Because 2010 is certainly going out with a bang around here.
And yes, I’m alright. Much to the delight of most of you, and to the dismay of my detractors, no tornado whisked me away today.
Cindy Preszler on Channel 5 made the implication that severe spring-like weather doesn’t really happen in St. Louis like it did today. Well, two days after Christmas two years ago, it did. True, there weren’t any tornadoes that I remember, but it was plenty noisy. And the only reason there probably weren’t tornadoes is that, while it was based on a sudden warm front followed quickly by a sudden cool front, it didn’t warm up as much then as it did now, and the cool-down then wasn’t as fast or drastic as it’s going to be tonight into tomorrow.
UPDATE 1/2: The aforementioned hood ornament on Channel 5 implicitly blamed Glow-BULL (not) Warming for the tornado outbreak. Now, before you cower in fear, realize that Dave Murray, who has been a St. Louis meterologist for way longer than the hood ornament, informed us the evening after these tornadoes that the most damaging tornadoes in STL have happened in the winter months. Now, if the hood ornament doesn’t like that, perhaps she can go back to her precious relatives in her precious South Dakota, whose conditions she always used to point out while giving a “shout out” to her parents. Though she doesn’t do it anymore; I guess the suits over an 1K Market had her put a cork in it. You know, she was the Chief Meterologist at WMAQ, the NBC affiliate in Chicago before coming to St. Louis. I know TV news personalities bounce around from town to town, but I thought the idea of the business was to move from smaller to larger markets, the oft-used phrase “paying your dues.” And if you go from a larger to a smaller market, it’s usually because it’s a bigger job in the smaller market media outlet. (E.G. Paul Goodloe, once a weekend meteorologist on Channel 5, moved to smaller Greensboro, N.C., but became the chief meterologist at the station. Now he’s on The Weather Channel.) But the hood ornament had the same job in Chicago that she does now in St. Louis, (chief meteorologist), same affiliated network, same channel number even, (WMAQ is an NBC o&o, while KSDK is Gannett) so it makes me wonder if she didn’t leave WMAQ on the best of terms.
