National Weather Service in Mount Holly finds Twitter wants more snow in Philadelphia area
The weather service polled its Twitter followers to find out if they want more snow around here. A majority of respondents said yes.
Snow evidently has quite a loyal following in the Philadelphia, at least according to a wholly unscientific poll conducted by the National Weather Service Office in Mount Holly.
It started Friday morning when a forecaster tweeted about the coming warmth next week that included the phrase, “winter has decided to give us a break so far this year (no editorializing, but yay!.”
Some of the commenters objected, saying, What’s with the “yay?”
The weather service followed up with a tweet asking people to choose “teamsnow” or “teamnosnow” and cast their ballots
Breakdowns by party affiliation, ethnicity, location, or religious affiliation were unavailable, but in a turnout that would rival that of a Philadelphia municipal primary, among 889 votes cast, teamsnow took 61%.
Explaining snow’s resounding victory, weather service meteorologist turned political analyst Dean Iovino surmised, “a lot of disappointed people out there.”
“There’s a place for people who don’t like snow — Florida,” tweeted one respondent.
“If we had to base our vote on how people drive in this weather, it’d be 100%,” countered a dissenter.
Perhaps other no-snow would-be voters had better things to do or are suffering from survey burnout, but it’s not like they were out shoveling.