An now, the weather

A small break to complain about the cold and make note of a few human oddities:

Yesterday, I stopped at the local Drug Mart to purchase a small space heater for the living room. With negative degree's forcasted over much of northeastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, it seemed like a good idea. I found a little ceramic space heater, reasonably priced (a relief), a very short distance away from the Easter candy display.

If the weather is below 0 degrees (it is a whopping -2 here) and the wind chill is -20, why do television stations force their meterologists to give the forcast from outside in the bitter weather?

Why did the same lovely weather people feel the need to tell us the temperature in Nome, Alaska was warmer than the current temperatures in central and northeastern Ohio? Was it to make us feel better? I think not.