March is Spring Training

[John Sickels]

I look at March like I look at spring training for baseball:

If something good happens, that's good.

If nothing happens or if something bad happens like no storms at all, hey, it's just spring training.

I don't start to worry about a slow storm season until tax day. Just my personal rule.

If anyone cares, I have written an essay about the parallels between forecasting the weather and forecasting baseball prospects at my website www.minorleagueball.com. It's called "spaghetti baseball."

 

[Michael P. Morris]

Judging by the way the roads out here in OK are during chase season, it would be nice if we had a few storms to make sure that people were being responsible while chasing. I remember hearing stories (many on this board) about how bad it was on the first good day last year, March 27. It may be good to get everyone a little extra practice before the real mayhem (no pun intended) gets underway in April.