[BC] TV weather

[Cowboy]

On Wednesday 08 February 2006 09:32 pm, Scott Cason wrote:

>It seems the four TV stations here in Louisville have decided to turn off
>their local weather radar apparati and instead, put up a composite NWS image
>while placing cheezy fake beam sweeps on them.  One station calls theirs
>"High definition doppler".  Another calls theirs "triple team doppler".  Yet
>another calls their "first alert storm team doppler", and rounding out the
>names is "fast alert doppler".  Four names for the same basic picture they
>get from the NWS. 

 Yeah, "Doppler 5000 dual-doppler radar 5000, doppler 5000" gets a little old. 
 I don't know that any of it is NWS, but they have added the cheesy beams of late.

>Out of those six winters, we usually get snow at 
>some point between November and March.  However, for some reason, our TV
>news people act like it's the first time they have ever seen snow.

 Really ?
 We get that in the lake-effect snow belt, too !

>I'm about ready to give up on local TV news.  I suppose they think that
>viewers have to be entertained with all the whizz-bang graphics and catchy
>names for the weather department. 

 The worst example I know of, was ch 5 in Cleveland when they first got
 their "doppler 5000" system.
 Some storm was blowing through, and they pre-empted all but two minutes
 of some popular hour long network show. Out of that pre-emption, about 3 minutes
 was actual weather, and the rest was blatant promotion of their brand new
 weather radar.

 It was SO bad that the papers ran spoof transcripts where every third word
 or so was either "doppler 5000" or "5000 doppler 5000."
 The complaints were such that you'd think someone was crucifying small
 children in the nude during prime time.
 I'm not sure if anyone knew if there was an actual weather event !

>Simply tell me what the high today, the 
>low tonight and the weather for the next couple of days will be.

 Um, don't you want to know what it will "feel like" ??   :-)

>If there 
>is severe weather in the area, show me a FLAT 2-D radar view of where it's
>at and where it's going.  Don't flip it on it's end, don't turn it inside
>out.  Simply show me where it's at and where it's going! 

 I will give ch5 credit for doing a really good job on that in recent times.
 ( to the street level in cases of tornados and such )

>I don't care that 
>you have enough triax to take a camera outside, I don't care how many tower
>cams you have (I already know what Louisville looks like anyway), I don't
>care that the AMS says your weather person is good. Sheese.

 Well, the AMS seems to like Al Roker, but he didn't last very long in Cleveland !

 My only question, having lived here for more than a half century, is where
 the h%$# is the "Jennings Freeway" ??

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