Severe weather warning
Yet again, www.weather.com has been predicting thunderstorms in Evanston all day and I still have yet to see a single one. I'm wondering if the nature of American weather forecasts is affected by the consumer population's need for continual stimulation and excitement. I'm imagining the conversation in the forecasting room: "Looks like we're going to be having a nice sunny day today, with slightly increasing cloud cover in the afternoon", "No, we can't have that, it's nowhere near exciting enough, we'll never get the revenue from the advertisers, better stick in a few thunderstorms to keep them coming back for updates. And add in a severe weather warning for good measure."
posted by Claire @ 1:57 pm
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4 Comments:
Maybe you should try a different website. I use a nice plug-in for firefox from www.accuweather.com which seems pretty good on the weather for Jerusalem (`Sunny, Sunny, Blowing Dust, Sunny').
On an entirely unrelated note, I'm afraid I disagree about the film of The Da Vinci Code. It's every bit as stupid as the book, if not more so.
I must say, it is exciting when you do get the thunderstorms, though. I miss that about American summers... enjoying a nice, sunny day, then within 10 minutes the sky has gone black and evil and lightning is striking everything around you. Fantastically exciting - much better than the UK weather forecast of "bright spots developing." You're just jealous cause we have cool extreme weather, and you have "bright spots." Which aren't even all that bright.
You're right, it is very exciting. We eventually got said thunderstorm at about 8pm. The sky got blacker and blacker and the lake did the same. And to add to the excitement, we'd been out sailing on the lake until about 5 minutes before. Derigging in a thunderstorm... mmmm.
Hey---there's nothing wrong with English weather. We may not have extremes, but we do have subtlety. There are many different shades of grey.
I think I see a bright spot.
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