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bigdarryl

(13,190 posts) Sun Mar 3, 2013, 05:42 PM Mar 2013

I'm sick and tired of the Weather Channel and others weather forecast HYPING snow storms

Here we go again I was just watching Weather Channel and there now hyping this so called Saturn storm for the Northeast next week Wednesday while there doing that the temperatures for next week in the Northeast are in the mid to high forties that's not temperatures for snow to stick .Fucking assholes!!!

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I'm sick and tired of the Weather Channel and others weather forecast HYPING snow storms (Original Post) bigdarryl Mar 2013 OP

Don't watch Botany Mar 2013 #1

Thanks I never heard of this Im defiantly tuning in to this bigdarryl Mar 2013 #5

put in your zip code or a city and state and go from there ... Botany Mar 2013 #7

Do you know they were bought out by the Weather Channel? link - Mnemosyne Mar 2013 #9

Uhm -- they ARE the Weather Channel! immoderate Mar 2013 #2

I laugh every time. It's all an attempt at fear for the sake of ratings. richmwill Mar 2013 #3

The problem is that when a big bad storm is coming, hedgehog Mar 2013 #4

I wish there was some way to adjust the warning to take into account the history hedgehog Mar 2013 #6

So true. I remember the 1960s in Indiana -- temperatures below zero. JDPriestly Mar 2013 #8

Everybody complains about the weather TheManInTheMac Mar 2013 #10

Botany

(70,504 posts)

1. Don't watch

Reply to bigdarryl (Original post)

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 05:44 PM

Mar 2013

http://www.wunderground.com/

play around @ this site and you almost never watch "TV Weather" again.

bigdarryl

(13,190 posts)

5. Thanks I never heard of this Im defiantly tuning in to this

Reply to Botany (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 05:56 PM

Mar 2013

Botany

(70,504 posts)

7. put in your zip code or a city and state and go from there ...

Reply to bigdarryl (Reply #5)

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 06:07 PM

Mar 2013

.... the local radar maps are really useful .... click on them and then hit animate or
storm direction ...... then look @ your bigger regional map and click on that an
animate it .... you can tell what is coming e.z.. the detailed hourly link @ the bottom
of the forecast box is the bomb too ...... for days on out you can see the temps, the cloud
cover, and the % of precip.

After i found this site I have never gone to see what the weather is on the TV machine ....
the site was just sold and has lots more pop up ads and shit but it still pretty good.

It was started @ the University of Michigan by and for weather geeks.

Mnemosyne

(21,363 posts)

9. Do you know they were bought out by the Weather Channel? link -

Reply to Botany (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 07:58 PM

Mar 2013

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/02/nice-move-weather-channel-buys-weather-underground-to-sharpen-focus-on-digital/

immoderate

(20,885 posts)

2. Uhm -- they ARE the Weather Channel!

Reply to bigdarryl (Original post)

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 05:52 PM

Mar 2013

...and they're not making snow like they used to...

--imm

richmwill

(1,326 posts)

3. I laugh every time. It's all an attempt at fear for the sake of ratings.

Reply to bigdarryl (Original post)

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 05:53 PM

Mar 2013

"Tune in at 10 to find out about the possibility of a DEADLY snowstorm coming our way this week- Will it hit us hard? You NEED to stay tuned to find out all the details of this major, major winter storm". I've heard it all before. It's all just to worry people into tuning in, to get their ratings up. I heard a ratings pitch just like that on our local forecast last night- checked a weather website, no snow expected this week at all. Sunny skies.

hedgehog

(36,286 posts)

4. The problem is that when a big bad storm is coming,

Reply to bigdarryl (Original post)

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 05:54 PM

Mar 2013

how will we be able to tell?

hedgehog

(36,286 posts)

6. I wish there was some way to adjust the warning to take into account the history

Reply to bigdarryl (Original post)

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 05:59 PM

Mar 2013

of a particular area. Six inches is a disaster in Atlanta, but isn't even worth mentioning in my home town! Atlanta doesn't have a fleet of huge snowplows on standby to deal with snow fall. By the same token - no one here would have a notion what to do if there was a hurricane coming!

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)

8. So true. I remember the 1960s in Indiana -- temperatures below zero.

Reply to bigdarryl (Original post)

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 06:58 PM

Mar 2013

When did we last hear of temperatures below zero in Indiana. It was not extremely uncommon then.

The snow cover in the Midwest is heavier than it has been in recent years, but not really, really heavy.

Here they talk about "bitter cold" and the temperatures are in the mid- to upper 30s.

Crazy.

http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/Indianapolis+IN+USIN0305:1:US

In 1982, it got down to -21 degrees at the Indianapolis Airport.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ind/extreme_retrieve.php

What are these crazy people moaning about. I remember shoveling deep snow all winter some years in the Midwest.

TheManInTheMac

(985 posts)

10. Everybody complains about the weather

Reply to bigdarryl (Original post)

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 09:13 PM

Mar 2013

Channel, but nobody ever does anything about it.

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