YEARS ago, my mom got so frustrated with my dad tuning in/watching the weather on TV maybe every hour (could have been every 30 minutes - ), every day, every year, that she finally said with MUCH annoyance:
‘Why don’t you step outside and see - ???’
I bet she said this more than once -
My dad used to go outside and see. He would stand on our covered porch next to a metal post...one day lightening hit the post next to him and jumped to the next one on the other side of him, lucky he was not fried; he did get a jolt as did my dog that was at his side. Maybe it was a good thing your dad was trying to find out on TV.