Molly and I and the rest of the family are taking a vacation to Cabo San Lucas. We wanted to see how hot it was going to be so we turned to our "trusty" weatherman, Matt Zaffino. Under the section for Mexico, there were only 7 or 8 cities listed. Cabo San Lucas wasn't one of them. Real useful, Matt Zaffino. I guess we'll just take the weather for San Diego and the weather for Puerta Vallarta and average them. That will get us close enough.
Why would Matt Zaffino not include all of the cities in Mexico? It can't be that there isn't enough space on the weather page since he clearly had room to include all 9 of the cities in Africa and the Middle East. Could it be that Matt Zaffino is ethnocentric and thinks that all Mexican cities other than Acapulco and Puerta Vallarta are swine flu infested, drug trafficking havens not worthy of mention on his illustrious weather page? That can't be right since he includes Salem.
The answer is more simple than than. Matt Zaffino must have flunked geography. Maps can be kind of tricky to read. It's much easier to look at something with the resolution of a desk globe and determine that there must be only 8 cities in all of Mexico.
Matt Zaffino does the same thing with his own state. Why is there no Corvallis on the weather page? There are only 25,000 people who drive there every other Saturday in the fall who want to know if it's going to rain. You'd think that may be a useful city to include. It's not included because Matt Zaffino doesn't know that Corvallis is a town in Oregon. It wasn't on the map he looked at. Burns shows up, but Burns also shows up on the globe because there isn't anything else within miles of there.
Molly and I should send Matt Zaffino a link to Mapquest so he'll realize there's a whole world outside of the Storm Team Weather Room.
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OK - now I'm trying to figure out if a blog is libelous or slanderous. Libel is written, which applies here, but since it is a blog and that is supposed to be kind of like free range talking it could be slander - or maybe both! But it is still pretty darned funny.
ReplyDeleteI notice that Matt Zafino also always includes Rome on his map. There is a Rome, Oregon but I do believe Matt thinks that southeastern Oregon could be part of Italy. Al Roker knows where Rome is and even goes there and gives us weather forcasts of Corvallis, Oregon while he is there. Just some random Weather is great today but not 90 like MZ said it would be. High is only 79. Chalk up another loss to Matt.
ReplyDeleteDo I gather from the lack of updates that Matt Zafino has been right? I don't think so.......
ReplyDeleteMatt Bafoono ?
ReplyDeleteWhy does he balance the toe of his left shoe on the floor after every weather forecast ? Isn't that code for........