The Weather Channel has been around a long time now. What does everyone think of it, and the folks on it? When we had cable, Ladycub and I were devotees. I still see it at work.

I can live without Storm Stories. Jim Cantore isn't that good at melodrama. (He's a pompous boob, according to someone I know who's met him.)

I've always liked the background music during the local forecasts. Even the Oh.My.Heck. music they play during hurricanes.

Personalities:

Jeanetta Jones has eyes to die for.

Dave Schwartz tries in his own way to be the Bob Costas of weather, making EVerything sound like a crisis. It doesn't work. (No, I don't like Costas either.)

Vivian Brown has come a long way from making every forecast sound like an intro to a song at a smooth jazz station.

If it's not Cantore, it's Mike Seidel whom you don't want to see doing a standup in your neighborhood.

I miss the late hurricane expert John Hope, and I bet he would have loved covering this past hurricane season.

It also seemed for a while, the WC was where female meteorolgists went to become preggers. What's in the water? And why hasn't it affected Cantore yet?

Here are some funny WC videos (not so much the Lewis Black ones, but the last six). Cantore has the hiccups, Sharon Resultan tries to turn the WC into a call-in show, and snow wreaks havoc with some standups. RealPlayer may be required.

"Give me liberty . . . or a bran muffin!" --Colin Mochrie, "Whose Line"