I just realized the other day that I am completely and utterly weather ignorant.  Everyone that isn’t me always seems to know what the weather is going to be for, like, the next month and I barely even know if it’s cloudy or bright at the moment.  How is that possible?  I mean, I’ll look out the window at work and see snow and be all “Hmmm...snow.  How ‘bout that.” Or it’ll be raining and I’ll be all “Hmmm...rain.  How ‘bout that.” Or it’ll be hailing cats and dogs and I’ll be all - well, you get the idea.

Oh sure, I try to be hip and join in with all of my non-weather-challenged friends.  “A big cold front coming in tonight?  Yeah, I TOTALLY knew about that!” Then I run in, change out of my shorts and into something more “cold appropriate” and stop wondering why all of my friends are wearing their cardigans.  I don’t wish to be a weather outcast and my friends never treat me as such but I’m pretty sure that they know the truth.

I think that I could overcome this flaw of mine if only I could get some help.  Maybe if the news would give us the weather as well.  Or, wait...wait...I’ve got it!  A 24 hour weather channel!  Eureka!  That’s IT!  I know it sounds crazy and maybe even a little stupid but they could have this TV channel where people would just tell you what the weather is going to be everywhere.  They could report on big storms and little storms and medium sized storms and have reporters stand out in nasty weather and get blown about and oh, how we’ll laugh!  Then they can…

Huh?  What’s that you say?  They already have one of those?  Have for years?

Oh.

Crap.