To the founder's credit, he's no longer with The Weather Channel. He founded what we all call "old-school weather channel" when they could have been called the weather version of CNN, and no ads either. In the last few years they've found themselves (like a lot of TV media) having to make the hard decision between catering to the "brainless-short-attention-span/all-about-me" generation, or go off the air for lack of financial support. Everywhere you look, networks are putting total brainless hyped-up entertainment on TV because today's audiences have a much lower tolerance for real information or the slower pace necessary to report it.
I'm surprised at the report of ticks in the state already! Doesn't take them long after the snow melt to come out of hiding. All of yesterday's inch of snow has now melted, and the lake ice continues to slowly do the same. Radar indicates rain moving out of the area and slow clearing is on the forecast for today. We've actually started the day at freezing, rather than below freezing... another sign that spring is here.
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