I Miss Our Drama Queens.....Sorta

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Joy Dorsey (@JoyDorsey ) and I live in the same city. We have the same complaints, too: our "drama queen" TV weathermen. And yes, it's the weather men who are guilty of this. With the wild weather we've had in the past few days, I miss their theatrics. Sorta. It wasn't that long ago that I actually had an Excel spreadsheet at work, and we'd actually look forward to the forecast of a winter storm...just to have a good laugh over their predictions. Their predictions were all over the map: going from station to station (not the David Bowie album, mind you ), you'd get predictions ranging from half a foot of snow to no snow whatsoever. Now? It's almost like they're scared to make a guess. Last week, as they began to warn us of this historic weather storm (and folks, when it snows in Galveston, Texas, it IS historic!), none of the four TV stations' weather guessers would commit to a number in terms of "how much" snow was "significant snow." They'd all parrot that term -- "significant snow" -- and not venture out, almost as if they'd slip and fall on being wrong as if they'd hit an ice patch. So, as the storm neared they all walked out on the exact same limb and said that Louisville would get four to eight inches. Well, guess what. Since they all walked on the same limb, they all fell down. The atmosphere, they explained, had a layer of warm air that allowed for much more sleet than they had expected. As a result, we didn't get half the snow they were predicting. It seems that, that with the advent of all these "models" (no, not the Christie Brinkley kind), the forecasts with events like this are getting worse instead of better. As one meteorologist explains it, the "models" don't do well in calculating things like this to factor in the "dynamic cooling," which may cause it to snow more (or less). It was more fun when one station was predicting three feet and another was predicting three snowflakes! Meanwhile, you can always rely on myLot's own chief meteorologist, Scott Andersen (@DocAndersen ) for a 100% accurate report on yesterday's weather! If you need a good laugh, watch this clip of a weatherman's computer temperature input getting a little haywire...and, to his credit, runs with it!!