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Saturday, August 12, 2006


Death of the dewpoint.
Channel 2 News has introduced the greatest breakthrough in weather forecasting in the past 50 years. They've stopped giving the dew point. Over the weekend, I bowled in a fundraiser for Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Houston. Weatherman Frank Billingsley was on the next lane.

In the fifth frame, he leaned over the ball return and said, "You got your wish. We don't give the dew point any more."

I don't know what the dew point means. How it's calculated. Why it's important. Or how it affects anything in anybody's life.
You're an idiot. Ok, to be fair, I deal with dewpoint a bit more than most of the public, but still, it's pretty short sighted to project your ignorance on others. Actually, if you wanna go that route, let's get rid of everything on the news that we don't understand and/or care about. Wait, wouldn't that be just about all of it?

I guess reporting the dewpoint to the minute fraction of the viewers that know what it means kept getting in the way of the blow-dried weather dude reading the teleprompter and trying to scare the shit out of old people.



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