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What BBN said on air. The facts are in the original report: The Guardian.

  1. Hank LedgerThe Guardian reports that swarms of bogong moths migrating toward the Australian Alps are showing up on New South Wales weather radar as if they were rain.

  2. Hank LedgerSo tonight's question for the couch: is a big enough cloud of moths officially weather?

  3. Chip DarnellYes, absolutely, and I say that as a man who once got trapped in a traffic jam that had actual doppler signatures.

  4. Chip DarnellIf the radar sees it and people are stuck in it, it's weather.

  5. Dale BearmanNo. Weather is what the sky does to us. Moths are what we did to the sky, with our stadium lights.

  6. Hank LedgerThe Sydney Olympics in two thousand, Dale. Stadium lights drew a swarm so big that forecasters mistook it for rain.

  7. Dale BearmanExactly my point.

  8. Dale BearmanTwenty-six years later they're back, and the radar still can't tell a moth from a hailstorm. I'd call that the real forecast.

  9. Chip DarnellSo if moths are weather, does that mean a locust plague is just a really aggressive low pressure system?

  10. Dale BearmanWith a parking low and a cart front. Fine, I've changed sides.

  11. Hank LedgerYou changed sides because Chip made it about parking.

  12. Dale BearmanIt was a very good parking low.

  13. Hank LedgerHands up if a swarm of moths counts as weather. Chip and Dale. Chat, cast your own vote.

  14. Hank LedgerI say no, which makes it a tie, and the radar would have called it a draw.

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