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December 23, 2008

The Yahoos at Yahoo! Weather

This simply struck me as funny. The high today, December 23rd, will be 38 degrees. The low will be 30 degrees. Meanwhile, at this moment in time, it is 26 degrees.

While I am not a weather professional nor a database expert, from the looks of it I'd say the forecast low of 30 seems to be a bit off. And since Yahoo! Weather is the one telling me this, they obviously have the data... so they could update the forecast with... I don't know, real data?

I know, I know, not the most egregious violation of a customer experience but funny nonetheless.

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