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Do You Care About the Weather?

If you had to pay money to receive a weather forecast, how much would you pay?

For a 1-3 day weather forecast, I would pay (please choose the *HIGHEST* amount you could imagine paying, in US $):

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  1. 0.01
  2. 0.02
  3. 0.03
  4. 0.04
  5. 0.05
  6. 0.06
  7. 0.07
  8. 0.08
  9. 0.09
  10. 0.10
  11. 0.25
  12. 0.50
  13. 1.00
  14. more

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JesusMurphy offline Verified User (1 year, 5 months) Long Term User Shouts: 14 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 months ago (3 minutes after post)

I would look out the window..?

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most-wanted-websites offline Verified User (7 months, 2 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 41 #
Washington, DC, US | 3 months ago (5 minutes after post)

that’s not a *forecast*.

Here’s an example of a forecast:

“there will be a hurricane in New Orleans in 2 days”

People can make all sorts of plans according to weather forecasts.

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Narcissus offline Verified User (8 months, 2 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 24 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 months ago (8 minutes after post)

well i would pay and the put it on youtube myself that way no one has to pay and i would be a internet cleberty …kind of

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Narcissus offline Verified User (8 months, 2 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 24 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 months ago (9 minutes after post)

then

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Chameleon offline Verified User (3 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 12 #
An Unknown Location | 3 months ago (11 minutes after post)

I wouldn’t pay anything for a forecast. As far as natural disasters like hurricanes, I imagine regular free media will always inform people of impending doom.

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most-wanted-websites offline Verified User (7 months, 2 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 41 #
Washington, DC, US | 3 months ago (12 minutes after post)

The God wrote:
well i would pay and the put it on youtube myself that way no one has to pay and i would be a internet cleberty …kind of

Well, you would have to invest *TONS* of money before you could even *make* a reliable forecast — so in other words, you would be *out* of *ALOT* of money with that plan — but I guess if you voted, then we agree after all :)

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most-wanted-websites offline Verified User (7 months, 2 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 41 #
Washington, DC, US | 3 months ago (14 minutes after post)

Chameleon wrote:
I wouldn’t pay anything for a forecast. As far as natural disasters like hurricanes, I imagine regular free media will always inform people of impending doom.

There is no such thing as “free” — what you are referring to is “ad supported”. For the sake of this discussion, we should pretend that no “ad supported” media exists.

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Chameleon offline Verified User (3 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 12 #
An Unknown Location | 3 months ago (15 minutes after post)

Umm so you’re saying that there’s no tv or radio anymore?

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Narcissus offline Verified User (8 months, 2 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 24 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 months ago (15 minutes after post)

i not making the forecast ….im paying for it i would pay more the 0.01$ and ill just tell eveyone else what the weather is i going to report it myself

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Chameleon offline Verified User (3 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 12 #
An Unknown Location | 3 months ago (17 minutes after post)

Well if there’s no tv or radio or internet anymore, I still wouldn’t pay for it because I can pretty much gauge the weather by season where I live. And we don’t have to worry about natural disasters here. So, personally, I still wouldn’t pay for it. But that’s just me.

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most-wanted-websites offline Verified User (7 months, 2 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 41 #
Washington, DC, US | 3 months ago (17 minutes after post)

LOL — yes: good point. I’m guessing that whoever provides such data will try to preserve their “copyright” (kind of like other news are also copyrighted by news publishers).

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most-wanted-websites offline Verified User (7 months, 2 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 41 #
Washington, DC, US | 3 months ago (19 minutes after post)

Chameleon wrote:
Well if there’s no tv or radio or internet anymore, I still wouldn’t pay for it because I can pretty much gauge the weather by season where I live. And we don’t have to worry about natural disasters here. So, personally, I still wouldn’t pay for it. But that’s just me.

wow, nice place to live — is it sunny & warm? and do you have a spare room, too? one with a view? a pool would also be nice….

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Chameleon offline Verified User (3 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 12 #
An Unknown Location | 3 months ago (20 minutes after post)

lol it is sunny and warm right now. It follows all the seasons just like it should. Beautiful place to live :)

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most-wanted-websites offline Verified User (7 months, 2 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 41 #
Washington, DC, US | 3 months ago (22 minutes after post)

BTW: In the United States, TV, radio and internet *are* — but don’t *have to* be — ad supported. Indeed, in many parts of the world, they are not free.

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most-wanted-websites offline Verified User (7 months, 2 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 41 #
Washington, DC, US | 3 months ago (23 minutes after post)

I mean: in many parts: people have to pay a fee for receiving TV / radio / Internet

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most-wanted-websites offline Verified User (7 months, 2 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 41 #
Washington, DC, US | 3 months ago (3 hours, 24 minutes after post)

BTW — just as a “side-note”: NBC just paid $3.5 billion for http://weather.com

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2greeneyes offline Verified User (8 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 60 #
Midvale, UT, US | 3 months ago (4 hours, 24 minutes after post)

The weather is important here. I call my husband the weather man. We have gages in and out of the house. The weather can get hung up in these mountains and dump at one resort (ski) and nothing at another 10 miles away, then the wind picks up and blows it all to the third resort. The weather gets severe here. The weathermen are hardly ever right about it. We do better, knowing this country and pick up little things, like watching the animals, just like the indians.

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Washington, DC, US | 3 months ago (4 hours, 34 minutes after post)

yea, when I was in grad school one of my housemates who was from Montana said it could be like 60° warm one hour and then an hour or 2 later it could be well below freezing — so I do “get it” that there are many areas where predicting the weather can be very difficult. If I am right, there is also increasing interest in using “futures markets” to predict the weather — kind of like buying an insurance policy against “bad weather”.

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Dots offline Verified User (6 months, 2 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
An Unknown Location | 3 months ago (7 hours, 49 minutes after post)

Although knowing the forecast can be mad important depending on where you live (hurricane central for me), without it, I would just have to change my lifestyle a little. The minute July rolled around, I’d just board up the house, and then go on living. If a hurricane hits, then it hits, if not, I just lived 4 months in a dark house. Other than that, I wouldn’t need it. Weather is pretty predictable here.

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2greeneyes offline Verified User (8 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 60 #
Midvale, UT, US | 3 months ago (8 hours, 56 minutes after post)

Exactly BD
You can tell when the horses get rowdy, or if the deer are bedding down. Of course some common sense, both my sons collarbones! LOL. Just 3 weeks ago it was 29 degrees in the morning! Its blizzard central here. Many folks set out to hike or whatever and get caught in them. We had a hunter who found a man that had been missing since the eighties. He tried to take cover under a log and froze. I have even seen a hail storm at the 4 of July clear a parade it was so fierce. I can say I have seen snow up here every month of the year. In August we get rain so bad during the Arts Fest that it can work itself into ridge top winds of incredible fury turn to freeing rain, and hail and snow. Its crazy at 11,000 feet what the weather will do.

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Xeno Dragon offline Verified User (1 year, 5 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
Phoenix, AZ, US | 2 months, 3 weeks ago (5 days, 13 hours after post)

I would obviously pay as little as possible, but after having lived in Florida through so many hurricanes that I’ve lost track, living in Phoenix Arizona in the summer, and living in New Hampshire during an ice storm, I’ve come to realize that no matter where you are, Mother Nature CAN and WILL kick your a** bloody if you don’t prepare yourself.

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