Musings from Brian J. Noggle: Is That Some Kind of Metaphor?

Is That Some Kind of Metaphor?

The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for the Milwaukee area today, cautioning residents - who sweated through highs in the mid-90s on Saturday - to prepare for even higher temperatures and humidity.

The advisory, the first of its kind this year, is expected to be in effect until Monday morning.

Darrin Hansing, a meteorologist with the weather service in Sullivan, advised residents to stay indoors and drink plenty of fluids.

"Heat exhaustion and heatstroke are very possible in these types of situations if people don't take the proper precautions," he said.

Little relief is in sight until the end of the week.

The weather service predicts a hot and humid day today, with highs in the upper 90s. Residents can expect 90-degree days until Thursday afternoon, said Peter Speicher, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Sullivan.

"There's a front coming in from the northwest," he said.

Milwaukee hit a high of 94 on Saturday.

Temperatures in Fond du Lac climbed to 95 and reached a high of 91 in Lone Rock. It was 97 in Sheboygan and 93 in Madison, Kenosha and Racine.

No, wait, somewhere around paragraph 24, after all the normal admonishments to turn on your air conditioners, you freaking northerners, and don't put the pets in the sweat lodge, we get the tie to the weekend air show:

The Milwaukee Fire Department also set up three sprinkler tents around the Veterans Park area for the TCF Bank Air Expo on Saturday, Lt. Tim Halbur said.

We then get a couple short paragraphs about the air show and how people coped with the French-killing temperatures at the air show. I guess that's where the Journal-Sentinel sent its photographers to cover the heat wave, or maybe it couldn't afford to take pictures of and write stories about both the heat wave and the air show, so the paper did its part in conserving energy by combining the two stories in a surprising and haphazard way.

- posted by Brian J. @ 6:17 PM