More than 12 minutes of my local news broadcast is dedicated to the weather. The local weather broadcast is shown 5 minutes after the news comes on. The attention the local weather gets dwarfs any other news on the entire broadcast.
The weather report dedicates about 3 or 4 minutes to rehashing the weather that occurred that day. If it was hot, I am told it was hot. If it was raining, I am told it was raining. I was alive during the day, I know what the weather was like.
You can skip telling me what the weather was like already, that’s just not news. News is something I didn’t know, thus the term “News”, as in something new, not something old.
After I am pounded over the head with an extended recap of the weather that I lived through the previous 24 hours, it’s on to the “forecast”. What a joke. The NOAA puts out a forecast for every area and the weatherman passes it off as some type of mystical prediction.
And what about weather reporting accuracy rates in general . . . ? I’ll just leave that one for another complaint entirely unto itself.
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I’m with you! So little of a broadcast weather forecast is actually useful…what with fancy fly overs, etc. But I guess it’s entertainment.
You mentioned weather reporting accuracy…you might want to check out http://www.ForecastAdvisor.com which continually monitors weather forecast accuracy of the national providers (Accuweather, The Weather Channel, MyForecast.com, Intellicast, and the National Weather Service).
Eric Floehr on July 8th, 2007 at 11:14 am | Link