Thursday, January 19, 2017

Extreme Weather Warning

I'm organizing photos on my computer and a pop-up pops up. It's a winter weather warning for my area, Baja Arizona. The threat is rain.

True, we had about an inch over the last weekend. Ground is still damp after a few days of sunshine. The forecast is for a few days of rain. Apparently, that's cause for a warning interruption.

We do get rain in the winter. It also gets cold. It's about 56F now, about the same as the water in the swimming pool in which I just dipped. It will get into the low forties late in the night. That's cold for us, but it's not like anything to worry about.

It's fantasy news. Some idiot program, written by some profit-oriented business, hypes reality for the sake of visibility. Winter rain is seasonal. No one needs a warning. If one is doing something for which the weather is relevant, one looks it up. Otherwise, winter rain will not kill you. But news and weather are business. So this idiot program interrupts my computer to warn me about winter weather.