That is true. The weather in the Northeast commands the attention of the entire nation. Even when I lived in California, everybody was always talking about what it was doing back East. Now that I work in NYC, I see why. New York City is pretty much the center of the universe.
New York City is the center of the universe to the media.
I picked up on that in the early 70’s. I asked my parents why the media freaks out about cold and snow in NYC when the midwest was much colder. They just shrugged and said that the media is based there so the rest of the country doesn’t matter to them.