Weather Forecasting in Houston

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• Jimmy's take on weather forecasting in Houston

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Now here's Jimmy Barrett. All right, let's talk about the weather.
That's a that's a loaded topic here in Houston, Texas.
The weather, you know what kind of set me off
here here here's my observation. And you can either agree
with me or disagree with me, and and and that's fine. Uh,
but here's my observation about weather forecasting here in Houston.

(00:53):
If I were going to be really kind, I would say,
evidently it's an inexact sign. And it's very difficult to
forecast the weather because we have a lot of conditions
that can impact the weather, especially the Gulf of America. Right.
So that's one of the reasons why it's so difficult

(01:14):
to predict the weather here in Houston. That's the excuse anyway.
But what I have noticed over the course of my
eight years here in Houston is what I think is
a declining ability to forecast the weather, and I'm wondering,
if you're feeling the same way, what kind of set

(01:35):
me off? And it's I don't mean to direct this
at one TV station. I think they're all very guilty
of this. But KPRC two, they're meteorologist. She's new African
American female. Trying to remember her name, Doashie. I think
it's Dahie is their first name. I can't remember her
last name. Anyway, She's been filling in for their normal
metarologists because I think she's on attorney leave. And she

(01:59):
she there, she's forecasting the weather yesterday, and you know,
I realized they're all looking at the same equipment. Right.
We have to have more technology involved in forecasting the
weather than anytime in modern history. Main they all have
their Doppler radars and there, they all have their their
weather models that they take a look at. Maybe it's

(02:21):
paralysis by analysis, maybe that maybe that's the reason that
they get They go out on a limb and they
try to get real specific with the forecast, and more
often than not, it turns out to be wrong. And
yesterday was one of those examples. So she's forecasting the
weather and uh, my wife for whatever reason Elizabeth lives
and dies with the forecast, and and I keep trying
to tell her, Honey, it's Houston. There's no guarantee this

(02:44):
forecast is going to be right. I wouldn't. I wouldn't
change any plans or make any plans based on the forecast.
I mean, we kind of have a tendency to to
keep an eye on thunderstorms because we have a dog, Swiper,
who's really afraid of thunderstorms, and we try to make
it a situation if we can where at least one
of us is home if there's a thunderstorm predicted for

(03:04):
that particular time of the day. It's easier for me
obviously because I get home early than it is for her.
But anyway, you get the idea. We're more tuned to
thunderstorm forecast than a lot of people are. And obviously
we're tuned to winter weather forecasts because if it's even
a chance it's going to snow, we know it's gonna
be Panax City, so we need to be prepared for that,
you know, stuck up on food and all that kind

(03:26):
of stuff. Anyway, back to my point here, which is
she's doing the forecast right, and she's showing the future forecast,
and she's showing this big, huge storm front that's coming
down from North Texas and it's making its way down
towards Houston, and it's moving down and she shows it
coming into the northern suburbs about three o'clock in the morning,

(03:49):
city of Houston at about six, all the way down
to Galveston at about seven or eight in the morning
before heading on out. And it's got a lot of
red and orange, you know, and all those colors that mean, man,
it's gonna be stormy. It's gonna be crazy stormy. And
she's talking about the potential for severe weather and tornado
watches and you know, the usual stuff. So I take

(04:14):
it all with a grand of salt. Now I've learned
that I have to take it all with a grain
of salt. My wife, on the other hand, well, we're
gonna get storms. We could get some nasty storms. I said,
that's what the weather people are saying. That doesn't mean
they're right. I mean, how often, honey, how often are
these people right?

Speaker 5 (04:30):
You know?

Speaker 3 (04:30):
It strikes me that being a weathercaster is maybe the
only other occupation where you could be right one third
at the time and make a good living doing it,
the other one being major League Baseball hitters. If you
bat three hundred in the major leagues, then you're gonna
you're gonna make a lot of money. If you could
bat three hundred as a meteorologist, I think you're probably
doing fairly good. But anyway, despite all the information they

(04:52):
have so anyway, the forecast intron out that way at all.
We got a few sprinkles, maybe the little clap of
thunder north of the Woodlands, and that was it never
came down, never never impacted. The rest of the Houston
area got maybe a shower or two, but this was
nothing like what they were talking about on the weather yesterday.
And I thought, Okay, I'm gonna I'm just gonna ask

(05:13):
the question. I'm gonna put it out there and see
what kind of response we get on our morning show
on KTRH. What do you think about weather forecasting here
in Houston. Do you think it's better than it used
to be or worse than it used to be? My
opinion is it's worse than it used to be. And
I only have an eight year timeframe to judge it.

