How far in advance should I check the weather forecast?
If you’re a control freak, there’s nothing more frustrating than those little bits of uncertainty that worm their way into your best-laid plans. After all, you’re not organizing all these endless events for your health — you have dinner parties to sweat through, vacations time to maximize and weddings to faintly recall through a Xanax haze. Like it or not, life swims with uncertainty — and few factors epitomize this as much as the weather. If you’re planning an outdoor event, going for a bike ride or even just looking to tackle a little yard work, it’s a roll of the dice as to whether you’ll enjoy clear and sunny skies or endure torrential rain. Of course, today’s heavy planners have a very useful tool at their disposal: the weather forecast. All you have to do is tune to the right channel or visit any number of weather and news Web sites and you’re all set. In this day and age, you’re never more than a few keystrokes away from a local three- or even 10-day forecast. Yet the unflin
