Time You Enjoy Wasting Is Not Wasted Time

So I took the day off today. I needed to catch up on some mundane things like laundry. Plus a day to myself is always a nice break. It also gives me some time to post here.

Why do weather reporters feel the need to give us ‘Winter Weather Advisories’? It’s winter, I expect it to be cold and snowy. Just tell me how cold and how much snow. Don’t give all these alerts telling me to expect winter weather. Give me an alert if it is going to be so cold that I will get frostbite just by going outside. Give me an alert if there is a blizzard. But don’t give me an alert to say the temps will be in the 20′s and we will get 3-6 inches of snow. It’s March in Fredonia. I expect it to be in the 20′s and to get snow. My favorite alert came in on my weather toolbar in my browser. It told me there was a severe weather alert in Fredonia, NY. So I checked it out and this is what it told me:

A GENERAL SNOWFALL EXPECTED TODAY.

Well thanks for that helpful alert National Weather Service. I don’t know what I would have done without the knowledge that a general snowfall is expected for today. I hope this doesn’t carry over into the other seasons, where I’ll get spring weather alerts like “It’s rainy out today” or summer alerts like “Boy it’s a hot one out there today”. It’s called seasonal weather for a reason. Tell me when the weather is unseasonable. Is it going to snow in June? Then alert me. Should I expect all the roads to be closed today because we are expecting 3-6 inches in an hour? Alert me. But 3-6 inches all day is seasonal weather as far as I’m concerned. It does not warrant a special alert. Just put it in the forecast and leave the alerts for the real emergencies.