Here is something odd.  A Birmingham Alabama newspaper posted an article yesterday, but the link now goes nowhere.  Above is a screenshot from the google cache.

A short time after it was posted, the article was pulled and has not reappeared, either because it tipped us off to the climatologist's amazing psychic abilities, or because it states the obvious.  I am guessing the latter.

Want to be a weatherman? Flip a coin.

Calling heads or tails will give you as good a shot as a meteorologist at predicting whether this summer will be a wet one or a dry one, Alabama's state climatologist said Thursday.

Forecasts indicate it's equally likely that rainfall will exceed normal levels or fall below, said climatologist John Christy.

Wow; there's a brain buster for you.  Next year's rain might be more or less than normal.  Got any more pearls of wisdom there, John?  Do you have to go to school very long to be a climatologist?

It reminds me of the media raising the alarm on things that are ... well ... ordinary.  I guess bad news sells more newspapers than good.  How about running a story "Nearly half of all children now functioning below average."  Or better, "Bad times ahead for some, better for others." 

A few more predictions like this and you might be right up there with Nostradamus.