Joe Bastardi > Joel Myers (AccuWeather).
I go back to watching Joel on “Weather World” on PBS in the 70’s.
While we all laugh at Mann, PSU is still the best meteorological school in the country. I’ve lost faith/trust in Myers though and have gained respect for Joe Bastardi over the years. I’m sure I’m not the only PSU Alum or weather aficionado that feels the same way.
His weather forecasting abilities might be great, but the presentation could have been delivered in more chronological order and with fewer creative figures of speech.
As for AccuWeather, I used the NOAA, Weather Underground and others before. Accuweather appears to work better for my area on the Rockies. Over the past few years, the others tended to predict unrealistically high temperatures and low winds to the extent that they might be kowtowing to tourism interests.
I still plan to properly mount transducers for a one-wire station here when time allows. My place is in one of the colder, windier spots in the area. Most of the other stations within 50 miles or so are among trees on south- or east-facing, sheltered sides of peaks (bad tech.), and the thermometers are improperly housed (dark, overly sealed coverings that collect heat at over 9,000 feet from sunlight). I don’t do meteorology, but I do good technical work.