I don't know why, but I've begun to take pleasure in our local weatherpeople getting the weather wrong so often these days. I'm not sure why I've developed these feelings - perhaps it's because the weatherpeople put so much unnecessary drama into the weather reports that it's fun seeing them get things wrong. Somewhere along the way, the weatherpeople and local news directors have forgotten this simple premise: it's winter, therefore the weather tends to be cold. Corollary: cold weather sometimes brings bad weather with cold, wet things falling from the sky.

So the latest erroneous forecast: last night on the Channel 8 10 p.m. news, Pete Delkus told us, firmly and earnestly, that the "wintry mix" would stay west and north of the Dallas area. Furthermore, after lunch the weather would warm up and there would be no problems at all. This was thoroughly illustrated by an assortment of graphics and weather talk ("Arctic front high pressure westerly movement McFarland Signature in Greenland blah blah blah").

Needless to say, I was just out and about and we have in Dallas both a substantial wintry mix (or whatever that cold substance is falling from the sky), as well as dropping temperatures. Whoops, wrong again. Hah!

(And to the local news director who admonished us for making fun of weatherpeople, this is why we make fun of them: they are often wrong while being earnestly comical at the same time. They also have a bad habit of unnecessarily whipping the public into a frenzy with their forecasts of impending doom.)