The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

I know I've said this before, but I think weatherpeople are the luckiest people in the world. They make, on average, over $90,000 a year to be wrong 99% of the time. My birthday was this past Thursday and the present I received from my girlfriend were two tickets to the Muse concert tomorrow night in Columbus. I had checked out the forecast all week and the weatherpeople were calling for a high between 36 and 38 degrees with a chance of flurries on the night of the concert. This was their prediction through yesterday. When I checked this morning, they drastically altered their forecasts to read as follows: Winter storm watch, with 4-8'' of snow from Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday afternoon, and sleet mixed in for good measure. There's already talk about the concert being canceled or postponed due to the altered forecast. What do these people get paid for anyway? Within 12-24 hours, they go from, "It'll be an average late winter day, without much to wor...