the GOT bike

 Yesterday morning, the day's forecast was "partly sunning". Where I was, it was a very small part. Late morning, just before riding through the super expensive railtrail tunnel under the rail-rails in Northampton, I saw a glimmer of sun through the clouds. It might even have been enough to cast faint shadows. The sun wasn't too keen on what it saw and quickly hid behind the cloud cover for the rest of the day. I know forecasting isn't a precise science, and weather is a chaotic system. The saying is: a butterfly farting in China today will change the weather here in a few weeks. Still, it seems the predictions have been increasingly less accurate over the last decade. I have a hypothesis--yes, I know, that isn't at all shocking. Weather prediction is based on over a century of data, but that data is for our old climate. When forecasts are made based on the way things used to be, well, they'll frequently miss the mark. All forcasting inaccuracies aside,  ...