No, Jim Cantore did not call Mississippi a land mass

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.