Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for August 25, 2013

At first glance I thought there’d been a coloring error.

VERY nice job on showing the sky colorings for a building rain storm…

Weather.com radar map perhaps.

I think the color person got it wrong. To be a representation of weather radar, the gray would have to be green…..Rain is green…..

I thought it was a fire. I guess I have a twisted sense of humor.

I also thought it was a fire…. first a big explosion,represented by the pale yellow puff…. then houses catching fire, and black smoke…

And Janis walking on obliviously…and Arlo lying to her so she wouldn’t notice the fires….

And me going “huh?” till I read the comments.

Thanks, you guys!

Maybe I would have gotten it faster were the roles reversed….it’s Janis who constantly checks her smartphone weather apps.

How interesting! How funny! What a comic!And the comments! Intelligence combined with humor!OMG, I think I can’t stand it! I think I go back to bed!What a bore this once great strip became.

“You don’t need a weathermanTo know which way the wind blows…”

fusilierJames 2:24

We see a lot of strips about radar weather colors it seems to me.

not sure what town this strip is supposed to be about, but at first I thought it was about those fires in California…but then I read the comic and realized it was a copy of the radar screen. Good one.

Yeah, I think it is fire. Could be the start of a series if this Sunday leads into the dailies but that is usually unlikely.

I’m not familiar with wildifires in this part of the country.

looks more like the apocalypse

I thought it looked like forest fires. It’s what I get for living in the West.

Yep, it sure looks like rain. You don’t need an app to see weather radar, it’s on TV and internet. What guy doesn’t watch during storm events?

Dreamer! I would never leave a column where you, Varnes, and doublepaw let us participate in your intellectual and spiritual greatness.. So much fun, so much wit, so much lucidity, so much clarity! I almost can’t bear the tension, the suspense!Yawn!Sorry, I fall aslepp again.

Sometimes a comic strip is just a comic strip.

From my past years in Wisconsin, I’ve learned to distinguish on the radar between green rain and white snow and pink icy mix and AAAAA red or purple stormy! (Classic map colors)Going up there on Wednesday, and right now it’s 89, feels like 92. (Here in St. Pete, it’s 86, feels like 95.)

In the tornado belt if the sky turns a shade of green, that indicates it’s possible a tornado is in the air.

They have to be referring to how most folks use online radar to see the weather instead of looking at the actual sky.

Nope. Fire. definitely fire. Wonder why they can’t smell it?

That darkening graying effect is exactly how the sky looks in an area near a wildfire. We could smell the Yosemite-area fire earlier in the week when the wind was blowing this way. Hoping hard for rain.

Why shouldn’t a comic strip sky look like The Weather Channel digital radar map? After all, TWC is often the most (unintentionally) hilarious thing on TV.

Hey, doublepaw, what the hell is Schrats problem?…..Maple Lake? Anyway, I’m glad he appreciates our intellectual and spiritual greatness

So much fun, so much wit, so much lucidity, so much clarity!

schrat, I hope you have pleasant dreams of Paw Paw Paw people…..

I’m glad I’m not the only one that thought it was an explosion followed by fire. But knowing Arlo’s obsession with the weather channel it does make more sense now. :)

So vague!

Seen yellow, driving East thru Iowa with windows down, suddenly the windshield was fully clouded over; think we just dodged a tornado.