"The Sky Is Falling"

Once again it is time for the local TV stations to unleash upon us "The Chicken Little School of Meteorolgy." E.G. If a snowflake is expected to fall, all sorts of visual alerts and audio sounders will be broadcast to prepare us for the onslaught of winter.

By gosh, if there is any chance of the ground turning white . . .

THERE WILL BE AN ALERT!

Gasp! Winter. Snow. "Batten down the hatches, watch for schools and businesses to close, there will be hordes descending on grocery stores to prepare for the long blast of an inch of snow."

Give me a break!

Before TV weather people got their hands on gadgets and technology powerful enough to scare the living daylights out of us, all they had were whiteboards and dry erase markers. The only thing that scared us then was the squeak of the marker tip on the board surface.

Step back and take some valium. Just give us the basic information we need.

Or, maybe we need to get NOAA Weather radios and listed to how professionally and factfully the climatolgical prognosticators the folks at the National Weather Service present the weather.

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