CAUTION CAUTION WARNING WARNING

From NOAA:


...HOTTEST TEMPERATURES IN 3 YEARS FORECAST FOR THIS WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK...

A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS AND TENNESSEE VALLEY OVER THE WEEKEND...CAUSING AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES TO RISE WELL INTO THE 90S AND THE HEAT INDEX TO RISE OVER 100 DEGREES AT MANY LOCATIONS. THIS IS THE FIRST HEAT WAVE OF THE SEASON...AND WILL PROBABLY BE THE HOTTEST WEATHER IN THE REGION SINCE THE SUMMER OF 2002.

THE HOTTEST TEMPERATURES AND HEAT INDICES WILL BE EXPERIENCEDTODAY THROUGH TUESDAY. SUNSTROKE...HEAT CRAMPS AND HEAT EXHAUSTION WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH PROLONGED EXPOSURE AND OR PHYSICAL OUTDOOR ACTIVITY.



I love how all of NOAA's bullitens are in all caps...

I just imagine this meterologist a la a summer ecological disaster movie in dirty shirtsleeves on his eleventh cup of coffee. He hasn't slept in twenty-seven hours. He is haggard and frenzied.

By God, he thinks, they won't listen to me in Washington. My only hope is the Interweb!

Then he FURIOUSLY pounds out the message on the keyboard, begging, pleading for attention. The masses must be warned! His voice must be heard!

"CAUTION," he yells to himself, "A LOW PRESSURE AREA IN THE GULF OF MEXICO HAS BECOME MORE ORGANIZED THIS AFTERNOON AND IS EXPECTED TO DROP THREE TO FIVE INCHES OF RAIN ON THE COAST OF ALABAMA AND FLORIDA LATER THIS EVENING OR EARLY TOMMORROW!"