Bob in Jersey wrote: > Mark J.: >> >> It's a weather season, not a storm, and the Las Vegas >> Weather Service office told the local weathermen something >> that is obviously not covered in the Mississippi State >> University mail-order TV metereology course: > > So go tell the guy who wrote the following for Wiki: > "As monsoons have become better understood, the term monsoon has been > broadened to include almost all of the phenomena associated with the > annual weather cycle within the tropical and subtropical land regions of > the earth."
That makes the NWS's complaint even more appropriate. The local weather folks should be providing specific information to the viewing/listening public by using specific language for the warnings (thunderstorm, flash flood, tornado, etc.), rather than an overly broad climatological term like "monsoon." -- Jim Ellwanger <train...@ellwanger.tv> <http://www.ellwanger.tv> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... Smart (TV) People on Ice! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
