In case you haven't heard, the state is supposed to get a pretty heavy dose of precipitation this upcoming weekend. Unfortunately, weather forecasters don't know what that precipitation will be. It may be rain. It may be snow. It may be sleet. It may be ice. They really have no clue. Not to go all Gary England's Weather School on you, but the type of precipitation we receive depends on ever-fluctuating air and ground temperatures, and a few other weird factors, which can all be very difficult to predict this far out.
As a result, our local news media has been put in the awkward position of hyping a weather event they really can't predict, and we gets tweets this from Mike Morgan: