It’s not a storm until some schmuck is standing out in the bad weather.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
...actual accuracy is lacking, due to varying terrain... Snowfall can vary quite a bit between elevation and wind direction. Temperature too.

Here as well. NOAA's station is at the airport some 14 miles or so as the crow flies from me. But there is the better part of 1000' elevation difference, lee side of the Black Hills mountains, routine temperature inversions, etc. So I use a weather app* that provides additional weather stations with designations like F0077, E2118, RWSE2, etc. to see conditions in spots around and nearer to me. Tells me a hell of a lot more than the both the professional dart throwing prognosticators and the basic NOAA observation / forecast.

FWIW the two apps I use (android) are:
-- NOAA Unoffical (beta)* by Granite Apps
-- weawow weather & widget app (has solid dark sky option)
I also have Windy.com on both my desktop and smartphone for lightning strikes, etc.

I agree with the OP. Weather "forecasters" and the citizens who eat that shit are "weather pussies", or more accurately, just pussies in general. Those same people wear designer jackets in cold weather, wait three hours for someone to come out to change their tire, and wait in line for 30 minutes to pay $10 for a smoothie. Yes I said it. Whether they're weather pussies, tire changer pussies, or smoothie pussies, they're all cut from the same cloth. And the worst thing about pussies is they multiply.

Additionally, why must every tiny little snow accumulation of any amount IN MICHIGAN receive its own alert, special weather statement, hazardous weather outlook, or other NWS issued advisory product?

It's Michigan, in the winter. I could see such things being helpful if this was someplace which didn't routinely experience frozen precipitation, like the southern US, but it isn't. This weather occurs very frequently here every winter.

Also, naming winter storms is ridiculous.

Code RED Code RED!!! 20% chance or rain tomorrow... details at 5:00.


And are we supposed to believe that local TV weather girl's name is actually...

Danielle Breezy?

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Originally posted by cparktd:
And are we supposed to believe that local TV weather girl's name is actually...

Danielle Breezy?

As unlikely as it may seem: That is, in fact, her real name. Her husband is Joe Breezy.

I don't pay much attention to weather segments. I don't watch tv news in the first place.

I do track the weather on a weather map and i have percent of rain and temperature showing on my apple watch.

Had a trained metorologist (?) (weatherman) tell me that "weathermen do it with cracked crystal balls"......... the " wet bulb" and "wind chill" have great effect on the human skin depending the "humidity" as well as "wind" ..... .... like in the news be it newsprint or radio / tv that if the story bleeds then it leads.......... How can so many weathermen keep their jobs while being so wrong on their forecast so much of the time?? How would you fare if you had this kind of track record with your employer?? Why do they only give general forecast that gives them so much leeway as what to expect?? .................... drill sgt.

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Originally posted by architect:
More importantly, the weather hotties seem to be much less radiant these days (or maybe it is my temperature that has cooled off?)

We haven't had a weather hottie around here in years, ever since Sophie Soong left. Most of them now are guys, and they're so f'ing young! Or maybe it's just that I've reached old. Between their high & tight haircuts, young faces and tailored suits I keep thinking they look like a bunch of gay 15 year olds. Oh, and a couple of them have a penchant for wearing brown shoes with a blue suit. Who the hell wears brown shoes with a blue suit? I can't believe someone at the station hasn't explained that to them.

If want a weather hottie, I have to dial up one of the spanish language channels. I don't understand a word they're saying, but damn!

"The only profession where you can be wrong 80% of the time and not get fired."

You wanna know what the weather's gonna be?

Stick your head out the frickin window.

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Also, naming winter storms is ridiculous.

THIS!!!

What a steaming pile of self-aggrandizing bullshit from The Weather Channel.
(And WTF watches them anymore anyway?!)

I don't like being treated to predictions of WINTER BLAST, SUMMER COOKER, or WHIRLING DERVISH OF HURRICANE DEATH.

The overly dramatic weather forecasts.

Even sadder, we lost one of our weather hotties, Britta Merwin, to national news.

Bomb Cyclone!

I've been watching the weather in Mexico closely for quite a while, I'm not going there, no plans on travel, no relatives or property there, however I do have a great interest in the reporting..

What the heck is the difference between partly sunny and partly cloudy?

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Originally posted by Cookster:
And then there’s this classic of a meteorologist-actor from the Weather Channel pretending to be bracing against high winds -

Indeed. Some of us are old enough to remember when TV shows were entertainment and the news was reality.

"45 million people in the path of this killer storm!!!!"

So ... you're saying it's heading towards the Northeast, huh?

And we've got Larry Sprinkle telling us the weather here in Charlotte.

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Originally posted by wingspar:

What the heck is the difference between partly sunny and partly cloudy?

Hard to be "partly sunny" at night.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
It all started with this guy!

I thought the problem was that porker Willard Scott....