The Weather Game

 

Do you like being kept awake all night by thunderstorms?  I sure do.  That's what happened last night.  

It seems rainier than usual this June.  I suppose that was somehow caused by our President.   Or the wrath of God.  Mostly what I'm trying to figure out is if there will be a tornado.   The rain is nice.  Distant thunder is nice.  Crashing cymbals all night is not nice.  

These thoughts cause me to check the weather.   There are several options on the internet.   Are they reliable?  Hmmm....   Somebody's not reliable, because if you see the prediction for the highs and lows, one will tell you about 70º, the other about 88º.  Also, they can't get together on whether it will rain, or if there will be a thunderstorm.  They sometimes seem to look outside to see what's going on, and still get it wrong.  

You know what annoys me with the weather sites and their weather reports?   Suppose you would like to check weather in your area.  Will it rain?  Will it be hot today?  Who cares?  There's a tornado in Lubbock Texas!   If there's a tornado in Texas, your weather is suspended.   All you will hear is that there's a storm chaser live and there will be video of someone's dash cam showing the highway in Lubbock Texas, a lot of rain and the windshield wipers going back and forth.   Every now and then there will be a radar map of the Lubbock area showing the intensity of the storm in Lubbock.   And will this storm hit anywhere else in Texas?   Then videos of flowerpots that were blown over.   It's all perfectly well and good to report on tornados, but other people need to hear a forecast about their weather too.  You'll not find anything on the internet for the rest of the day and most of the night about weather outside of Lubbock.  Then...."The saga of Lubbock," "The Tragedy of Lubbock," "Stories of the Lubbock Survivors...Their Fears, Their Courage, Their Hopes and Dreams."   

Another favorite thing to do is to cancel the weather because there is a warning.  Then I suppose the weather people take the rest of the day off.  The weather radio will have an endless loop about going to your safe place.   What kind of gear do you need to take?  Oh, let's see.  An umbrella.  One of the more interesting videos was a broadcast from a TV station doing the weather report.  They reported on a tornado in the area.  Someone took a camera to the window..  Yep.  That's a tornado.  It's coming this way.  Soon everyone was scattering to the storm shelter.   The weatherman continued his report, urging viewers to go to their safe place.   Soon the video goes topsy turvy.