Walking the Line Between a Bad Idea and a Scam

How much value would it add to your life if you could use your phone to access the precise weather conditions at your home at any given time?

Here’s a device that will set you back $329 that you can install on your roof that will send you, in real-time, the exact temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, UV index, lightning activity, wind velocity, and rain onset, intensity, duration and accumulation — at whatever place you choose to install it.

Make sense?  That’s up to you.  Personally, having these data points at my fingertips free of charge for my zip code is more than good enough for me.

Here’s where this migrates from a questionable idea to a scam:  It will help you predict your local weather.  No it won’t.

This is one of the casualties of a declining educational system: we’ve lost our capacity to understand basic science, and we’re sending $329 to people who fully realize just how ignorant we’ve become.