The advancement of weather prediction has kinda ruined this. I know in the morning exactly at what time it’s going to rain/snow. It may be off by an hour, but usually it’s dead on. I know at the beginning of the week what the temperatures and chances of rain are going to be and thus what the chance of snow is.
People bitch about weather prediction all the time, because it’s often wrong, but it’s crazy how much better it is than it used to be in the 80s and 90s. And as someone why rides a bike to work (15KMs one way) every day, I check the weather daily and will know if it’s raining when I didn’t expect it to rain. It’s super accurate compared to what it was even 10 years ago.
People are also morons about the weather. A couple of months ago there was a huge storm in the area, with a couple of people killed. In the morning there was a weather warning alerting people to the storm and advising not to go outside if it isn’t necessary. I worked from home that day, but my brother said he went to work on his bike. He was bitching about the weather warning, he biked trough it, it was a bit wet and windy, but no big deal. The weather alerts should be abolished, only causing unwarranted fear in his words. I was like dude WTF, people within KMs of where you live died because of the storm. Just because the chances of dying from such a storm are low, doesn’t mean people shouldn’t be warned or that you can just ignore the warning.
And don’t get me started on the whole climate versus weather thing. However it has gotten so bad the last couple of years, even people who deny climate change have to admit the weather is going crazy at times and is not normal anymore. Alas they have plenty of other BS arguments to throw at you when you mention it.