There is a tiny chance it will snow later in the week. Yet, when I ran through the forecasts for the four local TV stations, none of them had their WINTER STORM WARNING!! graphics up. Rebecca Miller at Channel 5 actually went out of her way to point out that the chance of bad weather was minimal.
I am deeply confused. Are the TV stations going to give up scaring us to death with the weather forecast? If so, does this mean they will actually start reporting news instead of crime, fires, and lost puppies?
Funny...that weather "lead-in" with the ten o'clock news always drives me crazy as well. It does work - my wife will always tell me "wait, don't change it! it's going to snow tomorrow" or, "do i have an icescraper in my car?"
Posted by: Chris | January 14, 2008 at 08:18 AM
After 17 years here, I'm still amazed that a dusting of snow can cause such "flurries" of concern! Excitement, yes, but you'd think we were preparing for the blizzard of the century!
Posted by: Roger | January 16, 2008 at 03:13 PM