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I constantly get the "how's that weather in California?" on conference calls.

Well, it's 40 degrees and a downpour on the north coast where my oldest daughter is, and 65 and sunny on the central coast where my youngest daughter is for college. Here in the low Sierra Nevada foothills, we expect plenty of sun and a high of 59. In San Francisco it's 56 and cloudy. Where my employer is located in SoCal, it's 68 and sunny, but at his desert house it's 75 and sunny with a 5 mph wind.

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"Private meteorologist."

A Pirate meteorologist would be more compelling. A lot of plundering, scurvy, peg legs, hooks, eye patches, treasure, Galleons, Spanish doubloons, and those nifty hats!

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Throw in a reference to barometric pressure.

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In St. Louis, back in the 1960's, there was weatherman who would end his presentation with the tag line, "Weather or not, I'm Cliff St. James!". His other gig at the TV station was to host a kid's program on Saturdays called "Corky the Clown". I think his clown work as a weatherman was better than his work as Corky the Clown. Just thinking about these characters gives me a high pressure headache.

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Hmm. Good conversation starter, combination of job and weather.

- Hello, I'm Spud and I'm a Private Meteorologist.

- As opposed to a Public Meteorologist?

- Oh yeah, they go to those online weather sites and also get the weather on the nines or whatever they do on those cable news programs. My sources are DISCRETE.

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I read your delightful riff on the noir detective genre while sitting at my desk drinking a bourbon. For the next couple of hours I had to fight the urge to gratuitously use the word "dame" while talking to my dog.

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Yeah, Polar vortexes used to be "Arctic Air" or "an Arctic front." I hate that they stop calling hurricanes or tropical storms such when they reach the non-tropics. It creates the impression that they are somehow less dangerous. I am a private meteorologist I guess. I took two classes in college- harder than you think, they made you do physics back then. I have two weather stations (one in MD and one in upstate NY) and an entire folder of weather bookmarks. One thing I am thankful for, and I am too happy about it to double-check, but I didn't hear anyone calling this storm by name. I was watching Fox weather online so maybe they just don't do that there. Nevertheless, I am hoping they have done away with naming winter storms. It is lame. Like this autocorrect wanting me to put commas everywhere. I thought we were getting rid of commas?

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You're needing a warm mass from the South.

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This may be my favorite so far.

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Icey Storm would be a good name for a North Pole Dancer, but she was so fridged even Santa couldn't stick a dollar bill in her G-string.

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Blizzards ARE possible. lol

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Here in the heart of "Winter Storm Blair" we just call this a snow storm.

I will give the BBC some credit for posting their story without somehow tying it to global climate change.

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That was laugh-out-loud funny!

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