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Covering weather
We’re a daily newspaper, but that doesn’t mean that everything you see in The Daily Sentinel or on GJSentinel.com was produced in the past 24 hours.
To the contrary, some things are produced far in advance of their publication. The New York Times and a lot of other national publications, for example, have scores of obituaries written for people who are very much alive. They’re ready to be pulled out and used when various luminaries depart this world.
We don’t do that around here, but we do try to anticipate events to the extent we can.
City Editor Tim Harty several weeks ago took note of the fact that we always write the same story every year on the first day we hit 100 degrees. He decided to do something different, so he assigned a reporter to find out everything he could about 100-degree days in Grand Junction, and compile it for use on the first 100-degree day of the year.
That little task was accomplished and it’s been sitting there ever since. It seems the first 100-degree day of the year is late in 2008. But it’s forecast to hit 100 this weekend. So we’re going to pull out the story that’s been sitting around and run it on Saturday, assuming that will be the hottest day of the year to date.
Among the things once can do to beat the heat, of course, is sit in an air-conditioned theater. And this also happens to be the opening weekend for the new Batman flick, the Dark Knight. So, the temperature story could segue nicely to our coverage of what is expected to be the biggest film of the summer. “Comics relief” is the headline News Editor Brian Harvey suggested. Not bad.
Comments
By Lynn
July 18, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this
No offense - but I’ll be happy if we never run that story this year!
By Robin
July 18, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this
To really escape the heat, I suggest a nice drive into the mountains. Perhaps you could stop in Telluride Saturday where Grand Junction’s own Riveter will be playing at the Last Dollar Saloon.