# Rare example of meteorological humor sighted

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 18, 2020, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-example-of-meteorological-humor-sighted/920951 "2020-09-18T22:05:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-example-of-meteorological-humor-sighted/920951/1 "2020-09-18T22:05:19Z")

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Tropical storm Beta formed in the Gulf of Mexico today, and Forecaster Beven’s official National Hurricane Center “400 PM CDT Fri Sep 18 2020” storm discussion, reviewing the effect of a “mid-level ridge building to the north of the cyclone”, went out of its way to insert the gem that “This ridge should act as a Beta blocker…”

[Tropical Storm BETA](https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2020/al22/al222020.discus.005.shtml)?

NOTE: I have requested this be moved to MPSIMS

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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-example-of-meteorological-humor-sighted/920951/2 "2020-09-18T22:18:48Z")

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I laughed. My wife laughed. And my medicine cabinet broke out into cheers.

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**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-example-of-meteorological-humor-sighted/920951/3 "2020-09-18T22:32:23Z")

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These days I’m happy to find humor in anything - thanks for posting.

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**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-example-of-meteorological-humor-sighted/920951/4 "2020-09-19T00:22:46Z")

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I sometimes read the “forecast discussion” link on NOAA for my area ([example](https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=MTR&issuedby=MTR&product=AFD&format=CI&version=1&glossary=1)), and very occasionally there will be a side-wise joke/reference similar to the OP regarding some weather phenomena.

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rare-example-of-meteorological-humor-sighted/920951/5 "2020-09-19T00:27:31Z")

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Some of the forecasters here in the Chicago NWS office do some similarly-amusing writing in their forecast discussions, which always makes me smile.