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Old 01-21-2011, 03:43 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by forgop View Post
My favorite is the weather lead-in story for every station in town any time there's precipitation. If it comes down hard, you better have someone standing right in the middle of the rain/snow. These networks love for nothing more than snow/rain between 8-10pm, interrupt the show in progress, and trot out their live doppler radar map 258,000 showing the direction the rain is headed, as if we don't have a pretty good idea what general direction it's going already.
A "meteorologist" is the modern-day snake oil salesman. It's prettty sad that for all our technology, The Farmer's Almanac is just as accurate as the local weatherman.
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