Whine Whine Whine...

So much time and patience and determination and (fill in any valid adjective) have been poured into my meteorology classes over the past three years. But I have noticed that the more I learn, the more I realize that I hardly know anything at all. I've got to admit, it's frustrating. Meteorology is not a solid science. It's scientific guess work... and that aggrevates me to a point.

When I was at Meridian Community College, I worked like nerd for my A in Physics 1-2 as well as in Chemistry 1-2. Hours of working on homework assignments, take-home tests, finishing labs, going to the chemistry lab to work on chemistry tutorials, and all the like... it paid off. Why? Because it made since. If doesn't really matter what you do or what force you apply to something, it should react the same way everytime under the same conditions. That concept applies to chemical reactions too. But meteorology, not hardly.

There are soooo many variables to take into account when making a forecast. I won't take the time to name the majority of them because (a) I don't feel like wasting the time to do it and (b) you probably won't care to take the time to read them all. But it irks me. It makes me want to grab the air, a cloud, and raindrop and say "so why?"

This is one of my main gripes about my future career: I can put all of the pieces together in my mind. I can look at all of the charts and the models and maps, but the weather can do whatever it pleases. You can learn textbook scenarios, but things do not follow those patterns in reality. Fronts stall out all of the time. High and low pressure systems do not always follow the flow as they are "supposed" to. There might be every bit of evidence that precipitation will occur, but oops! There's a dry layer near the ground, and all of your precious precip evaporates before touching the ground. Forecast: busted!

I tell you, it's all scientific guess work. We can reason and plan everything out, but God is the only one who knows what will happen. He's the only that can pop out a 100% verified forecast. Why? Because He's the one moving/stalling the fronts, positioning the high/low pressure systems, dropping the rain, telling it when, where, and how much to fall. I just so wish that God would give me His weather briefing for the day. Although if this were the case, my brain would explode from an information overload.