I recently did a personal, although fairly unscientific, study of the local news reporting of the daily temperature. Each day I noted the temperature reported by AccuWeather, NOAA, and weather.com. I then noted the temperature reported by the local news station. In the spring and summer, they always reported the highest number correspondingly reported by one of the 3 weather services. The 3 services rarely reported the same number between themselves, but the local news always found the highest one to report. Likewise, in the winter, the coldest number was always reported.
Does anyone think they are trying to sensationalize everything? They also picked the highest heat index number, even if it didn’t go with the temperature reported by the service they picked for the day.
Last winter, I started noticing that the National Weather Service, the regional TV stations etc. constantly reported our local temperatures as being a minimum of 5 degrees F, quite often 10 degrees warmer than reality. And they also vastly under-reported snowfalls.... Like we would get 6 inches, they would report 1/4 inch. Eight inches would be reported as two inches, etc.
Even accounting for variations in local micro-climates they were so far off that I could only assume they were trying to help AlGore with his schemes