Keller @ Large: WBZ-TV Weather Team Nailed Winter Forecast
BOSTON (CBS) - I've got a confession to make and I'm not ashamed of it.
I love WBZ-TV's weather team because everything they predicted about this winter has so far been right on the money.
They said it would be a relatively mild winter and it has been.
They said that while we would get storms, they'd tend to be mixed-precipitation events that wouldn't bury us under ten feet of snow and ice, and that's exactly what has happened.
And they said whatever accumulation we did get wouldn't hang around forever like last winter, and again they were right.
I double-checked with chief meteorologist Eric Fisher Thursday night, and he assured me that the nasty shot of cold we're getting the next few days will be temporary, followed by a nice warm up, and that while we're due for a fair amount of storm activity the rest of the month, it should follow the pattern.
And we all know from experience that once we get to March, nothing that happens will last very long.
I'm sure I speak for many of us when I say that this has been akin to being called into the boss's office, expecting the worst, only to be told you're getting a promotion and a raise.
Or like getting set up on a blind date by your aunt, fearing a nightmare, and in walks the person of your dreams.
We needed this winter to be lenient, needed it badly. As edgy as we New Englanders always are, I was afraid we'd all go over the edge if this had turned out to be another ice-dam-filled snowpocalypse.
So, thank you Eric Fisher, Danielle Niles, Barry Burbank, Pamela Gardner and executive producer Terry Eliasen. I love you all. At least, until next winter.
