HOT

Yes, it's hot. I know Luke likes the gaudy presentation so I would like to point out the flames coming up from Thursday and Friday. Notice that the weather people have started Twittering. I think it's kind of cool, because Pete Delkus on WFAA started Twittering and he's already great at severe weather updates. When there is bad weather he stays up all night explaining where the rotation is on the radar and checking in with the chopper and all that. But, you know, Pete's in his 50's so when I read this post from last week I thought for sure his account had been hijacked:

"what a night!! from porno to a sloppy drunk...one i won't forget anytime soon!"

I was like, whoa Pete! Get a hold of yourself! Then I read the previous post:

"the drunk guy is still outside...he is so smashed he is falling all over the place!"

and the one before that...
"we have some guy outside the studio at victory park right now that is stumbling drunk!! he just urinated on the building!!!!"

and the one before that...
"i'm getting twitter porn!!!! who's doing this?????"

So then I kind of figured out the meaning of the first post. It's just so weird hearing the weather guy be so chatty and informal, I guess because I always felt like weatherpeople had a formal persona on the news. They're like public school teachers; there's an unwritten rule that they shouldn't be getting wasted at the summer festival downtown, or going grocery shopping in goth getup. They're public figures and they're supposed to be model citizens, even when they're off the clock. There's a certain level of polite impersonal behavior that everyone agrees on.

Now with Facebook and Twitter, there is a collision of traditions. Because weatherpeople on TV are brisk, cheery, authoritative, and a bit detached. But people on Twitter are highly personal, subjective, and basically trying to find the most unique thing they can say to sort of define their personality and interpret their current situation. So weatherpeople on Twitter are... talking about Twitter porn and drunks outside urinating in public. That's OK. I just need to get used to it. It's probably really boring reporting the weather during summer in North Texas anyways: Sunny and hot.