Skywarn.org has chapters throughout the country. These are the weather spotters and you can listen to their reports on local radio frequencies
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‘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 It has been replaced by Fox News until Bill O’Riley comes on.(I try to remember to turn it back on when Megan comes on.)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.)