They just had to go there, didn't they?
Bullcrap. It’s 32 degrees here in Eastern Washington State
I would say its pretty damned dry now.
It's as if they have a cardboard bogeyman on a stick and they bring him out during a puppet show:
“Beware Punch, beware Judy, beware Brimstone. look out Prince Bumbo!
Global Warming is coming to steal your silver bananas!”
http://www.theonion.com/articles/local-puppet-ignores-repeated-audience-dragon-warn,1022/