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    Excuse generator

    Bad weather excuses, written by the weather

    A free generator that writes a funny excuse from today’s real weather where you are, ready to copy into a text. Pick what the excuse is for and how rude it gets, and the forecast does the rest.

    Write my excuse

    What it’s for
    How rude

    Where you are

    Pick where you are and today’s forecast writes the excuse.

    Today’s best excuse

    • New York

      Now 54°F, clear sky

      Skipping plans

      Can we raincheck? With clear skies out there, I’ve already made plans with my blanket.

    • Chicago

      Now 57°F, broken clouds

      Not going for a run

      No run today. The weather has excused me and I’ve accepted.

    • London

      Now 9°C, mist

      Late to work

      Running late. It’s so foggy here that I’ve lost the end of my own street.

    • Manchester

      Now 8°C, overcast clouds

      Can’t come in

      I can’t come in today. The weather has made its decision and I respect it.

    Live data from OpenWeatherMap, refreshed about every half hour. Board lines use the clean Wuss setting; severe weather is shown without a joke.

    How it works

    You pick what the excuse is for and how rude it can be, then where you are. The generator reads today’s forecast for that place (the condition, the temperature in your units, the wind, and any rain or snow total) and writes the excuse around it, in the first person, ready to send as your own message. On severe weather days it writes nothing and points to the official forecast instead, because those days are no joke.

    Questions

    What’s a good bad weather excuse for work?

    In our opinion, a good one is short, obviously a joke, and matches the sky everyone else can see. “Running late, my umbrella has handed in its notice” lands on a wet morning and falls flat on a sunny one. The generator above starts from today’s forecast where you are for that reason.

    Is weather a valid excuse to miss work?

    That is between you and whoever you work for, and we are a weather app, not an HR department. Our view: these excuses are jokes, and they read best sent to people who will laugh. When the weather is genuinely dangerous, the generator stops joking and points to the official forecast.

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