(05:36):
For those of you who are native Houstonians and have
been here your entire life, you know, over the last
twenty or thirty years, been watching weather forecast. What do
you think are they Are they better at it or
are they worse at it? Here's what some of you
had to say.

Speaker 6 (05:50):
John from Spring, Texas. Yes, our weather has gotten a
lot worse. Our weather forecasting has gotten a lot worse
compared to when I was growing up. At least we
could count on the next one to three days forecast.
Compared to the daddy, I think they're overwhelmed with too
much information.

Speaker 7 (06:08):
Yes, David and oak Bridge, I don't used to differ
about the weather forecasters, especially in terms of winter weather,
which is most difficult to forecast. They have really nailed it,
especially in terms of the snowfall that fill in the
Houston area in the past winter.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
Oh right, we got one fan so far in one
non fan.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
The weather forecast these days is awful.

Speaker 8 (06:31):
As a fisherman, we rely on the wind and it
can't seem to get a decent weatherman provide a wind
forecast for loving money.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Hey, Jimmy, according to the weather Andy from College Station,
you know, sometimes it's a hit, sometimes it's a miss.
Sometimes you're the windshields sometimes you're the bugs.

Speaker 9 (06:54):
It's definitely gotten worse. This is the only job where
you can be this wrong a big chunk of the time.
If doctors messed up this much, we wouldn't go to them.
It's easy to say, yes, it's going to be hot
and dry, hot and dry, hot and dry all over
the summertime. But when it comes to a torrential rainstorm
or big important weather, it's a huge just we're guessing.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
It's a big estimate, all right.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
So we got of the responses there. We had one
who thought the forecasting was better than everybody else thought
the forecasting was worse. Here's my last theory. For the
sake of argument. Let's say that we the majority of us,
agreed that the forecasting is worse than there used to be.
The question would be why do you think that is,
especially with all the equipment available to these meteorologists. And

(07:43):
here's something I've noticed, and we'll think on this for
a little bit, no need to respond to it, but
I have noticed that there is a difference in the
type of people being hired for local television. It used
to be Houston, Texas was kind of a be all
end all. It's a major market. You know, we've got

(08:05):
We've got well over six and a half million people
who live here. This is a major market. This is
this is This is not the kind of place you
start out of college school, you know, broadcasting school or
meteorology school or whatever it is you go to. H
is your first job. But it seems like the people
who are being employed at the television stations are younger

(08:27):
and younger, and less and less experienced. Do you think
that might have something to do with it? All right,
quick little break, We're back with more in a moment.
Jimmy Barrett show here a name of nine fifty KTRC.

(08:53):
All right, I have a bunch of Trump stuff to
do here in our second segment today, and some of
it is just awesome, Well, most of it is just awesome,
as you might imagine. I want to start with this,
the cabinet meetings. President Trump has had at least four
cabinet meetings so far, maybe more, at least four that
I can remember. I don't think Joe Biden had four

(09:15):
cabinet meetings in four years. Joe Biden never allowed a
camera inside of his cabinet meetings, and Trump regularly does.
He has nothing to hide and they were there yesterday
having a meeting. The media was there, Elon Musk was there.
I think that correct me if you think I'm wrong here,

(09:36):
But I think that Elon Musk was basically saying goodbye
yesterday to the cabinet. I heard that Tesla is looking
for a new CEO to run the company the board
of directors, and it's probably because Elon has been away
for too long and they sense there's a problem. So
I think that's Elon's Q two. Okay, got to get

(09:59):
back to you know, making teslas and selling cars and uh,
you know, space exploration and that kind of stuff. So
that may have something to do with it. I think
if he hasn't officially stepped down, he will be stepping
down in a matter of days. But he was there,
you know, basically, I think, you know, kind of saying
goodbye to the cabinet yesterday. And of course they were

(10:19):
all they loved him. The President loves him, clearly. Uh, Elon,
showing his sense of humor, he showed up at the
cabinet meeting wearing two hats or maybe it was three. Anyway,
he had a bunch of different hats on which President
Trump felt compelled to comment on.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
And I wear a lot of hats. So you know,
people voted for secure boys, safe cities.

Speaker 6 (11:02):
And sensible spending.

Speaker 10 (11:03):
And that's what I've got.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
A tremendous COMEU has been accomplished in the first hundred days,
as everyone who says it's more than it has been
accomlished in any.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Administration before ever period.

