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February 04, 2007
Weather Channel mambo
We reach this point every year, when the Weather Channel's website begins systematic mercy-lying. Go to the ten-day forecast for zip code 13332: it will always tell you that things are about to get better. In the real depths of winter (viz: right now), things will get better ten days from now. By the beginning of March, things will get better in 5-6 days. Later in March, things will get better in 4 days.
Do things in fact get better? Hell, no. We soldier all the way through March freezing, buried under untold inches of snow (though admittedly, we haven't had a single big storm this year, just 1-3 inches per day). But the Weather Channel, with its cheerful lies, allows us to think that, well, this won't go on forever. When in fact it will.
[Just a happy little post to brighten up your day. . . . Clearly, I'm now on aspirin rather than Vicodin. . . .]
Posted by senioritis at February 4, 2007 11:29 AM
Comments
hmmmm...what I always like about the weather channel and other sites like it is the way they exaggerate the severity of the weather. I go to them for an apocolyptic forecast. I love the drama of it all. Even when it's as cold as it is here, I go check the weather channel to see how bad we've got it when I KNOW DAMN WELL how bad we've got it. brrrrr.
Posted by: aerobil at February 4, 2007 06:30 PM