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Apr 06, 2006 15:07

According to an email I just received, there is a possibility of bad weather this afternoon. This scares me. Not because weather scares me, but because Kansas City weather people scare me. But I won't write about that, because if I ranted in my journal every time a member of the KC media annoyed me, you'd all delete me in about four hours.[1 ( Read more... )

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creamofwheat April 6 2006, 21:45:40 UTC

Oooooooooooooooooh I like it here when the graphic is just a map with an arrow or a red dot on it. Once I see EXACTLY where the news happened it means soooo much more to me.

Tools.

jupiter29 April 7 2006, 16:09:43 UTC

Yeah, graphics have come a long way since I was a kid. Once when I was much younger I watching the weather report and back then they didn't have any radar or anything. They just had each day of the week and a little picture of what you would see in the sky (clouds, rain, snow, whatever). Except the next Thursday was Thanksgiving so they had turkeys in the picture. And I yelled "Giant turkeys in the sky! Run!!!!!"

I'm pretty sure my grandmother checked to see if I'm broken into the liquor cabinet. :)

creamofwheat April 7 2006, 16:21:48 UTC

OMG it's just like that episode of WKRP in Cincinatti!

jupiter29 April 7 2006, 18:26:47 UTC

Exactly! Except these seemed bigger. So it's worse. And probably not as funny. :)

curlicue April 6 2006, 22:25:06 UTC

Bwahahaha. I feel the same about the morons who report news here. "Floridians bundling up and covering plants" because the temps are going to drop below 40"....180 MILES NORTH OF HERE....

Weather is never just weather...it's a NEWS STORY. Since Florida emerged from the ocean, it's been HOT here in the summers. A bout 88 most days in June, July, August. The heat and moisture cause shortlived thunderstorms about three days a week.

Used to be "hoo boy, it's gonna be hot, with a 40% chance of showers." Now it's HEAT INDEX this and SUN FACTOR that. Sheesh.

jupiter29 April 7 2006, 16:10:53 UTC

What the heck is the "Sun factor"? Yep, there's a sun today. That should make it hotter!

curlicue April 7 2006, 21:48:04 UTC

Sun factor tells you how long you can stay outside before you burn (I'm not making this up). Guess what? Hot sunny summer day? high sun factor. I'm not kidding. I missed my calling as a meteorologist.

Guess what? Every day in the summer is sunny here, exc for the 30 minute tunderstorm every afternoon. Sheesh!

jupiter29 April 8 2006, 12:14:32 UTC

Wow, interesting. It makes the nerd in me curious. Is there some sort of conversion factor from the temperature to this scale? Like, take the temperature and divide but whatever the hell you want and then add some common sense?