Speaker 5 (11:15):
So this is this pretends very well for having for
the rest of the administration, I guess could be the
greatest administrations in the found your communs.

Speaker 11 (11:25):
The vast majority of people in this country really respect
and appreciate you, and this whole room can say that
very strong, really been a tremendous help.

Speaker 12 (11:35):
You opened up a lot of bys as to what
can be done, and we just want to thank you
very much.

Speaker 13 (11:40):
And you know you're invited to stay as long as
you want. At some point, if he wants to get
back home to his cars, he's done an incredible job.
One hundred and fifty billion, let's take it, yeah, even.

Speaker 12 (12:05):
More, and a lot of you know, a lot of
stuff is being worked on. I never could be doubled
and even trip if a lot of things are being
worked on, we don't count cash because it's not quite there, but.

Speaker 14 (12:15):
You've done a fantastic job.

Speaker 13 (12:17):
But we appreciate it very last year, you.

Speaker 5 (12:19):
Know, there is still some hounitive work with your incredible code.
Say thanks you having one brilliance you know.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
All right, Micheal, respect all the way around. Are you
Are you disappointed by the one hundred and sixty billion
saved by dose so far? Were you thinking it would
have been more by now? Yeah, because let's face it,
I mean, they get talked up like that, but what
would we I couldn't be surprised if we can find
a trillion dollars. Well, obviously, one hundred and sixty billion

(12:48):
is a long way from a trillion. Even if they
double that amount to three hundred and twenty or rounded
up even more to four hundred billion, that's still not
even half a trillion. So so the estimate may been overestimated.
But we got to remember here we're on one two
at this point, day one oh two of this administration.

(13:09):
Think of all the things that have been accomplished during
the course of this administration, and yet nobody wants to
give Trump any credit for any of this stuff. Oh
he did, he got another thing accomplished yesterday. They finally
signed that rare Earth deal. So I don't know how
you feel about that. But in case you missed it,

(13:30):
President Trump talking about the rare earth deal that they
made with Ukraine and also some work on the other
end from a State Department spokesperson and former television personality
Tammy Bruce.

Speaker 11 (13:43):
Rare earth is called rare for a reason, and they
have a lot, and we made a deal where our
money is secure, where we can start digging and doing
what we have to do.

Speaker 12 (13:57):
It's also good for them because you'll have an American
presence at the site, Chris and the American presidence will
I thank you. A lot of bad actors out of
the country. You're certainly out of the area where we're
doing the digging. So we made a deal, and I
assume they're going to honor the deal. When I came here,
heysa how much money.

Speaker 13 (14:15):
Have we given to Ukraine?

Speaker 12 (14:18):
The real number is about three hundred and fifty billion dollars.

Speaker 14 (14:22):
It was done by Biden, and.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
This is Biden's war. This is in trumpet.

Speaker 11 (14:26):
So I'm trying to get out.

Speaker 15 (14:27):
And what's important for people to realize is that you
heard the President allude to it a little bit right there.
But this is really about an investment in Ukraine. It
is about our presence being in Ukraine, which then adds,
of course a national security element for that country, and
of course we all are concerned about that. This is
about a long term, durable, dynamic regarding an economic partnership

(14:52):
with that nation, which is necessary in general, but also
when America is your friend and America is your partner,
your nation is going to be better off, your citizens.

Speaker 4 (15:02):
Are going to be better off.

Speaker 15 (15:04):
And there is a security component just in our presence.
So this is a very exciting time. A lot of
people have wanted this to happen. It benefits both countries immensely.

Speaker 9 (15:14):
It is, of.

Speaker 15 (15:15):
Course, and it's not a surprise because it's President Donald Trump.
It is the perfect deal.

Speaker 4 (15:21):
And in the midst of.

Speaker 15 (15:22):
Of course their work, President Trump's work, a Secretary of
State Mark or Ruby's work for a ceasefire and to
end the carnage that has been inflicted upon that country
in the midst of this conflict with Russia.

Speaker 4 (15:34):
So it's a very exciting day.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
Okay, everybody's excited. We got a rare earth deal with Ukraine,
which means we can dig up all their precious metals
instead of digging up our own precious metals, which of
course gets the environment mentalist to all a lot of
whack and crazy. And yes, I think the best thing
that happens for Ukraine there is that we have a
presence there, So Russia is I would I think if

(15:58):
fooding is bard. No, I don't think everybody's claimed that
he's not smart. He's not going to be hitting any
area where there's a United States presence because he realizes
that that's an act of war and that escalates things
and that would not be a good thing for anybody,
especially him. So there you go. Also, yesterday the President

(16:18):
gave a break to car makers. See people take everything
he says and then they etch it in stone as
if somehow these tariffs are not a fluid thing. They're
a fluid thing. They are a fluid thing. And there
are deals that are going to be written. I wish
they were being written more quickly so that people could see,
you know, what the ultimate end game is going to
be from all this, and how it's going to be

(16:39):
better than they think it is. But President Trump yesterday
gave a break to automakers on auto parts and producing
tariffs on autoparts for it, autoparts that they have to
use to make their vehicles. So let's take a listen
to what that deal is all about and get reaction
to it from the CEO the Ford Motor Company.

