Weather Report: Accurate but Misleading
Midland sees record rainfall for March 11
That's the sub-headline (OK, what's the proper term for that?) in an article in this morning's paper reporting on yesterday's welcome rain. According to the National Weather Service, Midland received more rainfall yesterday than on any other occurrence of March 11 in recorded history. You have to read carefully* to find that that historically significant event totaled just over a quarter inch of rain -- .27" to be exact.
Up next: Red lights stop traffic all over town!
*Giving credit where it's due, the report did refer to the total as "only .27." Any excessive arm-waving is all mine.
It occurs to me -- not for the first time -- that I really should create a category entitled "Weather," thus enabling you to more easily ignore entire blocks of posts, rather than just a post at a time. I'll have my people look into it.
I think the industry term for that is "shorter letters that go under the tall ones."
In book publishing, it's "portion of the title that follows the colon and is either shorter, italicized, or both."
You can thank me later for pointing that out.
Posted by: Jim at March 12, 2007 01:36 PMOw! All this technical jargon is giving me a headache!
Gwynne, depth is way overrated. Besides, it's a well known fact that people can drown in a half inch of water. (It remains to be seen if the same applies to .27" however.)
Posted by: Eric at March 12, 2007 01:42 PMAbout the publisher
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Heh. That's funny. Just last night, I added "weather" as a category. The realization that this pretty much summarized the "depth" of my blog humbled me a little. ;-)
Posted by: Gwynne at March 12, 2007 11:14 AM