We packed a deck of cards, Scrabble and books for our long holiday weekend in the Berkshires. The weather app was predicting a likelihood of rain and we wanted to be prepared.

The cards, Scrabble and books came home unused. With the exception of brief localized thunderstorms in late afternoon on two days, the weather was perfect.

Maybe I read the app wrong.

But when I checked with others, my suspicions were confirmed. The forecasts were, quite simply, wrong.

My brother in law gave up looking at weather forecasts years ago. Maybe I should do the same?