A fat rodent got all the attention a few days ago, so of course today is dedicated to the real weather forecasters. Today is National Weatherperson’s Day, in honor of John Jeffries, credited as the father of American weather observation (it’s his birthday).
Let’s watch a few videos that might horrify the man were he still alive, why don’t we?
Yeah, we need something to occupy our time better, probably.
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Why is it always Mt. Washington? We have mountains in Colorado. Surely there are similar conditions here, somewhere.
At least the pants thing was original. I’m so over the boiling water demo.
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Yes there are suitable mountains in Colorado such as Pikes Peak and Mount Evans both of which I have visited. I drove to the top of both of these mountains many years ago.
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As did I. And the Mt Evans road scared me half to death. The worst part was having to go back down the same road to get home.
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I don’t think I will be driving to the top of Mount Evans again but I would like to visit Pikes Peak again. However, this time I will ride on the cog railway to the top instead of driving.
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I don’t know when you last drove up Pikes Peak, but it’s paved all the way up now. Yep, I’d like to try the cog rail someday.
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Oops, that went in the wrong place.
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I drove to the summit of Pikes Peak in July 1995.
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While I was married, I wanted to take my wife to Pikes Peak and ride the cog railway to the summit of the mountain but we never had the opportunity to do that.
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With this kind of weather back in Vermont, we’d probably bring hot coffee along with the beer to a picnic.
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Bringing beer and hot coffee to the picnic? I will drink to that with a bottle or two of Shiner Bock.
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When I first started dating my ex-husband in 1984, he still talked about the Blizzard of ‘78. He lived in Rhode Island and scoffed at what we Texans considered cold.
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Did your ex-husband ever visit the Texas Panhandle during the winter? In the Panhandle, there is nothing to stop the cold winds from the north during the winter because it is so flat.
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In that first video, I like the fact that the female news anchor kept her cool and did not panic or start screaming when that bird landed on her head.
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When I was a teenager, I remember reading the following story about an unintentionally funny incident which occurred on the evening newscast on a local television station somewhere in Michigan. The night before this station’s weatherman had predicted they would get eight inches of snow sometime during the night and then it did not snow. The next day on the evening newscast when the female news anchor finished reading the headlines, she turned to the weatherman and asked him live on the air, “So where’s that eight inches you promised me last night?”
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That weatherman in Great Britain who did the weather forecast with his head detached from his neck must have gotten the idea for that stunt from the song “With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm” by Robert P. Weston, Harris Weston, and Bert Lee. Several people have recorded this song and my favorite version was recorded by the late Caryl P. Weiss. This song is about Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII.
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Groundhog Day is my all-time favorite comedy movie. Just saying
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I usually try to watch it, but I haven’t this year. It’s gonna take me a bit to get back to a semi-normal routine.
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