Comments on: PR 101 Weekly Rant #10 I’ve had up to here with television weather reports

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By: Robert Johnson

Robert Johnson — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:59:20 +0000

As the storm “approaches”: The shot of the TV mannequin in front of the huge pile of salt. That one kills me. Also, accumulation predictions almost invariably diminish from 12 to 15 inches, to 7 to 9 inches, to 3 to 6 inches, depending on where you are. All with the confidence of Barney Fife. “Yahp, that’s my prediction.” These snow totals tend to settle down as the winter goes along, unless there is a month or more between major snow “events.” This rabid news hype actually cost the Chicago Streets and San guy his job as he completely overreacted to the first “event” of the 2008-09 winter season and practically called out the Marines for what was basically a very hard frost. I just go by how much and how fast the snow piles on top of the covered Weber grill. Never fails.

By: Dave Cooksley

Dave Cooksley — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:26:40 +0000

Ditto on the hype-factor. My solution – Get all of the facts and none of the drama by going to the source that the talking heads (aka weather “personalities”) use: The National Weather Service:

http://forecast.weather.gov

By: Laughmore

Laughmore — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:24:17 +0000

Everyone has a choice of what to listen to and what to watch. If you prefer to listen or watch something else, change the channel. Sometimes it is better to know and prepare than to be unprepared. Smile

By: Erin Read Ruddick

Erin Read Ruddick — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:31:30 +0000

Great Rant! The unreasonable coverage has had another side-effect: school systems that call for “snow days” based on the over-hyped weather reports.

Twice in the last year our regional school system has cancelled school the afternoon BEFORE a storm was predicted … hysterically … to hit. Both times, not a single flake hit the ground.

By: tina

tina — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:10:28 +0000

I used to live in Virginia Beach. We rarely got snow and when we did, it was like dandruff on the ground that quickly went away. Every once in a while we would get a hurricane. I realized there was a serious issue with “weather hype” when the local stations showed storms headed straight for us and the national weather service showed storms coming nowhere near us. Unfortunately, when you live in an area prone to hurricanes, this ridiculous weather hype is akin to crying wolf and someone may really stop paying attention and wind up hurt.