Have you noticed over the last few years how weather has become entertainment? We had a series of severe thunderstorms with tornado warnings yesterday afternoon, so the TV media spent hours tracking the storms with their Doppler radars and I must admit we were riveted to the screen. During one ten minute time period they were talking of tornados bearing down in the areas where one of my brothers live and another where my daughter and granddaughter live. Nobody actually got a tornado. In fact once looking at the radar we were under a huge red blob which should have meant heavy rain and thunder and lightening and it wasn't doing anything outside. Just how accurate is super Doppler?
Since the advent of the Weather Channel weather has become news too. In the summer they talk endlessly about heat, then there is hurricane season, followed by snowfalls and spring rains. Nothing is ever just cyclic and part of nature here on planet Earth. There is drama all the time. There is global warming, too much rain, too little rain. And let's not forget "It Could Happen Tomorrow" where all apocalyptic disasters ever conceived by man can be laid out scientifically for your titillation. You can catch that thrill of fear without living through the 8.0 quake, or the tsunami, or Category 5 hurricane.
Its weather, its normal. Deal with it. :D
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