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A split screen for heat? At night?

Published Tuesday, August 01, 2006 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

I don't get it. Watching Rock Star: Supernova and WBZ-TV (aka CBS4Boston) keeps going to a split screen for its "XTREME HEAT" coverage to show us...the Boston skyline at night? Just putting up the temperature should suffice, you would think. Unless. Unless...does heat show up better onscreen at night? A shot of the Pru doesn't remind me how hot it is as much as my lack of central A/C in my apartment does. Fans and window units only help so much. Maybe they should split the screen to a bunch of A/C units working overtime!