[BC] Weather on the 8's

[Bernie Courtney]

i couldn't tell you the last time i watched the weather channel, but I'm
going to assume 'weather on the 8's' is still "your local forecast".  And
the text they use comes from the national weather services' local forecast
office for whatever area your viewing in (heres a link to all the local
offices by state, once on the forecast offices page on the left side click
on LOCAL FORECASTS, and then ZONE FORECAST PRODUCT.  that more or less (with
a little parsing) is what they are using.  As far as i know that info is
manually typed in by a meteorologist at the local NWS office and dont have a
master list of words they can choose from, at least for that product, others
like the hourly update w/ conditions do always use the same phrases.

hope this helps

Bernie

On 12/1/05, JJisCool <jjiscool at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am doing a project for school and am looking for a list of all the
> phrases
> used in like weather.com's weather on the 8's or the digital weatherman or
> any of those types of weather programs that assemble weather forecasts on
> the fly.
>
> Can anybody point me to a list of those phrases?
>
> JJ Jackson
> PennState
>
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