it must be 20, obviously
Aw man, the freezing rain issue is settled. And here I thought I had found something to do with those pictures I took in 1990.
Oh fuck. She came immediately to mind when I saw this thread. The absolute worst talking head I’ve ever seen anywhere.
Yeesh, he looks younger than I do.
Hmm… Maybe I can get on air after all…
My pet peeve would be our local Fox affiliate’s weather forecast. No matter what the weather-snow, sleet, rain, tornado, hurricane, plague of frogs, the weatherman will inevitably go out onto the “WEATHER DECK” and tell us what it’s doing outside. And then we have to hear the stupid interchange between weatherman and anchorman:
“How’s the weather out there, Bill?”
“Well, Bob, it’s rainy out here.”
10 minutes later we get an update of the situation:
“How’s the weather out there? Oops, don’t blow away! Ha, ha, ha!”
“Well, Bob, it’s STILL raining out and just a few moments ago I got hit in the eye with a big raindrop. I don’t know if you can see it on camera, Bob” Camera zooms in for close-up But it was a big one! Stay inside tonight or if you do have to go out, carry an umbrella!"
It’s about 2 steps away from just putting up one of those weather ropes and going by that: “If the rope is wet, it’s raining, if the rope is moving, it’s windy…”
I didn’t know Frank Miller was a Doper.
ETA: Emphasis mine.
My minor rant here:
I’m with Asimovian here in that I believe our great Republic is turning into a nation of pansies.
I can distinctly remember growing up as a kid, and the New York city weatherman saying, “Yup, New Jersey is going to get 3” of snow tonight. Upstate, figure on 4 - 6". . ." and that was all. Then he moved onto the next few days’ forecast, and that was it.
Nowadays, you can’t get a stinkin’ prediction of 1/4" of rain without the goddamned warnings of “Flash Flood Alerts!” or “Storm Warnings” or anything. Granted, I accept that it’s all marketing trying to inculcate a ‘culture of panic’ (like my thoughts about Faux News), but come on people! Just because the temperature drops to “slightly chilly” on an autumn night does not mean my 5:PM news must be dominated by “Tips on preparing for the winter freeze! Film at eleven.” :rolleyes: Has 1" of snow really become ‘blizzard conditions’? And no, I am not making this up or exagerating. I have seen this on cable in New Jersey. Even in Montana (which surprised me). About the only place I saw normal weather reporting was in North Dakota, and that’s because people got happily excited about precipitation–farmer’s fields and such.
Please. Humankind has survived for millenia by . . . wait for it. . . dealing with the weather. Ain’t no reason to start panicking about it now.
Tripler
Them’s my two cents. Here’s your $0.98 change.
Still, I get amused by the idiots who actually grew up in new england and should realize what the weather is.
Us? After the first winter here from Va Beach [they announced there was going to be a big noreaster with tons of snow… so we bought about 4 gallons of water, batteries for the radio-tape deck, stocked up on drygoods we could cook on the wood stove, and there was half an inch overnight :rolleyes: what can i say, mrAru comes from good missouri stock and my mom is good iowa farm stock and we know how to get ready for a real storm.
Now we make sure that we have a couple gallons potable water on hand, about 5 for flushing, and bateries in the camp lantern at the beginning of winter and ignore the asshole on tv.
I like it when it’s 110 out but it feels like 108. Woo-hoo, love the AZ weather!
Seriously, how do you guys live with that weather? I’m in Michigan and I get cranky when it goes above 80 and downright mad if we hit 90. But 110?
Hey, all you guys razzing about the young looking weather people: After you reach a certain age, everybody looks like 12 year old whippersnappers.
Just curious, though, are they actual meteorologists, or just weather readers? If they’re meteorologists, my respect for them goes up a few notches. That’s one tough program, kind of a cross between engineering and physics.