Monty by Jim Meddick for January 07, 2019

The studio’s in Hawaii and they’re smirking at you.

Ever notice how a 2" snow forecast turns into Snowmageddon? The forecast center has a nitrous mask and they are getting more manic as they prepare the forecast.

Well to be fair, how many people does E.B. actually know?

That’s because they are splitting profits with the supermarket owners…

You don’t need pause to tell that Jim Cantore loves bad weather.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdRWGMyeSYY

I hear ya Monty, those traffic reporters love burning 10 car pile-ups.

My ideal job: TV weatherman in Phoenix, AZ. You show up on January 1, change your tie 365 times, and leave the studio for the year, having recorded that many variations on “Today it’s gonna be hot, sunny, and dry.”

News 12?

I am waiting for Monty to discover that Thomas Nast lived in Morristown…

Better reading than Antoine Le Blanc’s Morristown outcome, but I can think of a certain little boy is this strip who might be interested behind the scenes in that…

I used to know a guy who taped the weather forecast so he could check it the next day and see how accurate they were. If there was anything slightly different he’d write an angry letter to the TV station: “You predicted a high of 64 and it only got up to 63!”

Monty is obsessing on the weathercasters, not the weather! Monty is strange. —As if we needed any more proof….

They have to be weather geeks to start with. Different training from being a climatologist.

Well, I psychoanalyze Tom Skilling, a local weatherman, when he says we’re going to get 12" of snow on July 4th. I kid you not. The Tomster lives in his own special place.

Around the Boston area, a simple light gentle snowfall is called a snowSTORM!!!

How is 4 to 6 inches of snow, or even 8 to 10 inches, bad weather? Unless Monty was greedily hoping for a bigger storm, it sounds pretty glorious to me!