Yep, we're all gonna suffer and die in
the most horrific of ways! Again!
WJAR probably still has a “comment”
section on their weather site. A while back, after RJ Heim ranted
on and on about...SNOW for an upcoming forecast, all we ended up
getting was a dusting. The reason for this storm was that a warm
front had pushed through and at first, they flurry a lot
then...nothing occurs as it's as WARM FRONT.
This didn't deter Heim who had probably
been ordered by management at WJAR to hype the shit out of this event
for ratings. So I can't really blame him.
I once commented to WJAR about this and
my response was from no other than John Gihorse. He was sarcastic as
hell at first about my ranting about the “desperate sounding”
forecast. When I mentioned to him that this front had pushed itself
all the way to the Canadian border, promising us nothing but warmer
temps, he responds with; “Well, I can make no comment about various
personalities here at WJAR.” He dumped this into Heim's lap.
I gave it up as it wasn't really an
issue to push further. I did it out of peevishness about the new tact
weathermen were taking. Every weather “event” was a 9-11
now...and it's not done to warn us...is it?
Recently, WBZ was great for this. Over
the past two summers, every time their radar finds a bit of rotation
in a thunderstorm out in western Massachusetts, they pre-empt their
regular television so weathermen can scare you with probabilities on
tornado growth. It's usually good for thirty minutes of Fright Night
television...and the tornado doesn't form. Or if one does, it's an F1
and not those mile-wide F5 bastards that rip across Kansas.
Now we have a dreaded Polar Vortex.
Guess what? There's always a polar vortex. I come to find out there's
one over the North pole...always! It can deform and send an eddy
down our way and we get mighty cold...but not FOREVER and EVER!
When news cycles get so boring they
have to bring in weather doom stories...
Whatever happened to the head line:
“Man Bites Dog?”
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