Jim Cantore wants everyone to know he definitely did not in any way call Mississippi a “land mass.” And neither did The Weather Channel.

I talked to him about it in 2015 for the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. But even though the story gets shared every time a tropical system nears, somehow the rumor persists.

Imagine that, a rumor persisting in 2018. But this all started back in 2012, in simpler times, when the air was filled with shouts of YOLO and “Call Me Maybe,” and well-liked celebrities included Honey Boo Boo and Louis C.K.

But now the world and the internet is a trust-no-one-and-nothing situation. Even knowyourmeme.com is wrong about the land mass origin story.

“Set the record straight,” Cantore told a Sun Herald photographer Tuesday as he was preparing for coverage of Tropical Storm Gordon from the Pascagoula beach.

So, again, here is the official record with additional information from my notes that didn’t fit into the original story.

My goal for the night was to experience the park as you, the reader, would. Who cares about officials thanking each other when there’s a roller coaster to ride! I got there at 5 p.m., as requested, and left at 10:30 as the last guests were leaving the park. I talked to lots of different people of all ages to get a sense of what their experience was like.

Little orange flags.

They start popping up along Mississippi beaches every year when the weather gets warm, but beachgoers and tourists might not know that they signal a warning: Do not enter.

They don’t mean the beach is closed, just that there’s so much bacteria in the water it might make you sick. And frequently a beach is under a bacteria advisory even though there are no flags out.

She lied.

For the first time, the woman who testified she was “scared to death” after Emmett Till grabbed and threatened her has admitted she made it up.

My parents have been married 40 years and they still maintain separate cranberry sauces. My father prefers a chunky, zesty relish that is on the drier side. My mother prefers a more traditional soupy sauce with whole berries.

And I prefer it straight out of the can with a spoon. Who says you can’t teach class?

Apparently I’ve discovered the perfect bait for coyotes.

I’m just glad they seem to prefer sweet basil over my cat.

In an effort to follow in his footsteps, the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs hosted an overnight excursion to the island Saturday and Sunday. Artists and non-artists alike were invited to draw inspiration from Anderson's muse the same way he did.

I tagged along with the group of about 15 people brave enough to voluntarily spend 36 hours on a desert island.

A sea of curious, lined faces stared out the floor-to-ceiling windows all day, watching the Mississippi Sound rise up around them.

Katrina was here, and there was nowhere to go, nothing to do but watch.

If Jim Cantore's headed to your town, take cover.

It's a reaction so ingrained in the psyches of residents on the hurricane-prone Coast that when he was announced grand marshal of a 2015 Mardi Gras parade in Biloxi, people were affronted.