Jason Sandford
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Their faces said it all Saturday night. Their egg-covered faces.
Candy Little and Julie Blunder did everything they could to apologize for the lack of snow, despite their own weather soothsayers calling for a doomsday scenario one day earlier. Candycane made sure that the infotainmentcast contained lots of photos of snow, but also had to admit that it was mostly in the higher elevations. It pained her to say so.
Wunder apologized for the temperature rising just one or two degrees above what had been predicted, thus resulting in the miserable cold rain, rather than a blinding snowstorm. In her follow up futurecast, she stressed that some people will get some snow, while others will not. That’s what I call one useful weather report.
Julie also showed us a couple of useful graphics. One showed counties that remain under a “heavy snow warning” or something, then was sure to add that that was coming from the National Weather Service. Blame them, she was saying. She also showed us a graphic of snow totals from around the region, apparently called in by any redneck with a ruler. WLOS calls them “weather spotters.” I call them about as reliable as James Frey.
There apparently wasn’t news of any other sort but weather. Mary Jugliquor stood beside a dry road with a live stand-up, urging us to “look closely at the moisture on this road.” The camera failed to zoom in, so we couldn’t see the microscopic bits of moisture undoubtedly collected on the roadtop.
But that was just the kind of moisture that could turn into dangerous ice later on, Mary said. Then she proceeded to show us some video of how wrecks can happen on – shock – dry pavement, too. Incredible.
Finally, what was up with Julie, Candy and Jenny Dumb all wearing red tonight? Jenny actually mentioned it. “It must be Valentine’s Day coming up,” Candy said. Uh, ok. Only Valentine’s Day is next Tuesday, Candy. But good try.
Could be worse (on mistaking which similar looking/sounding anchor did something): this is the station that had, at various times, the combinations of Ken-Ken-Ken (Owen – news, Bostic – weather, Adelson – sports) and Mike-Mike-Mike (Hydeck – news, Bettes – weather, Morgan – sports) anchoring together.
mike – right-o. sorry ’bout that. jenny. julie. in red. reading news. don’t know how i got ’em mixed up. thanks for the correx.
ash: "whatever – excuse me, but "Jenny" is a weather-guesser. so how does she have "nothing" to do with it?"
No, really, excuse *me*. Jenny is a sports-guesser. That’s how she has "nothing" to do with it.
john – you’re right.
whatever – excuse me, but "Jenny" is a weather-guesser. so how does she have "nothing" to do with it? and news people "report" on the weather, if you want to call charu’s and mary’s segments "reports.
and they’re red-faced because they were the ones stuck doing the newscast saturday, while everyone who messed it up was off.
bulldog – right on. amazing how that happens, how the forecast is "according to the National Weather Service" when there’s a problem. Otherwise, they can go on and on about upper level atmospheric disturbances and new bands of energy that might bring another snow event.
They are all totally clueless,an embarassing line up of freaks.I have seen several blogs blasting these folks. Everyone that has had any kind of talent-personality has left,to never admit they were ever with WLOOSers. Thanks for your thoughts, I know now that I am not alone.
Amazing that with 3 people forecasting weather, none of the trio comes close to getting it right. When they do, it’s "As we first reported last night at 11 …" When they blow it, it’s "According to the National Weather Service …"
It wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t pretend to be such friggin experts, and devote so much time to weather and blather about high pressure systems and barometric pressures ad infinitum.
And then there’s the two minutes wasted on "Let’s look back at the last six hours." Hell, I was there. I know what happened the last six hours, or at least most of them." Tell me with some degree of certainty what it’s going to do NOW, or TOMORROW!
why would candice and jenny have red faces because of the botched forecast???
candice and jenny haven’t even been at work since earlier in the week…
that’s stretching a little yourself ash.
news and sports people ahve nothing to do with the weather.
They all wore red to blend in with their red faces from the botched forecast. And comparing this storm in advance to the "blizzard of 93" was one of the biggest horse poop things I have ever seen them do. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY but WLOS (including internet weenies) was trying to make a comparision.