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Video still of WMAR-TV meteorologist Mike Masco presenting his forecast for 775 degree day in Baltimore (© WMAR-TV via Newscaststudio, http://aka.ms/775)

TV news station predicts 775-degree weather

6/21/2012

While most of America's Northeast is feeling the serious heat of summer, one Baltimore news broadcast believed that things would get so hot, residents would think they'd landed in Hades. The prediction for Wednesday was that temperatures could reach an astounding 775 degrees (just bake those cookies on the porch, folks). This news came from the same station that hilariously notes on its website a "2-degree guarantee:" when it "comes to accuracy, no meteorologists in Baltimore beat the ABC2News weather team." Um, obviously, somebody royally screwed up.

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