Weather With You

Flipping around the satellite system, this morning, I landed on the Weather Channel which was airing a promo for its newest show Turbine Cowboys.

With its increasing infotainment focus, like movies, the Weather Channel is starting to go down the MTV road and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Thanks to the weather at the Not So Vast Right Wing Ranch, I've had to mow the acreage in MARCH.

Also, we were able to dine outside, at Latin King, Saturday night as we celebrated the Mrs. birthday.

That's never happened before, at least not in Iowa.

Looking For The Summer

The Weather Channel might have got this right

Iowa's summer weather was nation's third-worst, Weather Channel says

Probably because it wasn't a forecast, and the scientific community is united in that fact, or didn't have anything to do with global warming.

I think this might be the first summer I didn't eat any corn on the cob.

Mainly, because all anyone sells anymore is that peaches and cream crap, instead of real, yellow. Iowa sweet corn.

Loop De Loop

WHO HD runs promotions telling viewers that "our job is to keep you in the loop" and that the "people and products of Channel 13 News are right there with you".

It makes Chris feel like they're stalking her.

Anyway, their Chief Weather Wienie predicted last night, "Drier weather is on the way Tuesday".

Ed's out of the loop, if it weren't for the rain he would have nailed it and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Ed's forecast was still up on their web site when I penned this piece, because some people didn't update the product.

Its my fault for paying attention to a channel that for two straight newscasts (5 & 6) spelled the Middle River --Middel.

At 5:15ish, last night, Weather Wienie Wilson said the river level at Fleur Drive was 15.99 feet.

At 6, Emily Carlson's lead story had the river over 16 feet (obviously she's smart enough not to listen to Ed).

In his weather segment, Weather Wienie Wilson again stated the river level as 15.99, but tried to cover it by saying it was just in.

Was that current Ed?

A Long Walk

Weather.com, the online site of the Weather Channel, has devoted an article to Comrade Ed Fallon's Long March...err Great March for Climate Action.

Will A 3,000-Mile 'Great March For Climate Action' Change Minds On Climate Change?

Short answer and spoiler alert -- NO!

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

The March1 to November 1 trek about the Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change  will miss most of the winter weather, but I have no doubt there will be some sort of ironic weather event that will be good for a chuckle or two.

Something on the order of Global Warming Scientists Trapped in Antarctic Ice.

Although, if 2013 is any indicator, weather-related disasters in the US are all way down this year compared to recent years and, in some cases, down to historically low levels.


Marchers should also note, the number of 100 degree days across the country during 2013 is not only down for this year, but it is perhaps going to turn out to be the lowest in about 100 years of records.

That should be welcome relief after spending so much time on their dogs. 

Seasons Change

Somebody missed the memo from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Extremes.

The report was released on March 28 and states, “There is medium evidence and high agreement that long-term trends in normalized [property] losses have not been attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change.” 

That's not news to CNN's Alexandra Steele who shared this about the recent tornadoes in Texas --

That’s kind of the climate change we are seeing. Extremes are ruling the roost and what we are seeing, more become the norm.

The mind like a steel trap, nothing in/nothing out, continued -- this global warming is really kind of a misnomer. Global climate change—so the colds are colder and warms are warmer, and the severes more severe.

One can see how that kind of thinking fits right in at CNN and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Why the Weather Channel canned Alexandra Steele, if that's your real name, in the first place is beyond me as that fits their Modus Operandi.

Same Person?

Sara Kelley, weather twinkie on WOI TV/ Channel 5 and Alicia Goranson, the original Becky on Roseanne.