Last night we had some severe weather roll through the Tri-State area. It was weird, though - small spotty thunderstorms with potential for tornadic activity. I, personally, saw three strikes of lightning and about a minute of rain. Other folks, from what I understand, had it worse.

It's hard to tell, since the Weathermen who report on this stuff tend to make a big deal about EVERYTHING. A small county in Kentucky's farm lands decides to issue a Severe Thunderstorm Watch... oh, no! Time to break into programming and show off our new gadgets and gizmos! You know when the camera is off, these guys are bouncing around like a kid on Christmas. I'm just waiting for one of them to forget they're live and start gushing about how cool all this stuff is.

Plus, this is their moment in the sun, their chance to shine. On the normal broadcasts, they come in for a few minutes, show the temps for the next five days and say "Tomorrow is going to be partly sunny and humid." No respect. But the severe weather rolls in and it's go time! They're the stars - the camera is for them alone! I'm going to get my local daytime Emmy for sure!

So, essentially, what could be a scroll on the bottom of the screen saying "Farmland County has just issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch until 9:30pm" ends up being half an hour of an opportunistic, albeit highly educated, weatherman showing twenty radar views of the same thing, reiterating that such a storm could have tornadic activity, and listing the cities, towns and roads(!) the storm could cross. Anything to fill time.

Weathermen. Sheesh.