My dad was pretty cool part 1

There is a snowstorm coming in tonight according to all major weather services, and it looks like it's gonna be a big one. I don't normally really care about winter weather because my job is very accepting of working from home, but this time I am a little more conscious of it because a girl I am sweet on might be able to hang out, but I would have to drive in the snow to give her a ride (drats!). Prescott has a history of really overplaying weather (or underplaying / no-playing ???) seemingly at random, so I wanted to go check the NWS radar to be sure. I look at this thing and have little to no idea what is going on. Like, there is a large blob over LA, and there is a REALLY large but presumably not very bad blob (due to the colors?) over the area between Havasu and Prescott. I really have no idea what I am looking at. But my dad would have!

My dad used to run Motman's Hideaway (You can find it cached here) and he would regularly post forecasts based on what he saw from the doppler images, and, from my history knowing him, they regularly came true. That, to me, is pretty cool. He had no background in weather-anything but he was able to determine all of this information about what was going to happen. During my lifetime, my dad was always able to tell when it was actually gonna be a really bad storm despite what the weatherman said, and I think that is pretty cool. There is a huge list of random shit my dad could do seemingly from nowhere, and I could write probably 200 blog posts about them.

I really am lucky to have known such a cool dude.