Maryland is three states in many ways. The Eastern Shore, with Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean shorelines, is our vacation destination, seafood supplier, and grower of mighty fine fruits and vegetables. It's also where you go when you have a hankering for muskrat for dinner.
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Central Maryland is big cities, history, and pro sports for which Baltimore is world-famous.
Both of these regions share roughly the same climate: hot and humid all the time, except for when it's rainy or sleety or snowy or windy or hurricane-y. The days of White Christmases around here are memories served up on Turner Classic Movies.
Ah, but Western Maryland! The reason they call Maryland "America in Miniature" is because they have mountains out there and weather closer to Pittsburgh and Cleveland. In fact, they root for Pittsburgh teams in Western Maryland, which has always made Ravens-Steelers a matchup to watch.
The reason all this came to mind was that the other day, a non-meteorologist "weather personality" on the local TV was burbling about Friday's forecast, which included heavy snow for Western Maryland and a flake or two in the central part. This is a forecast we hear all winter long, and yet the glabrous weather guy feigned alarm about how it was going to be cold and windy.
He actually said this: "You might want to question your life" without apparent irony, as if we should all feel bad about living in a state where it gets cold as fall approaches.
The only thing to question about all this is why I watch television.
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