Posted on 01/12/2014 1:06:53 PM PST by UB355
TWC is to weather as MTV is to music.
Republican Presidential Primaries?
Yeah not the best, not the best location and I post it to TWC owned WeatherUnderground.com. Even so it's really useful. It loads my webcam, records both stills and video and archives that as well as wx data.
You know what would end this whole silly thing? Congress coming back and saying ‘Yes, the Weather Channel is a critical need, and therefore is forbidden from charging any fee to Direct TV or any cable operator, nor permitted to carry any commercials which might endanger citizens by denying them constant weather coverage.’
How long until Weather Channel withdraws its request? Ten seconds?
Good Grief..... Just the thought!
I prefer my local weather folks (WSET in Lynchburg) to the Weather Channel. WSET is more accurate.
Another corporation looking for a bail-out or favor from the all-powerful government.
Its what our progressive, crony-capitalist system is all about.
I never watch them either.
then use the internet- there are other sites that can be accessed. directtv and the weatherchannel should not doing this, seems like once a year some channel is always threatened to be let go on at least one satellite or cable provider.
If the weather channel names each individual cloud in the atmosphere, I might consider them useful.
That and severe dyslexai,.....
Who needs thee Weather Channel? Bring back the 24-hour color radar feed with the NOAA voiceover guy who sounds like he’s reading the South Plains ag report. That guy was more useful than all of the blow-dried personalities of questionable sexual orientation over at TWC.
‘Skywarn.org has chapters throughout the country. These are the weather spotters and you can listen to their reports on local radio frequencies.’
I am one of the net control operators for the SKYWARN group in Central Texas. Our ‘spotters’ have direct communications with the NWS in Fort Worth. I usually start preparing for a major event several hours ahead of time and the Weather Channel USED to be one of my sources. Since NBC took it over, it is a waste of time to even check it since it usually has some rerun of a weather related video running during tornado outbreaks.
The good folks have mostly gone elsewhere and have been replaced with politically correct personalities. I don’t know how Jim Cantore has survived, he is married and has kids and also is a damn good OCM...
We, wife and I, used to have the Weather Channel on as background noise 24/7. It has been replaced by Fox News until Bill O’Riley comes on.(I try to remember to turn it back on when Megan comes on.)
Also all of the other news channels usual have stand-in-the-wind and pseudo-yell personalities on during major events and they are more attractive...
I had not heard of the other weather source on DTV...
BTW, if you are in a storm prone area of the country, get you a scanner and/or a Weather Radio (I recommend a Midland WR-300, available at most outdoor related merchants and Amazon.com: I am adding two more to my outpost.)
You can check with a local amateur radio operator or TV station to find out where the SKYWARN nets are being run.
As an aside ALL USA WEATHER DATA STARTS WITH THE NWS. The networks, TV and radio stations just massage the data and try to make it more ‘exciting’.
With a weather radio, you get the latest info from the NWS. We, the SKYWARN participants, furnish ‘ground truth’ and validation to what they see with their tools. (by the time a radar beam hits a reflector at 75 miles it is 8000 feet above the ground, most tornadic activity is at less than two thousand feet: our eyes can see what the radar can’t.)
For me, knowing that last week it was -8 in Indy, 0 in Columbus, or 29 in Orlando at the time I checked, it was close enough.
skywarn, isn’t that the computer system in the terminator movies?
Are they better then storm Doppler 3 locally?
I have no idea. I use to love the radar channel, nothing but local weather radar. Awsome channel.
So the “Weather Channel” is the only place to get weather information? Who knew. We must correct this now! BTW, whatever happened to the National Weather Service FNA the Weather Bureau? Were they victims of the sequester?
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