On drums...

Every time I open the news, RECORD COLD. I have no idea what they're talking about. I mean, yes, it's cold, but since when is 18 below new or record breaking in Wisconsin? I read the fine print and discover the record is for this particular day, not for cold weather in Wisconsin.

I didn't realize it, but Cliff (much more up on the latest than I am) told me that the last snow storm had a name; Hercules. When did we start naming snow storms? And then you read about how awful Hercules was… I mean, wow, it snowed, and it took a while longer for people to get to Starbucks. I feel so sorry for those people.

What is going on with our perception of weather? Is it the effect of 24/7 weather news and somebody's got to say something exciting? or have we become so self-absorbed that even the weather is the most incredible thing that ever happened because it is happening to us? Or do we need the weather to explain and promote our particular political biases, which seem to be the topic which no other topic can be brought up without?

Saturday, people mobbed the grocery stores, which now look like the locusts came through. Were they stocking up against one day of cold weather, or was that just food prep for the game? Beer and pizza and chips is a fact of life on Packer days in Wisconsin. I think the Packers lost; that means three days of glum cheese heads. Thank God the sun is shining today! And that's the weather.

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Gregory

Silly, isn’t it. Weather has now gone the way of network news, first from looking for, and then to creating hype for the purpose of making for themselves an ever more critical role in the world.

Used to be that cold weather was called winter, we understood that meant cold, and we generally prepared appropriately, without a lot of fuss.

Now The Weather Cannel takes it upon themselves to give a proper name to every material blast of cold air, and to temporarily suspend talk of global warming during ‘named’ winter storms, until the event dissolves into another non-event.

Coming next year to a TV near you: Summer Sunstorms ©. Submit your name suggestions now. One winner chosen for each letter of the alphabet, one winner per family, judges decisions are final. Winner will appear on camera during 'their' storm. TWC retains all rights to suggested names, and has no liability to winners for non-events.

Dunno what we would do without the marketing department, but I am willing to give it a try.

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Cliff

River City Trio

What if we did all have the same opinions?

Boston is so idiotic, they actually postpone network television and send reporters out all over the region to report on minor snowfalls in real time. We got about a foot of snow. Big deal! You would have thought Hurricane Sandy was coming through again.

When I grew up in upstate New York, the weather guys would come on in the morning and say, "Oh yeah, it snowed 8 inches last night. We forgot to mention that might happen."

- D.

Too bad they spent all that $$$ on effects for "The Day after tomorrow"...
They could have waited some 100-150 years and film it with one camera only. But it wouldn't have been a blockbuster then...

Kidding and sarcasm aside - here, we've seen snow only once this winter.

But temperatures rose up to 12 degrees Celsius which is devastating.
The trees will start to blossom, and then a minus cold will set in for a week or two destroying everything: cherries, plums, apricots, peaches...

It happens 3 years in a row...
And summers keep getting hotter and hotter.

There's a prediction that we'll become part of the African desert in 50-60 years...

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Goki - short from Goran

Let the good drums roll!!!

Trademarked temperatures. That's different.

Biting winds will usher in the frigid air, creating dramatically colder AccuWeather.com RealFeel® temperatures.

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Gregory