Subtle propaganda and Global Warming?

Me or them?  Only the Shadow knows!

I know, I know.  This is a poor way to build a case since it relies on you taking my word about things.  But, take my word or not, it's up to you.

I noticed something on our local news station that we watch before getting on with the day.  Back in August, when temperatures dropped and we were wearing jackets in the dog days of summer, the weather forecasters (and not just one) kept saying something.  They kept saying it was 'seasonably cool'.  What did that mean?  It wasn't seasonably anything.  It was unseasonably cool.  The first time they said it, I thought it was a mistake, a verbal slip.  But they kept saying it, despite the fact that we were getting close to the high 30s at night, when most of the time the temperatures at night should be close to double that (the average temps, BTW, for that time of year are 84 high and 63 low, over 20 degrees higher than it was).  How is that seasonable anything?  It was fall temperatures when it's usually the peak of summer heat. 

Now, today, it's getting close to the 90s.  That's hot for a first day of Autumn, but not unprecedented.  Septembers are often all over the place here in Ohio.  That's one of the ways we earn a reputation for having crazy weather.  Often September will have terrible heat waves mixed with plunges in temperature.  So a hot day on the first of Autumn, while not common, is also not unheard of.

And yet, for two days, we've heard them say 'it's not like fall weather', or 'hot for the first day of autumn', or this morning 'temperatures more like summer than fall.'  OK, that's true.  But notice the difference. Notice how, when August really was unusually cool, it was mentioned as 'seasonally cool', when it was nothing of the kind.  Almost as if it was no big deal.  But when it is hot today, which isn't uncommon, they spend two days or so emphasizing just how hot it is, how it's really summer and not fall and all that.

Why?  I don't know.  I just noticed the trend.  I've seen it before.  I've mentioned the tendency of them to say things like 'historic flooding' when, while linguistically accurate, presents the notion that something that has never happened before just happened.  Sure, anything like that could be historic.  But it's hardly the first, which some could see as being implied.  Likewise, speaking of weather events as 'near record', even if it isn't, can also paint a different mental picture for viewers. 

That last one happened back in July.  This summer, like two of the previous three, was rather mild.  After some years of extreme heat, things have become more bearable.  Which is nice, I'll admit.  But this year it was especially cool.  We had only a few days over 90, and the days above 80 were fewer than normal.  Nonetheless, one of the forecasters in July said that the day in question  was going to be 86, near record for the day.  Problem?  According to him on the same forecast, the record for that day was 92.  A day that is 6 degrees away from the record when it's usually around the 80s anyway is not near a record.  It's not even close.  Why would he say that?

No clue.  You can think I'm just lying, and that's certainly a recourse for MMGW fans.  But assuming I'm not making it up because I'm just a lying type, think on that.  Why the differences?  Why when it's hotter than the season suggests is it emphasized?  Why do they say almost a record when it's not even close?  And when it's noticeably colder than normal, why do they downplay it with a near false declaration that it's 'seasonably cool' when it's no such thing?

For me, the reason is obvious.  But I'm willing to listen to explanations.