I realize our weather reporters need to shake things up a bit by using different terms for weather, but snow banding, monsoonal, and atmospheric river sound like names in a pot dispensary or a Hollywood day care. Lately our weatherman is using the term "brutal", as if the weather really wants to hurt us. I think we have carried anthropomorphizing a little too far. What he actually means is temperatures near or sub zero. Those terms would do nicely, or even old fashioned "frigid" would work. It is bad enough that college educated meteorologists ascribe weather to Mother Nature, without implying criminal intent on her part.
Another term for brutal is inhuman, but weather is more un-human in that we do not control it. They can hold COP climate conferences to infinity and beyond, but these are more like field trips for the Doomsday Club. Government representatives get paid to travel internationally, meet in conference facilities, stay in hotels, and eat meals, all while using massive amounts of fossil fuel energy, so that they can decide no one else should. Unless they can stop volcanoes from spouting off, wildfires from burning and all the other ways Mother Nature produces CO2, there is little point in holding a COP.
The ones I feel sorry for are the sportscasters. There are only so many synonyms for the word won. Sports reporting must be brutal.
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