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July 14, 2004

Something only I would find incredibly amusing

Since this site often makes you "sign in" to see the posts, I'll just be a bad girl and copy and paste. This is from the local news station's website where you can basically "speak to the manager" and lodge any complaints or pay a compliment, make suggestions, blah blah blah:

Q: You could "scoop" all the other weather stations and educate children and adults by telling it like it is. Weather systems are basically stationary. The sections of the earth move into or out of the weather due to its rotation and wobble movement. A storm coming from the west is actually the earth rotating to the east. A storm coming from the northwest is the earth moving to the north (relatively speaking).

OK, seriously, does this guy think he has all the answers as compared to a meteorologist who has a degree in this stuff? Or any person remotely interested in the atmospheric sciences, for that matter. Before I ever read the answer, I was highly amused at this guy's idiocy.

A: We checked with WFAA meteorologist (and resident "big brain" when it comes to weather science) Steve McCauley on this question. He looked it over and told us, "Yes, it's true about the earth rotating to the east – but the premise of the argument is false so the conclusions really have no foundation. Using this logic, a storm moving west to east means the earth had to reverse direction and spin the other way – which would cause instant annihilation of life on the planet."

In other words, good idea guy, except for the part about life on Earth ceasing to exist. Who comes up with this stuff??? Seriously.

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