[BC] TV weather

[Scott Cason]

>>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.

If you examine the location on the map where the fake sweeps center around,
you'll see the little bit of ground clutter that wasn't removed.  What
tipped me off was the center near Louisville is in the same exact site where
I know the NWS has their radar located.  So I did a quick search on the NWS
website and figured out that the other sites where the fake sweeps center
around are also locations for the NWS doppler sites.  The other thing that
tipped me off was that the echo didn't change when the sweep passed over it.
It remained the same.  My question is, why take the time and effort to put
the fake sweep on it?  Is that supposed to lend it credit as a radar image?





>>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.

A couple of stations I worked for in the past (who will remain nameless) had
the edict that the radar was supposed to be put up, even if there was
nothing going on and there was a clean sweep.  Why?  To show we had it.  So
does everybody else.  So me, in my infinite wisdom, asked on the days that
we put it up and nothing going on, won't that take away time from other news
segments?  You think someone had farted in church it got so quiet.  Of
course, nobody was about to admit the stupid idea of putting it up just to
show it off.  They didn't want just a piss ant engineer to show them up.




>>The complaints were such that you'd think someone was crucifying small
children in the nude during prime time.

They should complain when the media is treating the very people they depend
on for ratings as children with room temperature IQ.  I bet if you did a man
on the street with 100 people right now in downtown Louisville, 98% of them
could not tell you the name of any of the TV station's weather departments.
That's just not information that I personally feel the need to hang onto.
Between the hours of 4pm and 7:30pm, news is on the air at one, if not all
three, of the stations here.  I know news is cheap to produce, but there
isn't that much happening in this town on any given day.




>>I'm not sure if anyone knew if there was an actual weather event !

That's another problem.  They get to playing with the doppler radars and
maps and tower cams and chopper cams, that the message tends to get lost.
There was a sigmet in the area last summer, I believe, where one station's
"meteorologist" was so  busy showing you the ins and outs of his computers,
you forgot there was a tornado reported on the ground 5 miles east of
Louisville heading this way.  The tornado actually did strike the northern
part of the city and parts of Clarksville Indiana.  




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

Tell me what the temperature is gonna be, and I can pretty much determine
what it's gonna "feel like".  I don't need some weather weenie telling me
what 32* is gonna "feel like".  It's gonna "feel like" it's friggin' cold
outside.




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

I'm already ranting on TV weather.  Don't get me started on radio traffic
reports.


rgds,
Scott