DOES THE UNIVERSITY FORECASTING TEAM HAVE ITS OWN FRAT?

Despite the fact that most "meteorologists" can't accurately predict the local weather for the coming weekend, this clown has released his forecast for the entire 2006 Atlantic Hurricane Season.

By the way, remember when meteorologists were still "Weathermen"? For those of you too young to know what I'm talking about, I'm thinking of the bygone era when journalists were still "newswriters," exotic dancers still "strippers," and pedophiles still just "priests." And even though weathermen's forecasts were just as inaccurate as those of meteorologists, they tended to be fat, wear bad toupees & make awful jokes, rather than talk pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo and point to radar pictures that look the same every day.

Anyhow, William Gray -- described in the linked article as "a noted U.S. storm forecaster" -- and his "Colorado State University forecasting team" predicted Wednesday that the 2006 "Atlantic hurricane season will produce nine hurricanes." Just to prove . . . uhhh, something, Gray & the "University forecasting team" made the same nine storm prediction earlier this year, on April 4.

So, in case your asking yourself, "Gee, what is it, exactly, that makes someone 'a noted U.S. storm forecaster,'" I direct you to the next-to-last paragraph: "Gray's prediction and those of other forecasters were wildly off the mark last year."

I'm not sure America's ready for a fat guy making bad jokes about driving his Chevy to the Levee during the next Cat 4, but that's about where this guy seems to belong.