GAS PAIN: Jeff Neatrour of Crosby tells us he paid $1.98 a
gallon for gas on Sunday in Brookville. True to form, Bradford’s
price this week has been in the $2.20 range.
WEATHER WORD: There must be quite a few Bradford residents who
tune in to the Weather Channel for their daily forecast.
We had a “pet peeve” a few weeks ago about the absence of a
local forecast, and got a fair number of people who had noticed the
same thing – and got to the root of the problem.
First, though, we must report that the local forecast has
returned to the Weather Channel.
What caused the problem? Several people had contacted the
Weather Channel and/or Atlantic Broadband and learned that severe
thunderstorms in mid November were the likely culprit.
From what we pieced together, the storm apparently caused a
glitch in the Weather Star computer which is responsible for
generating the local forecast and current conditions data.
Once that was “fixed,” the information was back up and
running.
Our thanks to the many people who provided this update.
Incidentally, when double-checking to make sure the Weather
Channel was up and running we observed our five-day forecast which
looks like winter is really here. In fact, by the time you read
this it will probably look like a nice, white Christmas.
Just recently, we had clipped Another Era from 100 years ago
which amused us: “Weather prophets are predicting a long, cold
winter – it is very thoughtful of them to impart information to us
that we already possess.”
It’s pretty hard to go wrong predicting a “long, cold winter” in
Bradford, we must agree.
The science of predicting the weather certainly has improved in
the past decade or two, but it’s still an imprecise
undertaking.
But remember the days when there were no weather advisories,
warnings and watches? What a blessed relief to not know we were in
for 12 more inches of snow!
TODAY’S QUOTE: “I’m much more concerned about the fact that
newsmen are trying to act like entertainers than I am by the fact
that entertainers are pretending to be newspeople,” said
Nightline’s Ted Koppel in 2004.
