OK. So it’s not PC at all. It should be weatherperson, but seeing that these folks are wrong 90 percent of the time, I doubt our women readers will take much offense to this slip in etiquette.

From the people who brought us “cloudy with a chance of sun,” “sunny with a chance of clouds,” “rainy with a chance of sun,” “sunny with a chance of rain” and a seemingly endless combination of all four — we’ve now got “cloudy with a chance of snow” (see above).

Yes, only the weatherman can send people racing to tire stores, grocery stores and liquor stores with a single four-letter word.

For the record, that word is “snow.”

Thanks to Double Doppler, which I’m convinced is simply twins named Mike and Rich Doppler who stick their heads out their windows and call the weatherman with their “scientific report,” forecasts are more accurate than ever.

In fact, a local TV station, one that incidentally changed its big snow forecast last week from 5 inches to 1/10th of an inch in a matter of minutes touts itself as having the area’s “most accurate forecast.”

There’s gotta be a PR agent yucking it up over that one — or burning in hell, where the weather is reportedly “scalding with a chance of flames.”

Speaking of chances, the brothers Doppler, both of whom reportedly live in Kent, got it right the second go ‘round with predications that snow would blow into North Kitsap Thursday.

Those wily Doppler brothers are not without their resources after all.

Their second cousin on their mother’s side, Cletis, lives in Kingston and, true to his scientific know-how, stuck his head out the window. When something cold, wet and white — and that didn’t come out of a seagull’s posterior — struck his noggin, he called the Doppler’s official Kent headquarters, Bubba’s Tavern, to report the news.

The dynamic duo were a tad sluggish to call the local weather folk — Thursday morning being Bubba’s famous “$2 schooners of Rainier and all-you-can-eat hotdogs” and all. The Dopplers came through in a pinch though, and after rattling off predictions of how much snow areas would get, upgraded their “Winter Watch” to “Bubba’s Blizzard.”

There was a free round included. Yes, the Dopplers outdid themselves this time.

So with “Bubba” whitening its way across North Kitsap and the Dopplers catching a taxi home, I’d like to remind residents here that while even the weatherman gets it right from time to time, many drivers don’t.

Take it easy out there because while snow is fluffy and soft, cars, trees, rocks and power poles aren’t.

With that in mind, and with the sincere hope that everyone drives safe in the wake of this Northwest blizzard, I’d like to ask everyone to be smart on the roads this season and show Bubba and the weatherman that North Kitsap drivers know how to get from Point A to Point B in this stuff without crashing into Point C or destroying Point D.

JOE IRWIN

Editor