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Am I the only one that gets rather annoyed when weather-people editorialize the weather they are attempting to predict?
For example, there is this really pasty white weather girl that does the news on one of the local channels. Everytime we are due for a spell of cold weather, this chump says something like, "Good news, folks, it's finally going to cool off."
Excuse me. Some of us LOVE hot weather and despise cold. I don't need some mope giving me their opinion on their half-cocked predictions.
Is this stuff really selling? I rarely watch local news and this is primarily the reason. Two segments of the 35 minutes of evening news are dedicated to weather. What makes that worse is the fact that the weather people spend their time telling you whether or not they are happy about what is inevitable and beyond their control.
For example, there is this really pasty white weather girl that does the news on one of the local channels. Everytime we are due for a spell of cold weather, this chump says something like, "Good news, folks, it's finally going to cool off."
Excuse me. Some of us LOVE hot weather and despise cold. I don't need some mope giving me their opinion on their half-cocked predictions.
Is this stuff really selling? I rarely watch local news and this is primarily the reason. Two segments of the 35 minutes of evening news are dedicated to weather. What makes that worse is the fact that the weather people spend their time telling you whether or not they are happy about what is inevitable and beyond their control.
I have personally always felt that TV meteorologists were among the most superfluous people on the face of the planet. You wanna report the weather, show me a damned map. Add a voice-over, if you must. But, please: I do not need to see some geek standing in front of a blue screen looking into an off-camera monitor, waving their arms about, and desperately imagining themselves some kind of "personality". Frankly, I'd rather watch Rush Limbaugh pleasuring himself on a webcam. Well... almost.
As to the editorializing, it's totally inappropriate. Weather prediction is subjective enough as it is. I don't need anyone telling me the weather is "finally" doing anything - and I definitely don't need some balding, overweight weather-dork talking about "breaking out the speedos". Cut to the pointless footage of headlights moving along the interstate now!
As to the editorializing, it's totally inappropriate. Weather prediction is subjective enough as it is. I don't need anyone telling me the weather is "finally" doing anything - and I definitely don't need some balding, overweight weather-dork talking about "breaking out the speedos". Cut to the pointless footage of headlights moving along the interstate now!
I agree that they shouldn't tell us how we should feel about the weather.
Really, though, we are in a small market, so the meteoroligists aren't that good. They're stuck to fill two whole segments with weather, and there's only so much you can say before you're just killing time and making stuff up.
Another good example of this occurs every year in Chicago. It gets bitter cold, and the news reports it like it has never happened before. HELLO? This is Chicago. It is cold in the winter. You'd think people would pick up on that.
I get my weather from AccuWeather, as they are pretty good for about 48 hours out.
Other than that, I like going directly to radar and computer models for my weather, and make my own predictions. I do this a lot during hurricane season. I'm accurate on predicting hurricane paths just as much as the experts -- I have only successfully successfully predicted the path of one tropical storm. All the "experts" had it hitting Texas, and I put it in the Yucatan about two days out. I nailed it and they didn't!
But, despite my prediction of where I thought it would hit, I didn't go around telling people it was going to be a good thing when it hit.
But anyways, the weather segment is useless if you have a computer.
Mike
Really, though, we are in a small market, so the meteoroligists aren't that good. They're stuck to fill two whole segments with weather, and there's only so much you can say before you're just killing time and making stuff up.
Another good example of this occurs every year in Chicago. It gets bitter cold, and the news reports it like it has never happened before. HELLO? This is Chicago. It is cold in the winter. You'd think people would pick up on that.
I get my weather from AccuWeather, as they are pretty good for about 48 hours out.
Other than that, I like going directly to radar and computer models for my weather, and make my own predictions. I do this a lot during hurricane season. I'm accurate on predicting hurricane paths just as much as the experts -- I have only successfully successfully predicted the path of one tropical storm. All the "experts" had it hitting Texas, and I put it in the Yucatan about two days out. I nailed it and they didn't!
But, despite my prediction of where I thought it would hit, I didn't go around telling people it was going to be a good thing when it hit.
But anyways, the weather segment is useless if you have a computer.
Mike
I live in a place in which the weather is well, er - uh - sorta of non-news. Like today it's 80 degrees out and not a cloud in the sky. The downside of this is that the weather people have 15 minutes to fill with nothing (ho hum) to say.
But I did hear this report early one morning:
"The sun rose this morning at 5:55am and will continue to do so."
(no, I am not kidding)
But I did hear this report early one morning:
"The sun rose this morning at 5:55am and will continue to do so."
(no, I am not kidding)
I personally find it amusing to watch competing TV stations trying to outdo each other with their weather data collecting systems.
I love the double doppler 5000, or the insta-accu-weather radar storm tracker system.
Jeez, you think we could track storm patterns on Saturn with these things.
I love the double doppler 5000, or the insta-accu-weather radar storm tracker system.
Jeez, you think we could track storm patterns on Saturn with these things.
QUOTE(Wertz @ Jan 15 2003, 05:55 AM)
Frankly, I'd rather watch Rush Limbaugh pleasuring himself on a webcam. Well... almost.
What else can I say on this? Yeah, local weather is annoying, but have you checked the Weather Channel lately? They've built an entire 24 hour network around such commentary. They should really be required to have a disclaimer stating that, "Viewing for more than 10 minutes at a time has been shown by the state of California to cause catatonia in laboratory animals."
I think I'll just keep catching the weather online, in text only format, and they can save the Super-Mega-Ultra-Combination-Doppler/Sattelite-Radar-WeatherScope for somebody who cares enough to sit through their awful droning.
I love when the weathermen/ladies are wrong. There has been several times this winter when they have said Chicago will be hit by a major snow storm and we don't get anymore than a dusting. I love how they explained that it went either to central Illinois or Indiana because of the Lake effect. Hello! Why do they have Doppler? It makes them look like idiots. I would love a job like that. Be wrong more than 50 % of the time and still have a job and get paid I am sure pretty good money to be wrong. Oh I am in the wrong career! 
Mountain weather is more exciting than most. You can have your own personal cloud here beating the dickens out of you, while someone on the other side of the hill has sunshine. Watching the stuff from the flatlands roll in off the foothills is pretty interesting. Lots of lightening in the spring, lots of rainbows. Hailstorms, tornados, 80mph+ winds, freaky massive storms that bring down thousands of acres of trees.
The weather people here are always having anxiety attacks.
The weather people here are always having anxiety attacks.
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