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Right; same here in northeastern NJ. Fake news is calling this historic, but it isn’t even close.

The news sector has become so competitive these jackasses use this panic porn/alarmism for everything now; last night it was “75 MILLION PEOPLE IN PATH OF STORM”; a few days ago as cold came down from Canada: “MORE THAN 100 MILLION PEOPLE IN FREEZING TEMPERATURES”. It is absurd and tiresome; we used to call this “winter” or “January”.

When you see the commercials for the “news” networks themselves, they play fast-paced music with scenes of storms and sirens in the background; who wants to watch that? The internet truly made TV news obsolete.

Historic was the 2 feet plus in the 90’s in your area.

This storm has very different effects depending on exactly where you live—that is why any headlines are highly misleading.

Here is NW CT it looks like the wind is going to be a bigger factor than the snow—whatever snow we do get is going to be light and fluffy and blow all over the place.

Remember this from five years ago?

On the eve of Tuesday’s Winter Storm Stella, the National Weather Service got reports that its dire prediction of up to 2 feet of snow for New York City may have been exaggerated — but decided not to change its forecast...for fear people would mistakenly think the storm was no longer dangerous.

When you see the commercials for the “news” networks themselves, they play fast-paced music with scenes of storms and sirens in the background; who wants to watch that? The internet truly made TV news obsolete.

You are 100% right about the news sector becoming so competitive that they have to out-sensationalize each other. Growing up, the local 6 and 11 o'clock news were rather staid affairs. The anchors soberly intoned the news of the day with very little fluff. The TV weathermen actually drew isobars and wind speed symbols on their maps in chalk or magic marker along with barometric readings and just assumed the folks at home knew what they meant.

In the mid 1980s, Channel 7 out of Boston started with the whiz-bang graphics and leading the news with whatever violent crime was occurring with fast-paced videos backed with police sirens and loud dramatic music. The others quickly followed suit.

It's all noise now and I blissfully tune it all out. Right now I'm just watching the snow fall out my window with some music playing. Nothing to do but Freep and read some books. I know for a fact that most of the rest of my family up in Boston are glued to the TV 24/7 focused on hysterical local coverage of the storm that is occurring right outside their windows. I never understood that. Open up the curtains, raise the blinds and observe what is happening for yourself.

Anyway, the below is how we used to get our TV weather: