PET PEEVE DU JOUR

Weather forecasts. Does it really take 30 minutes to say it’s going to be hot today? Is the viewer really impressed with all the “bells and whistles” (the simulated jetstreams, the dissolving map backgrounds, the daily lessons on the intricacies of how weather works)? Shouldn’t we just get a copy of the Farmers Almanac for the yearly forecast and buy back a couple of 100 hours of personal time?