The less our culture need to rely on the daily weather forecast to earn a living, the more obsessed we seem to get. And the Weather Channel is there to guide us along, continuing to find new ways to fetishize the forecasting and reporting of weather conditions. (Weather being different from the broader issues of climate and climate change, which not enough people are worrying about).

Some of the On-Air Personalities have video blogs on the site, and for reasons I can’t remember Husband and I watched some of them last night. This is how we learned that, in addition to learning more about weather you can be treated to hungover recitations of mojito recipes (Kate’s New Year’s vblog, which I can’t find today to link it, but I swear it’s there somewhere). Since I can’t find the clip I want, here’s Mike Siedel Gobbles Meat, which does include a few seconds about making margaritas in a lawnmower/blender and a lot of gratuitous meat footage.

[update – I couldn’t find Kate’s vblog because she’s an Accuweather Personality, not a Weather Channel Personality. It’s entry 132, if you need a new mango mojito recipe.]

Both Accuweather and Weather Channel have bloopers on their sites. A little bit goes a long way and they seem to add to the collection constantly so I suppose if you’re so inclined you can probably spend hours watching this stuff. I think it’s just nice to know that the editors have a healthy outlet for their inevitable over-caffeination and aggression.