local news

It's a ritual of mine to watch the local forecast before I fall asleep at night. There are two channels that have news at 10:00 p.m.; channel 29 (Fox) and channel 17 (NBC 10 does their news). Every night they give a teaser for the weather at the beginning of the program. The weather person will come on and say something like, "The temperature right now is 57 degrees. It was a bit cool and rained in some places today. More Earthwatch forecast coming up."

Then they do a bunch of stories and a few rounds of ads until the meteorologist comes back to give the weather that everyone cares about -- the forecast, fore meaning in the future, what is to come. I hate how the news, especially the weather, acts like it's a drama instead of the news. Why do we have to wait to hear what the weather is going to be. Just tell us at the beginning instead of informing us what the weather is outside our windows at that very moment.