Tuesday, January 3, 2012

TV News Weather Hype

Over the weekend stumbled upon the local news and the weather segment. The forecast was amazing sunny upper 70s from New Year's Day until Friday. A perfect week! Yet, all the hype or worry was about temps dropping into the mid-60s by the weekend. I can see if there was going to be a major storm, but going form the 70s to 60s and still sunny is not alarming, yet at the end of the weather segment you were left with that nervous feeling. Why can't they say the next 6 days are going to be flawless and enjoy? (BTW, the forecast for next weekend is the lower 70s). This is why I use http://weather.gov and http://weatherspark.com for the forecast since it is plain text and no hype.

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