No, really. I think I said we'd have several inches of glow! Not snow! Silly goose! You're not buying that? So, here's the deal: Wednesday morning on FirstNews I said we could have 3-5 inches of snow, the bulk of which would be coming down during the morning hours. We started the show an hour early...4:00 a.m....just to be on top of the situation. Well, there wasn't any snow first thing Thursday morning and, as I write this, the totals look like they will end up closer to an inch or two around town, not the 3-5. Some weather folks take a lot of grief over an out-of-whack forecast like this one. Fortunately, by this time, most viewers realize that when I get a forecast right, it's like a blind pig finding an acorn. My dad used to say that. I never figured out why a pig wanted an acorn.

We get lots of information into the weather center. Sometimes you'll hear weather people say something about what the models say. In the case of this storm, the models didn't agree with each other. And, you simply don't want to get in the middle of a Christie Brinkley-Elle Macpherson argument. Of all the things that are hard to predict in the weather....high temperatures...rain...wind...what color socks I should wear. Snow is the toughest. The track of the storm only needs to drift a matter of miles, and the amounts change dramatically. The timing and track of this bunch of stuff was particularly vexing. I feel I should get extra points for using the word vexing.

Leading up to the holidays, when you forecast snow, many people get excited. If it doesn't happen there is regret. By the end of January, a snow-storm that wimps out is usually greeted more warmly. Emphasis on the warm. Still, I do know there are some out there who wore their pajamas inside out and backwards and slept with a spoon under their pillows...hoping it would lead to a snow day. And, that's just the teachers! My wife and kids were pretty sure they'd have a snow day Thursday based on my forecast. Since when did they start paying any attention to me? Maybe I should have taken advantage of that to ask that someone put gas in my car now and then!

Anyway, if you were hoping for snow and a snow day, I do apologize. Just remember, I have to go home today and face my children. Their eyes will be filled with anger and disappointment as they gaze upon me. The disappointment is always there but the anger hurts. Usually, it's disappointment and pity.