WEATHER NERD UPDATE...

Yesterday morning was an interesting day here in the Enchanted Mitten. The local weather wags had said that we were in a "Winter Storm Alert," so Deirdre was on the edge of her chair, constantly checking on the weather conditions. The forecast was for 1-3 inches of snow to fall, and Deirdre looked at me and said, "Don't believe it. I doubt that we will get 1-3 inches of snow." Of course, we were watching the Weather Channel. One feature of the Weather Channel is called "Local on the Eights," where the local conditions would be reported every 10 minutes. We had been watching the Weather Channel for perhaps 30 minutes, so I had heard the local conditions two or three times. Just before the "Local on the Eights," I changed the channel to ESPN and the Weather Nerd said to me in a stern voice, "What are you doing?!? It is time for Local on the Eights!" I said to her, "Sorry about that. I did not know that the weather had changed that much since the last update 10 minutes ago." I quickly returned to the Weather Channel and you know what? The conditions had not changed in the past 10 minutes.

And for the record, we did not have 1-3 inches of snow yesterday. We had 8-10 inches fall. Looks like it we will have a white Christmas after all!