I'll add that I like the fact that you provided data (evidence), whereas the original writer was merely expressing an ignorant opinion (and I mean "ignorant" in the primary sense -- lacking knowledge, lacking understanding). His letter also revealed his ignorance by believing that forecasts simply come from a satellite. The good thing is that the paper printed your rebuttal.
It's really easy to poke fun at people, but I prefer to let meteorologists, weather enthusiasts, professors, farmers, seamstresses, lawyers, etc. (fill in your own occupation) make fun of themselves, etc. (Well, okay, so
lawyers are fair game.
) That's one of my pet peeves -- people making fun of occupations when they are ignorant of what such people do.
Well done on the letter!
Kevin...