Speaker 16 (17:01):
We just wanted to help them during this little transition,
short term and during this little if they can't get parts.
You know, it has to do with a very small percentage.
If they can't get parts, we didn't want to pedalize them.
And during they have a one year period and then
they have an extra year.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
But it's for a very very small part of the car.

Speaker 16 (17:23):
But basically they're paying twenty five percent.

Speaker 10 (17:25):
First of all, you know, fifty percent of all vehicles
sold in the United States are imported.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
They come to our ports.

Speaker 10 (17:34):
Imagine that fifty percent just thirty years ago was ninety
percent made here.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
So this is a big deal.

Speaker 10 (17:42):
Literally, that eight million vehicles that are imported would be
twenty assembling plants like Kentucky year, we're talking a million jobs.
So moderating the parts that ten to fifteen percent, as
a president said, to make the vehicles more afford is reasonable.
But we have to look at whether these policies really

(18:04):
change our competitor's commitment to America. If our competitors made
the same commitments as Ford did, that be four million
vehicles more built in the US ten assembly plans. So
we got to see what the competitors do.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
Well. I think that's the goal. I think the President
understands that right. He wants to bring more manufacturing back
to the United States than that includes bringing more automotive
manufacturing back to the United States. And I think that's
the path we're on. All right, what more for you here?
Because this is one of my favorite part of what
the President was doing yesterday. He gave an interview to

(18:41):
ABC News. I'm not sure why, I guess because he
will give an interview to just about any part of
the mainstream media, even though he knows that it's not
going to be flattering and they're going to try to
ask it got you questions and fake news questions. But
the President was more than happy during the course of
the interview to fight back. Let's take a listen.

Speaker 14 (19:02):
They're giving you the big break of a lifetime.

Speaker 12 (19:04):
You know you're doing the interview.

Speaker 14 (19:06):
I picked you because frankly I.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
Never heard of you.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
But that's okay.

Speaker 14 (19:09):
Do you think Vladimir Putin wants peace. I think he does. Yes,
do you trust I think? Do you trust him? I
don't trust you. I don't trust I don't trust a
lot of people. I don't trust you. Look at you.
You come in all shooting for bear, You're so happy
to do the interview, Ana, how and you start hitting
me with fake questions. We had a president that was
grossly incompetent.

Speaker 11 (19:27):
You knew it.

Speaker 14 (19:28):
I knew it, and everybody knew it, but you guys
didn't want to write it because you're fake news. All right?

Speaker 3 (19:33):
Thank him?

Speaker 14 (19:33):
By the way, ABC is one of the worst. I
have to be honest.

Speaker 17 (19:36):
Okay, I think like after the Biden cover up, it's
not Trump that's being tested.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
It's the media that has to be tested.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
He has nothing to prove they do.

Speaker 18 (19:48):
And I think that's how he structures these interviews. He
has nothing left to say to them. They have to
prove to him that he's unbiased.

Speaker 8 (19:56):
Well, I think that it does say something about President Trump.
He is literally willing to talk to anybody, and they
had an incredible push for their one hundred days. And
I know it's a media construct, but you know what,
use what you hand have used the tools at your disposal,
and so that's the one that they tried with this one.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
ABC News.

Speaker 8 (20:16):
Interesting choice. He didn't go with David Muir or Lindsey
who did the debate, if you'll remember that one. But
I do think I admire him for wanting to get
out there be willing to take the interview. It's interesting
to me that Terry Moran said yes, right, because you
know going in that this is a possibility, and I
think we got something out of it.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
But on the.

