It's an election year, the Olympics are on, and crazy guys are climbing Trump Tower with suction cups attached to their hands and feet. With these and other "important" news stories (often told by animated GIF) taking up precious air time, you'll be hard-pressed to find significant news coverage of events that don't include shocking statements from political candidates or click-worthy media. Usually, however, weather is just the

NBC headline proclaiming tornado came "without warning" falls flat Last night I had the opportunity to talk to Dakota Smith and Tyler Jankoski on their Weather Junkies podcast . It was a fun experience, and the first time I've done anything like that in a long time. On the podcast, there was a well-timed question I felt I had an odd answer to. I was asked what I thought was the biggest problem involving social media and weather. The hip answer would

I was ready to hit publish on one post with the aim of beginning work on another. I quickly realized that perhaps the two were connected, so here is the joint post. The first blog was to add some historical perspective on a recent article published by The Denver Post regarding El Niño. The second was a bit of a reactionary agreement piece to this article in Forbes [http://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallsh

Full credit for this post goes to Matt Lanza (@mattlanza ) as he has put all the blood, sweat, and (mostly) tears into gathering these "Stupid El Niño Headlines". All we've done is gone ahead and put them together, in one unfortunate giant list. What was a (sort of) forgivable poor practice by some has now taken the internet by storm when a NASA scientist called this year's El Niño a 'Godzilla El Niño' [http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/13/432099022/s