We've become a society obsessed by weather... snow, sleet, freezing rain, rain, wind, downdrafts, downbursts, tornadoes, hurricanes, sunshine, cold, hot, warm, freezing, heat wave, El Nino, La Nina, Katrina, typhoon, monsoon, tsunami, drizzle, light and variable, barometric pressure, cold front, warm front, jet stream, isobars, and so on.
It's so much so anymore that channel 22 gives you a full forecast in the first minute. When a storm threatens to hit and ends up hitting, it takes up half the newscast. But if it's hyped, and it misses, then people go so far as making death threats on the meteorologists. Makes you shake your head.
In surfing all the TV news websites, one in Buffalo is remembering the Blizzard of '77. There are so many blizzards up in the Great Lakes region that it's hard to discern that one from the one in '78 to the one this past October. My favorite was the one in 1993. It started Friday night and didn't let up until Sunday morning, then there was no school for two days. In January 1996, we had back to back blizzards, then 60 degree temperatures and a nasty rainstorm melted everything. The threat for flooding was so real that downtown Wilkes-Barre was evacuated. Then last June, the flooding that hit us hard here in Schuylkill County also casued evacuations in W-B.
The call was for two to four inches tonight, but now it's only an inch. We shall see.
Website of the day: http://www.erh.noaa.gov/ctp The National Weather Service website for Central PA.
Talk with you at 6:00. Buckle up.
TS
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