Speaker 8 (20:39):
Biden point in particular, ABC News was the chosen entity
for all sorts of news from the Biden administration.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah, I'm speaking the media is upset that you realize
that there was a cover up on their part on
Joe Biden. And the final segment coming up in well,
we have an interview coming up next. But in our
final segment today, I'll share some audio from Chuck Todd,
who's really incensed about the whole thing, even though he's

(21:09):
as guilty as the next guy. Back with more in
a moment, Jimmy Barrett Show Here on a nine fifty KPRC.
All right, I promised we would do this before the

(21:31):
end of the show today, So here we go. The
mainstream media is upset. They want you to believe that
they were misled by the Democrat Party, that they didn't
know that Joe Biden was so compromised. That it's the
Democrat Party's fault for deceiving the nation, including them on

(21:54):
Joe Biden's condition. That is one of the most laughable
things I've ever heard. We and others like us talked
about Biden from day one, from day one when he
was running for the office, but especially once he took office.
From the first week he was in office, you could

(22:17):
see that he was compromised and the problem got nothing
but worse. I mean, how many times did these networks
show footage, Well, they probably didn't show footage a lot
of them, but they saw footage of Biden in his
inability to react to things, or falling over things, or
getting lost on stage, or getting lost during a speech,

(22:39):
or just blanking out or nodding off. They saw this
stuff the way we did. They knew it wasn't normal,
and they didn't ask any questions about it. You know why,
they didn't need to. They knew the answers, and they
didn't want their audience to know, so they played it
off like everything was fine, that he was fine, and

(23:00):
they have the nerve to get upset when everybody points
to figure in they say, you knew, you didn't say anything.
You're part of the problem. And they're angry about that,
and they think it's just a bunch of right wing
nut jobs pointing the finger at them, or they're pretending
that's what it is. Great Gutfeld on his show last night.
First we hear from Chuck todd Over on NBC's Meet

(23:23):
the Press or Meet the Depressed, as I like to say,
who was very upset that you would think that the
mainstream media knew Joe Biden's condition and just wouldn't say
anything about it.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
This is not a media failure. This is a failure
of the Democratic Party. And I just sort of sort
of the virtue signaling that some people have done to
try to say that the media missed the story. They
didn't miss this story. David I. Ignatius wrote, I just
refuse to accept this, this stupid premise because it's a
right wing, manufactured, right wing premis in order to stain

(23:58):
the media.

Speaker 17 (24:00):
Sorry, Chuck, you don't. You guys don't need help staining yourselves.
You can't stain something that's covered. I wonder who he
thinks the people at fault are.

Speaker 4 (24:12):
The people at fault are Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden,
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, every elected member of Congress, the
Democratic Party let that disaster happen. That is not a
media failure. That is a Democratic Party failure. And only
right wing manufactured outrage who claims the media and the

(24:32):
Democratic Party work is one have fused it into this.

Speaker 17 (24:36):
I have a few names to add, CNN, MSNBCCBS, the
Town Crier, OH outlets ignoring Biden's revolving door of gaffs. Wisconsin,
forget from this weird rambling speech is being let off
stage all the while you told us there's nothing.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
To see here.

Speaker 17 (24:55):
Meanwhile, any parent can see this face means you got
to change a diaper. I learned that even those in
the media who didn't defend Biden's mental acuity surely didn't
cover it.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
And this refusal to acknowledge the truth is.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
A betrayal of it.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Meanwhile, what is.

Speaker 18 (25:13):
This right wing outrage you speak of? Hell, we were
the only ones pointing out when.

Speaker 17 (25:17):
Every American could see Joe Biden was a mess. If
you didn't see Biden had dementia, you have dementia.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
Yeah, that pretty much covers it, you don't. It bothers
me greatly that they're capable of getting away with this.
And I'm not talking about the media. I'm talking about
I'm talking about the Democrat Party. I'm talking about the government.
How the federal government basically had an incompetent, senile old

(25:48):
man in the White House serving as president and not
running the government for four years. And there's no penalty
for that. There's no penalty for lying to us about
his condition. There's no penalty for the fact that the
president of the United States was not acting as the

(26:08):
president of the United States. There's no penalty for a
cover up, which it was a cover up of epic proportions.
And and I'm trying to figure out it's frustrating as hell,
but I'm trying to figure out why there's no Q
and outcry about that. Why Why is it that we
are not more upset, or that your average American isn't

(26:31):
more upset. Why is it that we think that, oh,
oh well, okay, well he's not president anymore. Why is
that okay? Why why is it all right to do that? See,
as long as you can keep getting away with doing
things like that, then there will be further attempts to

(26:51):
do things like that. Until we make you know the
punishment fit the crime, the crimes will continue. That's all
I got for today. Listen, you all have a great day.
See you tomorrow morning, bright, early five am. I hope
over on news Radio seven forty ktr H. Hope to
see you back here at four on AM nine fifty
k pr C.