No, but the value of our measurement of where the ocean meets the land has doubled. I don’t get why somebody would be hacked by a television person saying that.
The problem is saying the temperature doubled has no real meaning. It does not aid in your understanding of the weather and how hot it is. It is useless babble from the weather dude.
Yeah, but 90 percent of what the weather dude says is useless babble.
I’m not hacked by it myself. But when I hear a statement like that I recognize it as a somewhat nonsense statement.
It represents the doubling of a number but just about nothing else. It doesn’t mean that there is twice as much heat energy in the air. There’s really not twice as much anything other than the degrees of measurement.
My dog and I are offended by your statement. We think our ages are just as important as the transition states of a common compound.
Well, to be fair, you are in Texas.
Anyway, what network?
-Joe
My pet peeve is with the weather reporting on an otherwise decent news broadcast when I’m getting dressed in the morning (I don’t even watch that channel otherwise).
It’s June, right. We’ve had, on average, below-normal temperatures. The weathergal will say (something like), “We’re running about 4-5 degrees below normal, sorry about that. We’ll get you some good enough weather soon though.”
Then, as soon as temps go ONE degree over the average norms, she’ll be all, “Man, when are we going to get some relief from these temperatures!”
Looks like most of you should get down on your knees and Thank Og that you do not heave to endure that paragon of simpering idiocy also known as Roberta Gonzales on channel 5.
She’s sorta like a root canal, but without the novacaine.
I’m in an area where we are have freezing rain as a regular winter risk. When these storms happen they are devastating. The risks associated with freezing rain are different from those associated with snow, sleet, or hail.
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[li]The way that precipitation accumulates on above ground structures is dramatically different. Snow, sleet and hail can all cause structural damage, but if you want widespread destruction and deforestation nothing beats a freezing rain storm. Because of the nature of snow (for these purposes hail can be considered just large snowflakes) accumulates, there’s a limit to how much of a load that can be deposited upon power lines, trees, fences, or road signage. With freezing rain, since the rain lands, freezes solid almost instantly and then becomes a solid attachment to the structure it landed upon, there’s no upper limit after which more will just fall off to one side. Ice storms, as they’re sometimes called, can knock down 90-95% of power lines in whole counties. The North Country Ice storm in 1997 (I think) devastated both NY state north of the Thruway and much of the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. I went through the Watertown area that summer, and areas that had been succession growth forest looked like some giant had used a weedwacker to knock down acres of the trees. [/li][li]Sorry, Opal[/li]
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On a related note, the generic anchor folks always put on their frowny faces when rain is forecast. Aside from the fact that I just like rain, we NEED rain! The fields and forests and orchards need rain. My piddly little garden needs rain. It’s a crucial part of the fucking water cycle, you morons! (And rain is not anything the weather forecaster has control over, so don’t give him a hard time when you have to stop your pre-show primping in your rearview mirror long enough to switch your wipers on.)
It’ll be mid-summer, 20 consecutive days of warmth and sun, the lawn is positively crunchy; a day of rain is forecast and the frowny faces say, “Aw, looks like Johnny Weatherman is bringing this good weather to a halt.” Idiots! “Good weather” sometimes means rain! Johnny Weatherman should come across that fake-wood desk and punch you in your surgically-altered nose!
I find the basement of my mother to be fairly moist and too cramped for comfort.
Are you suggesting that if the temperature goes from 0 degrees to 1 degrees it is infinitely hotter?
Well, that, and obviously if it goes from -4 to -8 the temperature has doubled.
OK, go ahead and pat yourself on the back…but only if your weatherman gives the forecast in Kelvin.
I think you missed the point. I never said the heat-index was useless. He called it the fucking “feel-like temperature”! That’s something a 5-year-old would say. It’s fucking retarded. If someone doesn’t understand what the heat-index is, they should probably just stay inside the house anyway.
My original post said “frozen rain”, not “freezing rain”, although I said later on that I may have misheard him. After all, a large portion of the people in this thread misread it. I’d have no problem if he said the latter, but “frozen rain” is either sleet, hail, or snow, depending on when it froze. (I think snow actually goes straight from vapor to solid, so it may be a stretch to call it frozen rain, but not much of one.)
And finally, we don’t have basements around here. I think the water table is too high. The only one I’ve ever seen (which was in an abandoned house) was flooded.
I believe I heard it on the radio station 96X, which gets their weather report from a CBS station.
I have nothing to add. I just came here to watch the trainwreck from some offenderatti being offended by the use of “retard”. Big disappointment. Are the weathermen fat or pimply?
We’ve got one of those 12-year-olds too: http://nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?S=5630630&nav=menu496_7_4 Not a bad guy, just very young looking.
Who’s the 10-year-old on the left in the group at the top of the site?
I call him Byron because he looks just like my sister’s boyfriend. Yeah he’s young looking too, he wears glasses on the air that make him look a little older than that pic. He’s a good newscaster.
Check out this guy though: http://nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?S=5408672&nav=menu496_7_4 He looks even weirder on TV.
This guy just graduated college in 2006 and looks about 17: http://nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?S=5408613&nav=menu496_7_4
But suppose today it is zero and tomorrow is twice as cold?