Weather warnings gone nuts

[Joseph S]

What is WTMJ doing? They're running warning scrolls  for winds and thunderstorms due in an hour ago by their own timestamping.

Speaking of over the top, please WDJT drop the sad promo, "We bring you news first" consisting entirely  of national and natural disasters. You're driving some of us further away from your "news" programming.

[Tom Snyder]

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed dark and apocalyptic tone of that promo... but the mantra of the news media is "if it bleeds... it leads." Because that's what people tune in to see...

[The Law]

"The bubble headed bleach blonde, comes on at five....."

Local news is all the same all round the country

"She can tell you about a plane crash with a gleam in her eye"

This suprises me not.

No offense to media types on the forum, but who decides what stories, teasers, etc. go on air?  "Are your children at risk?...tonight at 10"  "Will things be warming up?....well, I'm not going to tell you, instead, I'll smile and tease you and attempt to make you think "omigod, mus....watch....channel "n"" and then lure you in with super dopplar radar sat 3d zoom 4000"

Dirty laundry

/end rant

[oz]

The amount of time and money spent on "predicting" the weather is ridiculous. And the seven-day forecast is probably wrong more than half the time. Sunday's gorgeous weather (except for the one-hour thunderstorm) wasn't predicted by anyone around here, even on Saturday night.

[The Law]

right!

They should advertise correctly and call it "Weather guessing"

Ok, sorry to the meteorologists out there.  It is a mixture of art and science.  I am impressed, actually, how you guess the temperature for the day.  Though, I am suspect at some of the apparant carnival type ranges - "lows in the 50s, highs in the 70s"

If a carnie says I can guess your age within 5 years - that still gives him a 10 year range to work with

[Joseph S]

That awful commercial just ran again on CBS for the first time in awhile. I guess they brought it out for 9/11 or Hurrican Ivan. :mad: