WHAT?! National Weather Service Now Including Tacos in Minnesota Forecast

When Mother Nature throws one storm after another at Minnesota, you can either get angry and cry about it or you can find a way to laugh and smile.  The US National Weather Service in the Twin Cities has embraced the latter and helped make thousands laugh the other day with a hilarious post about tacos.  Yes, they actually wrote about tacos. 🌮

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Did You See The Hilarious Post About Tacos By The US National Weather Service in the Twin Cities?

I love thunderstorms and tornadoes!  I grew up in Iowa so we would stand outside just to watch the clouds and I know, that type of weather is nasty and dangerous.  But on my bucket list is to chase a tornado.  My sister and brother-in-law are storm chasers and were some who caught some incredible photos of the tornadoes that hit Omaha, Nebraska and destroyed a small town in Iowa earlier this year.

No matter how much I love the storms, I always have to stop and think about what "Watch" and "Warning" means.  It confuses me and I wish that they picked two words that didn't start with the letter "w".

I think the National Weather Service Twin Cities felt my concerns because the other day, they published a great tutorial about the difference between "Watch" and "Warning" with the help of tacos.

You may have seen graphics using tacos to illustrate the difference between a watch and a warning (Taco Watch: we have ingredients for tacos; Taco Warning: tacos are made and we're having tacos right now).

Now That It Is Explained In Terms We All Understand, Tacos, the National Weather Service Showed How These Terms Are Used For Weather

We'll use that analogy to describe our current situation. We have the ingredients in place for really hot, spicy tacos (very strong storms), but the ingredients are in really tight packaging and it's hard to get them open (there's a strong cap in place). We're waiting to see if someone strong enough can come along to open the packaging (upward motion strong enough to break the cap).

 

In other words, the ingredients are in place for very strong storms this evening, but it's unknown if storms will be able to develop at all. If they do, they could be severe with very strong winds and possibly tornadoes, along with additional flooding.

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And now I feel like I need to find a food truck with tacos. 🌮