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Onshore, Offshore, and Out of Her Mind...
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From the Associated Press...
Professor faces jail if KNBC weatherman harassed
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities say a college professor on a crusade to change the way a Los Angeles weatherman uses terminology has to leave him alone or face six months in jail.
Melanie Patton Renfrew, a Harbor College teacher, wants KNBC-TV's Fritz Coleman to change references to onshore and offshore winds.
She says the terms are confusing because people don't know which are coming and which are going.
Burbank-based KNBC obtained a restraining order in March 2008 after calling her behavior bizarre and saying Coleman feared for his safety.
Do the terms onshore and offshore confuse you?
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Jason Samenow
| September 4, 2009; 10:30 AM ET
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Posted by: --sg | September 4, 2009 5:43 PM | Report abuse
Leeward winds, west winds, westward winds, onshore winds...
While I wouldn't stalk anyone over it, I can see how wind direction terminology can be confusing. I believe a west wind is a wind from the west, whereas a westward wind is a wind from the east? I would guess that offshore wind would be a wind coming off the sea...
Off topic, I preferred the old blog format where the same link takes you to both the comments and the whole article.
Posted by: spgass1 | September 4, 2009 10:47 PM | Report abuse
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Well, you know...the terms didn't confuse me until you made me think about it.