This last weekend...
I will never watch TV weather reports ever again. I had some major plans this weekend. I was supposed to be traveling all over the state. But then everyone got paranoid about the massive storm that was descending on Wisconsin, so all of my plans got cancelled.
So on Saturday, when it got sunny outside, I was mad.
I watched the weather reports. I saw it was going to snow. 22 inches of snow one station reported. The perfect storm, another station referred to the weather as.
Friday night, 3 inches of snow. HOLY CRAP, CALL THE ARMY! There’s snow on the ground! I don’t know what to do! Oh dear.
So, later on my sunny Saturday I went to the grocery store, to pick up some eggs. With the second wave of this storm of the century getting ready to hit around 6 p.m. (according to TV) people were whipped up in a shopping frenzy. Toaster waffles are particularly popular in a panic situation I noted. I got eggs, but it took a while. Apparently dairy foods are popular in a storm as well. And damn the aisle right of ways. Just go wherever you’d like to. That’s fine with me. I didn’t need toes.
9 p.m., no snow. Later, some flurries. This wasn't the murder death kill storm 2007 I was promised.
So Sunday I woke up. About four inches of snow on the ground. I was livid.
TV weather ruined my weekend. Sure they backpedaled, saying some atmospheric mumbo jumbo caused the weather to change ... blah blah blah. But they were wrong, really wrong, and everyone suffered.
Here’s the facts. It snows in Wisconsin. Anything under a foot is nothing. Two feet in one night, that’s a big deal. Two feet over a weekend ... not a big deal.
We don’t need some guy breaking in on our TV shows to tell us snow is falling out of the sky. Cats. When it rains cats then yes, break in to Law and Order, otherwise it’s just a waste of time.TV weather guys...you stink. I know predicting the future is hard, but maybe you should put a limit on embellishing it. That doesn’t help.
So on Saturday, when it got sunny outside, I was mad.
I watched the weather reports. I saw it was going to snow. 22 inches of snow one station reported. The perfect storm, another station referred to the weather as.
Friday night, 3 inches of snow. HOLY CRAP, CALL THE ARMY! There’s snow on the ground! I don’t know what to do! Oh dear.
So, later on my sunny Saturday I went to the grocery store, to pick up some eggs. With the second wave of this storm of the century getting ready to hit around 6 p.m. (according to TV) people were whipped up in a shopping frenzy. Toaster waffles are particularly popular in a panic situation I noted. I got eggs, but it took a while. Apparently dairy foods are popular in a storm as well. And damn the aisle right of ways. Just go wherever you’d like to. That’s fine with me. I didn’t need toes.
9 p.m., no snow. Later, some flurries. This wasn't the murder death kill storm 2007 I was promised.
So Sunday I woke up. About four inches of snow on the ground. I was livid.
TV weather ruined my weekend. Sure they backpedaled, saying some atmospheric mumbo jumbo caused the weather to change ... blah blah blah. But they were wrong, really wrong, and everyone suffered.
Here’s the facts. It snows in Wisconsin. Anything under a foot is nothing. Two feet in one night, that’s a big deal. Two feet over a weekend ... not a big deal.
We don’t need some guy breaking in on our TV shows to tell us snow is falling out of the sky. Cats. When it rains cats then yes, break in to Law and Order, otherwise it’s just a waste of time.TV weather guys...you stink. I know predicting the future is hard, but maybe you should put a limit on embellishing it. That doesn’t help.
posted by Eric LaRose at
3:50 PM
1 Comments:
Yeah, me and my friends used to mock the weather bunnies mercilessly in Journalism school. In what other profession can you sit around and make random predictions that there's "a 65 percent chance that this or that" will happen??? And of course, you DO know that 90 percent of statistics are made up on the spot, right? :) :)
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