50 Shades of Red
SkyTracker Weather is a production of the Canadian Global Television Network. Years ago, the late Peter Trueman, who seemed to live up to his last name, is best known for his anchoring of Global’s evening newscast. At the end of each broadcast, he would produce commentary with a related video on some appealing and endearing aspect of life and conclude with, "That is not news. But that, too, is reality".
The following image was sent to me by a friend from British Columbia. It illustrates two images of temperatures in Canada, generated and broadcast with related narration by SkyTracker. The images are 4 years and 17 days apart. The first is in 2018 and the second in 2022. There are some temperature variances for the locations shown, but most are not significant or considerable. The hotspot in the 2018 map appears to be Regina, Saskatchewan at 29°C (84.2°F) while in 2022, Regina’s temperature was a cooler 22°C (71.6°F).
However, notice the coloring in both images. The second map, in 2022, which is very reddish in color is typically indicative of very hot weather and heat waves – but, yet note the temperatures. Now I cannot independently verify the accuracy of these images, but I suspect they are authentic since most of the legacy media loves to endorse progressive ideologies.
Furthermore, television’s meteorological personnel cannot be satisfied with standard weather terminology, so they fabricate scarier names for every storm, or adverse weather event imaginable and use words like:
· bomb cyclone
· weather bomb
· thundersnow
· snowmaggedon
· polar vortex
· atmospheric rivers
· heat dome
That is life in the deceit and exaggeration lane - that is not news. But that, too, is reality.