Three-letter weather
By Alex Carrier


It’s Virginia. It’s summer. It’s the weather you wear. Or, in meteorological terms: hazy, hot and humid.

I am not a great fan of summer weather. The heat, the humidity, the oppressive warmth really toast me.

Summer weather is no surprise even if the season seems abnormally hotter and longer. Every August in Virginia, you can count on the heat and humidity and the ever present possibility of sudden showers.

Local meteorologists repeat themselves with every forecast. “Hazy, hot and humid with a chance of late afternoon and evening thunderstorms.”

Do you suppose the weather reporters get tired of saying the same thing day after day after day? I say, this year; we give the forecasters a break from redundancy.

I think every able-voiced man, woman and child (anyone who can say these words and keep a semi-serious countenance on video, and if your dog can do why not?) should make a short tape.

All the would-be weather prognosticators need to do is look straight at the lens and say, “Hazy, hot and humid with a chance of late afternoon and evening thunderstorms.”

The news department could put all of these weather want-to-be recordings on a continuous loop of video. Each day, as time rolls around for the repetitive prediction; a new unknown face would voice the familiar words and then fade to commercial.

Send your videos today.

Who knows? We might find the next best weatherman or woman. At the least, we would give all their current counterparts a reprieve from repetition.

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