Aside from the fact that that, too, was my nick-name in high school
I think "A slug of precipitation" should be your new sig.
"tasmanian devil of precipitation."
I suspect this will be the case here tomorrow, when I will be dutifully standing outside protesting the war to no avail with a meager crowd of like-minded folk. We're supposed to get snow, then sleet, then rain, and the town will become an ice rink. I'm planning on wearing some fetching, brilliantly white golf shoes I inherited from a friend of my father's so that I'll be able to walk to the event without killing myself. 'Twill be a daring fashion statement.
Was that in your local paper?
Nope--it's from Weather Bug.
Question: Is excessive use of ellipses widespread in the world of forecasting, or is this just a problem that plagues Miami?
Judging from this (from the National Weather Service)--"Including The Cities Of... Ellsworth... Bar Harbor... Blue Hill... Eastport... Machias... Cherryfield"--I'd say it's a nationwide affliction.
