Meteorological humor

Surprisingly, every once in a while something funny comes across the weather wire. And instead of storing these things on my personal computer, I figured I would share the following with the blogger community (whomever you are!).

First up, a much too detailed Area Forecast Discussion from the Duluth, MN NWSFO on the morning of November 6th:

LAKE EFFECT SHOWERS MAY TAKE THEIR TIME IN MOISTENING THE
LOWER PARTS OF THE COLUMN...BUT ONCE THAT COLUMN IS 
MOISTENED...THE SHOWERS PERSIST EVEN AS MODELS TRY TO 
INFILTRATE DRY AIR AND END THEM. MORE IMPORTANT THAN 
MOISTURE...ANGULAR MOMENTUM IS CONSERVATIVE. IT TAKES 
QUITE A BIT OF ENERGY TO START AIR ROTATING ALONG AXES OF
STREAMWISE HORIZANTAL VORTICITY. BUT ONCE THAT ENERGY HAS 
BEEN INVESTED...THE ROTATING HORIZONTAL TUBES OF 
HORIZONTAL VORTICITY WILL MAINTAIN SHOWERS IN THEIR UPWARD 
MOTION AREAS. EVEN WHEN AN INVERSION LOWERS...THE SHOWERS 
CONTINUE BECAUSE THE INVERSION SEEMS TO BE PUSHED ALOFT 
MANY MANY METERS OVER THE UPWARD MOTION AREAS...
MAINTAINING ENOUGH DEPTH FOR SUBSTANTIAL SNOW PRODUCTION 
FROM EXISTING SHOWERS. WE HAVE FOUND THAT ONCE LAKE 
CONVECTION HAS BECOME ESTABLISHED...WARM ADVECTION AND AN 
ACCOMPANYING WIND SHIFT AT ALL LEVELS HAS TO PHYSICALLY 
PUSH THE SEEMINGLY IMMORTAL SHOWERS OFF THE SHORE WHERE 
THEIR EXISTANCE OR NON-EXISTANCE IS NO LONGER OUR PROBLEM. 
WE ANCPT COLD ADVECTION UNTIL ABOUT 10Z WEDNESDAY ACROSS 
THE GOGEBIC RANGE.  SO WE ARE TEMPORIZING BY EXTENDING THE 
WINTER STORM WARNING UNTIL 06Z WEDNESDAY.

THERE IS ANOTHER POINT BEARING UPON OUR REASON OF EXTENDING 
THE WINTER STORM WARNING WESTWARD ACROSS ASHLAND COUNTY. 
BESIDES REPORTS OF SEVEN INCHES OF FRESH SNOW AND VERY 
HEAVY SNOWFALL RATES SOUTH OF ASHLAND...RADAR SHOWS A 
STANDING WAVE DEVELOPING EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS THAT RUN 
DOWN ALONG THE SPINE OF THE BAYFIELD PENINSULA. SATELLITE 
IMAGERY CONCURS WITH THIS OBSERVATION. THE STANDING WAVE IS 
PROPAGATING TO THE SOUTHWEST...SOUTH OF THE BAYFIELD 
PENINSULA. SUBSTANTIAL MOISTURE HAS BECOME ENTRAINED INTO 
THIS PROPAGATING WAVE INTO AN UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT. THAT 
PROPAGATING CONVECTION IS THE SOURCE OF THE SNOWFALL REPORTS 
IN ASHLAND COUNTY...WELL SOUTH OF THE LAKESHORE. WITH LITTLE 
CHANGE IN COLUMN STRUCTURE...THERE IS NO REASON TO BELIEVE 
HAT THE STANDING WAVE WILL FALL APART ANYTIME SOON. OUR 
COMMENTS ABOUT ANGULAR MOMENTUM BEING CONSERVATIVE ALSO 
APPLY TO THE EXPECTED CONTINUED EXISTANCE OF THIS STANDING
WAVE.

We had a pretty good laugh about it at work. Not only because it is the most detailed and technical discussion any of us had seen for a lake-effect event, but also because some of this, we had no clue what to make of. Personally, my favorite part was the mention of the "seemingly immortal showers." That's just funny.

Secondly, a rather humorous (obviously edited!) forecast map:



A friend of mine had this in his Facebook profile. Drizzle, that makes sense, but the rest? Quite the laugh!