Jason Sandford
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Hey, look everybody! It’s Sunday morning and guess what – it’s snowing and there’s actually snow on the ground today.
Too bad nobody at WLOS could tell us this would happen. Mother Nature is just adding insult to WLOSers’ injury, now. She’s toying with the weather soothsayers like Duke’s basketball team toys with its ACC opponents.
See, here’s what happened. All day Friday, Mike Cuervo Cuevas and his buddies shouted from the rooftops about an impending massive snowstorm. In a news report Friday night, Cherub Charu compared it to the Blizzard of ’93. Only Saturday, nothing happened. A few flakes here and there.
So that left Julie Blunder apologizing for the eff up on the 6. Then Cuervo came back up off the bench to do his thing at 11.
“I know my kids were sure disappointed,” he told viewers. “I dont know what happened. We’ll try to explain what happened, next up,” Cuervo said, all humble and contrite.
So Cabana Boy goes through the cycle of dazzling weather graphics and maps and puts ’em in motion and shit, all to cover the fact that he totally and completely muffed his futurecast.
And when he comes to predicting what will happen Sunday, today, he totally downplays it. Once bitten, twice snow-shy, we suppose. But Cuervo was absolutely blase about today’s weather. A few flurries, a few bands of snow showers. Nothing much, was what he was telling us.
Well, it’s been snowing all morning, Mikey. Outside my kitchen window, where I had none Saturday, I know have about 2.5 inches. And it’s still coming down.
Here’s the other funny thing – at 11, Mike and Candy got into all this happy talk about the snow. “When are we gonna get some snow?” Candy whined.
Suddenly, snow was good, was positive, was fun for the kids. Just one day after snow was horror and danger and nastiness, according to the tone of WLOS weather-guessers and news readers, it was all sunshine and light.
Go figure.
Yes and no, Sally. The forecast on the front page of the website is done by the local meteorologists (lowercase "m" to cover all of them). Clicking the radar takes you to AccuWeather’s site for the information, but the other forecast info on wlos.com comes from the local folks, who use AccuWeather, the National Weather Service and probably several other sources to help them come up with their own (theoretically) more accurate forecast for the immediate area than the far-away sources can provide.
The accuweather forecast is not updated from WLOS, but from the national Accuweather company.
Pulled this off of WLOS’ front page at 9:22 AM
Today’s AccuWeather Forecast
SATURDAY NIGHT: Scattered Snow Showers, Flurries, 26.
SUNDAY: Partly sunny, cold and windy. 34.
SUNDAY NIGHT: Few Clouds, Cold, 22.
They still don’t think there is any snow.