Particles of Weather
Sometimes, the misprint is much better than the intended meaning:
SNOW EXPECTED AT ELEVATIONS ABOVE 6500 TO 7500 FEET WITH POSSIBLE ACCUMULATINOS OF 4 TO 5 INCHES OVER SAWTOOTH AND WASATCH MOUNTAINS.
Accumulatinos sound like an exotic fundamental particle, maybe one produced when enough of some other particle accumulates. ^/^ This is from a warning about likely thunderstorms 'round these parts for the rest of the week.
Oh, and I added a local weather banner to the sidebar in place of the former "god of the day" bit. I figured if I was going to have mythology on the sidebar, it might as well be potentially useful mythology. On a related note, when the cable company rearranged the channels recently, it put the weather channel right next to the sci-fi channel. That was the one change I approved of. (And, no, I still don't have cable; I find I enjoy television much more when I can only watch it someplace else.)
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You've got a veritable heatwave going this morning. It says the temperature there is 37 degrees, while it's only 30 degrees here.
I loved your post this morning -- especially your reference to the weather forecast as "mythology".
^/^ The weather forecast one day in advance is usually reasonably accurate. Usually. The weather forecast for two or more days in advance... If I took a screenshot of the predictions for each day over a week, they'd almost never stay the same, and the earliest predictions often have no connection at all to the final, day-before prediction.
I'm told that people in non-mountainous areas can actually trust the advance forecasts. I've never lived in such an area, so I don't know if this is the case. Still, almost everyone seems to use the phrase: "Don't like the weather? Wait five minutes!" *shrugs*
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