Generally speaking, J and I find weathermen rather annoying. They have this universal habit of being entirely too excited about their daily 15 minutes of fame.

“You’ll never believe what we’ve got in store for you tonight. That weather we’ve been having? It’s going to … (…wait for it…) … CHANGE!”

Tonight there are tornado warnings in the area. By the way they’re covering it, you’d think we were on the brink of Armageddon. And our friendly neighborhood weathermen are at their best - brilliantly and flawlessly stating (and restating) the obvious.

“Now it’s starting to get dark, so that will make it harder to see.”

“It’s possible that this tornado will be rain-wrapped, which means it will be wrapped in rain.”

When they run out things to circle on their color boards for what’s currently going on, they start reporting on the possibility of weather.

“This is serious, folks. We haven’t had a confirmed tornado sighting yet, but we could be seeing the development of something that might become the formation of tornado conditions in this area, down through here.”

“I’ll bet sometime there will probably be some hail reported in this area right here.”

Well, the satellite TV just went out so I guess that’s all we’re going to hear about that.  Our little suburb isn’t in danger of anything more than some thunderstorming, so I guess it’s time to pull up a chair and watch the fireworks.

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