Here is a little screen shot of the weather widget on my Mac. The top weather summary is for Boston, and the bottom is for our town. Please look closely at the two summaries, especially for the Wednesday column. Notice any differences between the two forecasts?
Hello?
We live 45 miles from Boston. Admittedly we live in a different county, and in many ways our little semi-rural, one-stoplight town is worlds apart from the hustle and bustle of the cosmopolitain urban center. But dammit, I thought we were generally in the same climate.
Okay, since we are inland, and Boston is on the water, we typically see some differences in amount of precipitation and temperature. I’m used to that. However, it would appear that for tomorrow, as I’ll go into Boston for a meeting after I drop off Phoebe at daycare, I need to dress for snow and cold, and also for balmy sunshine. Maybe I should mail home a postcard from sunny Boston.
Update: Aha! It would appear that Boston is not going to have the Mediterranean temperatures that my widget told me. Well, not Boston, Massachusetts, at least. At some point in the last few days, perhaps sensing that I’m looking forward to Spring, my widget decided on its own that I would like to see what the weather is like in Boston, Georgia. I guess this looks more like what I should expect:
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That is really, really, weird.
rima-
Yes, too weird to be true, it would seem. Looking at Friday’s 50 degree difference made me dig a bit deeper. Though I was tempted to break out the summer clothes.
Well I have that same widget on my mac desktop too but you’re very clever to be able to display it on your blog like that!
Cheers
Huh – who knew there was another Boston?
Yesterday, midday, it was 66. By day’s end it was back down to the 30s. What the hell is going on?
I wonder how it feels to live in a town named after a real town. No, not THAT Boston.
Whoa.
Bizarro world.
I wonder if that other Boston has a mustache.
Oh, too funny. There’s a town in Iowa that has the same name as my city, and I once got that mixed up on my Dashboard widget too. Whoops.
My husband has decided he is in love with the weather widget.
LOL…I was wondering. But GA, of course, now it makes sense.
Maddy-
Screen shots are a handy thing. Using the apple key, shift and 4 let’s you select a region on the screen.
magpie-
Yeah, we had nearly 60 degree temps on Monday, too. It was toasty. The 70 degree forecast didn’t seem so far-fetched…
KC-
It looks to be a pretty dinky town, too. Population 1400-ish.
Madame M.-
It just might. Unless the Boston I know is the evil one.
mimi-
Who’d-a-thought that the default “Boston” would be a place I’d never heard of? What’s weird is I didn’t switch anything, and I’ve had that widget for at least a couple of years.
Emily-
It’s a dandy widget. I don’t use most of the others.
Julie-
Yes, I can accept that Georgia has a different climate than my town.