My son, like all kids, used to get all leaped up about snow in the forecast. He'd catch the forecast on the 10 pm news from Fox, but insist on staying up to catch the 11 news forecast on NBC because Al Roker was the weatherman. Al always hiballed the forecast: if one station predicted 4-6", Al would predict 6-8". "Al's a dude," my son exulted.

BTW, our unbroken string of great weather here in the High Desert came to an end. We had snow this morning (already melted), but Wednesday's high will be 33, low 13.