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The weather guy at the local radio station I listen to is Al Archer. Well, he’s not actually at the radio station. Based in Florida, he is a much sought after forecaster, contracted by hundreds of stations across the country to do a forecast tailored for their region. He uses a different alias on each station over which he is heard: Allan Archer and Storm Kennedy are two of them that come to mind, but the voice is unmistakably the same guy. Meanwhile, there’s the National Weather Service. Featuring a plethora of weather stats from forecasts to historical records, the NWS diagnostics are used by most newspapers across the nation, as well as the meteorologists of The Weather Channel. Their automated and regularly updated broadcasts can be heard 24 hours a day on specially allocated frequencies via most police scanners, shortwave radios or special weather radios that can be purchased at most large retailers. Now I’m sure that Al relies on NWS data for at least part of his programming – but I suppose that, like much scientific data, it is still quite open to interpretation. So this morning, Al was in rare form, and I could swear I could detect a sense of self-satisfaction as he rambled on about how the Paducah area was in for 3-6 inches of snow beginning at midnight, then yet another 3-6 throughout the next day. Always one to seek a second opinion, this morning I consulted the NWS broadcasts and the famous local-on-the-eights of The Weather Channel. According to them, we were in for 1-2 inches overnight, and maybe – maybe another inch in the morning, Now with snow, size matters, so the fact that Al was saying that we may get up to a foot in the next 24 hours and the NWS saying 3 inches at best, I decided to invest in the NWS figures. With the memories of a crippling ice storm still lingering in my mind, I’m tired of hash winters. But I digress. Who will be right? I don’t know. I don’t care. Here’s my point: Isn’t it great? Isn’t it awesome? That man cannot know the mind of God? We can plot and figure and prognosticate and project but in the end it is all beyond our control. We can look at the dark patches on radar screen and say, ‘here it comes’ but then nature can change her mind, and the best scientists can do is scramble to alter the “forecast.” And I take great comfort in knowing that I serve a God that great, a God who cannot be predicted that easily, who knows my needs before I ask, and a God who will rock me gently in his arms in the storms of life, both the literal and figurative ones. Like that title of that old television program – Father Knows Best!
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