Weather reporters........

You may die.  It was 75 degrees F here today.

My son cracks up every time one particular, local weather person comes on the news.  Apparently she has referenced "winds from the North South North" before (or somesuch), along with mixing up the order of the days of the week.  It's just entertainment, not news.  I enjoy the references to extreme rain events that might include precipitation of 1/8 inch.  Now there's some serious rain. 

Look man, I'm trying get my family through the life threatening temperatures of Winter Storm Ion.....this is NOT entertainment, this is life and death!!  I don't know if you've heard..... over 200,000,000 are affected!!

Go ahead and make light of it.......I'm in a friggin' Polar Vortex here dammit!!!

You need to stay inside and burn whatever you need to in order to survive.  Dennis Quaid is on his way with a rescue team.

HAHAHA!!! 

I'm reminded of the old George Carlin parody. "Tonight's forecast - dark. Continuing dark, followed by increasing lightness towards the morning."

Stating the obvious is a heck of a way to make a living. Oh, it's cold out, too.

This was from last winter, but it's still funny.

Los Angeles Overreacts to Cold Temperatures

55 is warm for a long run.

I remember when we moved from DC to Michigan, and we experienced -10 to -15 that first winter. We thought we had made a serious mistake moving. A year later we had all the right gear and spent a lot of those cold nights with our new neighbors sitting outside around the fire pit. Adapt or perish!

Yesterday morning the temp was -10 and the wind chill was -43.  The kids found some old water guns after watching a youtube video and stood on the back deck and shot the water guns out over the yard, and watched the water turn to vapor and then freeze before it hit the ground as snow........it was actually pretty cool.

Just remember that weathermen are trying to predict the future!

I'm OK with that.......but I'm not OK with reporting the weather like it's the end of the world.   Naming winter storms is another ridiculous proposition.  Mostly, I hate all forms of media reporting. 

HEAT DOME is my personal favorite term. I like to ride my bike in those.

Let's not even have the discussion of Heat Dome and Polar Vortex coming together.......basically no survivors in that scenario....ask JIm Cantore.

Indeed....the reporters did a good job of predicting the catastrophic, crippling, and deadly termperatures of the polar vortex that affected over 200,000,000 people and nearly brought the airline industry to it's knees while stranding thousands of people with no hope of being reunited with loved ones for days, and perhaps weeks.  Meanwhile, another storm is taking shape over the Pacific and threatens cattle ranchers with the prospects of losing billions as cattle from Oregon to Montana graze in the path of yet another deadly storm.

Not only that, the running path near my house is all slippery!

"We have reports of thousands at emergency rooms across the co0untry with broken bones and other life threatening injuries........like sprains and stuff."