weather event!

last night, we had a Weather Event! it snowed! wow!

see, here in New England, we no longer have snowstorms and thunderstorms or rain or high winds. we have "Weather Events!". yes, a simple passing shower is now a major Event here in little rhodey. i don't know when our weather people started calling the weather an Event but they do it all the time now. weather forecasters here think they are the bomb. they get a good 6 or 7 minutes of a news broadcast...a disproportionate amount of time, just to tell us we MAY get snow. they have dozens of charts, radar, stats, graphics, and historical data ("on this day in 1938, we had sleet and freezing rain, but today, it will be warm and sunny!"). and why do they always lump sleet and freezing rain together? aren't they the same thing?

i am sick to death of weathermen and women. i don't watch the news anymore. when i want to know what the weather will be like during the week, i listen to the weatherband radio in my car on the way to work. it is quite accurate. if i want to know what the weather will be like on a particular day, i look out the window!

in my opinion, the last Weather Event we had was Hurricaine Gloria in the mid-eighties. the last BIG Weather Event we had was the Blizzard of '78. rain is just rain. snow will fall, it's winter. unless the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse are crossing the state line, i do not what to hear that we are having an Event of any kind, thank you.