AIBU to think that if I heed a weather warning and stay at home, unpaid that the weather forecast should be accurate

[NotSuchASmugMarriedNow1]

I heeded the advice. It said it would snow heavily from 10am and to stay home. If I don't work I don't get paid. I stayed home. It hasn't snowed. I haven't been paid. I could easily have got to work and back.

Why the fuck do they do that?

The weather forecast covers a wide area. The weather is not going to be the same for that whole area. If they say heavy Snow, they mean in this particular area, some people will get heavy snow. Some might not. It won't necessarily snow heavily the whole time.

How do you know it's not snowing where you needed to go? Or on the way? What about the other people attending? Maybe it's snowing where they are.

Glad you took my comment well OP shows you’ve got a sense of humour!! 😊

Weather is a chaotic system, which means that it is incredibly sensitive to tiny changes in the initial conditions. Chaos theory says that you cannot reliably predict the behaviour of chaotic systems, and the further in time you are from your prediction, the less reliable it will be.

With the best will in the world, it was not possible to predict today's weather completely accurately yesterday.

NotACleverName

I know how you feel OP. Because the weather is not entirely predictable (even within a few hours), people divide into either tough and determined (and sometimes stupidly reckless) or safety-conscious (who may also be lazy, lead-swinging whiners the rest of the time). Sometimes someone has to give it their best shot, if where they are going is important (and you can tell the whinyarses because they are the ones who have a very very narrow definition of what's 'important'). Sometimes you're better off staying home.
(I had a lucrative day's worth of meetings cancelled yesterday, but at least they are going to reschedule.)

weather forecasting is not an exact science. Winds can change direction or lose or gain speed. Things change all the time so a degree of common sense, taking a chance or making alternative plans is necessary.

Can we have a minute silence for Michael Fish ... dead or alive????

Not sure how you do a minutes silence on a public forum

This is how rumours start, minutes silence, then everyone thinks Michael Fish die in Storm Emma.

The weather forecast is great - it does get it right at least half the time

2 words for you.

Michael. Fish.

I see that you had to cancel the meeting but was there no other work you could have done instead?