John Wheeler: A meteorologist vents at silly social media comments

FARGO — Social media has develop into a spot the place folks provide as much as anybody their considered the second. Typically sufficient, these ideas will not be thought by and are normally only a response to one thing that has simply occurred or one thing simply stated. Understanding that, it’s nonetheless simple to make mild of all of the social media feedback this week concerning the March 1 snowstorm. Most feedback have been alongside the strains of, “March? What the?” and normally included an image of the snow.

After all, social media can also be a venue the place folks can vent their frustrations with life, and that’s little question what quite a lot of this was. Nonetheless, the meteorologist right here stored desirous to troll all these posts with the truth that the common excessive remains to be within the 20s and snow in early March will not be in in the slightest degree uncommon. What would have been bizarre would have been a March 1 with balmy temperatures and a day thundershower.

John Wheeler is Chief Meteorologist for WDAY, a place he has had since Could of 1985. Wheeler grew up within the South, in Louisiana and Alabama, and cites his household’s transfer to the Midwest as necessary to creating his fascination with climate and local weather. Wheeler lived in Wisconsin and Iowa as a young person. He attended Iowa State College and achieved a B.S. diploma in Meteorology in 1984. Wheeler labored a few 12 months at WOI-TV in central Iowa earlier than shifting to Fargo and WDAY..