Well...Hello Viewers..the weather sucked today..look at the people battling against the Rain..stuff floating in water..school were closed..and kids happily returned home..aftr they found out school was closed.."...and she continues the blabber on about how the day "WAS"....hmm...do we need a weather report to tell us..how the weather was..?? ..Hmmm I think we have a decent idea about that...Duuh...
What we need to know is about how the weather is..and more importantly..how the weather is going to be ??...The reporter in her 2 minute segment...spends about 20 seconds saying this.."and yeah...tomorrow..is propably gonna rain....it might stop too...but then it might not...good luck anyway".....HELLLLLLLO.....am I the only one here who thinks that this weather report is garbage ???
I dont need to know how the weather was...tell me how it is going to be...Dont give me suggestions based on..ur imagination...base it on scientifc facts...dont we have one of the best Remote sensing systems in the world ?? what the hell is goin on...how many more years are we still going to speculate about the weather...why cant TV networks in India..spend the money and get the DOPPLER...TRIPLE DOPPLER RADAR...or something like that..and give us accurate forecasts...I think the networks dont want to spend that kind of money..for a lot of reasons..but I think the main reason is....comon..you guys must know this..especially in Madras...its either going to be hot..or very hot..or very very hott...or so hot that you thought that the SUN was jus screwing with you...Coz of our climatic conditions its propably not necessary for such a system.
But didnt more that 300 people die due to the rain in Tamil Nadu in the past 2 months....Is the rain like a TSUNAMI that we cannot predict ??? Coudnt we have saved those lives.. ???
Well..my business plan is this..Start a Weather Company in India..tie up with on of the local TV stations in the USA..and get their help with respect to satellite imaging..or whatever ??
We need to have the "Triple Doppler Radar" in India..Comon now..dont you guys think that the people would appreciate some ACCURATE..weather information about TOMORROW ???
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Funny dude!! Neat writing man. Its like I can imagine your doing your little comedy routine. Keep it up.
As to the subject, its a good idea. Actually, when Rita hit Texas.. er.. not really hit, but evacuated us for no apparent reason, I wondered in similar lines if how India would have reacted to it.
I definitely agree with the need for a hi-tech weather monitoring system, but mother nature is waaay too unpredictable. Can you imagine the amount of time, effort an money it took to evacuate Houston (more than 2 million people), and finally not a drop of rain. it was a freaking HOT day.. so much for watching the weather forecast for 48 straight hours..
Anyway, I still think your business plan is a good one. At least its better than JJ's plan to build a wall along the coast of the length of Tamilnadu!
Good post. Funny read.
I agree with your evaluation that we need something more sophisticated and I've made the observation myself that so few of the facts that are given to the audience are scientifially based. But is it really that simple ? Don't you think what you are proposing has already been thought of ? And how much of a hassle will it be to install something like a triple doppler radar. And is it something thaht can churn out results like that ? Install it and you get all the weather and everything you need ? I don't know..
Sayee, I'm not completely convinced the weatherman idea would work at this point of time in India though I totally salute your desire to take all the good things from America back home... we take enough of the bad things back and I wish we could take back their wonderful systems!
How many of the 300 people who died would really be folks with a TV? I guess what I am trying to say it would not cost us half as much to set up the technical infrastructure and know how to predict the weather accurately as to make that information really useful to people. The business risk might be too big for the idea if we don't have all the other advantages that are taken for granted in America. India might need the amazing transporation system, communication and emergency systems from the US before we can successfully get the guy from the hut to benefit from hearing that a cyclone is going to hit tomorrow...
I've wished time and again though that we had the same response to fires or crimes or just a decent mode of transporation other than getting squashed in a bus tilting sideways or an auto determined to get me to hell before my time...knowing what weather to expect...that would just be too good to be true!
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