The Weather Channel

you guys are horrible now. stop trying to update your site. it sucks now. go back to how you used to be. sometimes what you think is progression, would only shuffle around and constantly shift things, like a tornado ! thats what your doing to your site weather channel. tornadoing the crap out of it. turning it in to more crap. is that enough for a review Unilocal

Who doesn’t need to know about the weather and weather patterns? And who doesn’t like to know about it to talk about it in some crowded elevator?
Enter the Weather Channel. I used to watch it more during the 90s. I remember when Rich Johnson, Jim Cantore, and Jeanetta Jones were younger and newer to the channel. Rich Johnson had the «cat ate the canary» grin and that almost imperceptible Southern accent indicative of better breeding, Jim Cantore’s delivery was more «yo, I’m from the Northeast,» and Jeanetta Jones would walk around pointing to the map with intermittent goofy but endearing smiles, grins, and winks. Those were the days. And, you could sit there in your warm living room and romanticize how cool it must be to be trudging through the snow as it dusted our cities in the Mountain West, the Midwest, and the upper part of the Atlantic Seaboard. Then, when they scrolled through the weather in all the major cities, they would sometimes play decent enough background music. That’s how I came to be a Joe Sample fan.
On line, the Weather Channel is useful. I like the options that range from hourly forecasts to extended 5 and 10 day forecasts. They may not hold to that pattern, but you can always recheck it for updates. I’m sort of indifferent to their chasing tornadoes and hurricanes. Once you’ve seen one of their weathercasters in a rain poncho being pummeled and almost knocked over by torrential rain, it becomes less interesting the next time around. However, you will want to keep an eye on where these storms might be headed.
What I’m not crazy about is trying to locate historical information on past weather on their website. For this task, I prefer Weather Underground. Also, their mobile site isn’t my favorite, but big screens (desktops) are always easier to work with than small screens (mobile ones).
I don’t understand the issues people have with this network and some of the abysmal ratings. The Weather Channel provides a useful resource. And who cares if they call storms by their names? I don’t know how and when that practice began. But we all know what hurricanes Andrew and Katrina entailed. Do you want to call them «the hurricane that hit Miami in 1992» and «the hurricane that hit New Orleans in 2005,» respectively? If it works, don’t fix it.
Whether a weather (clever play on words) junkie or geek, I like the Weather Channel. I also thought they’d be in or near downtown Atlanta like some of the other networks’ offices, but they appear to be up by the big freeway junction near Cumberland Mall. Regardless, I’m a fan of the Atlanta-​based Weather Channel.

They use to be a good station to watch, but now they put all these tapes on over and over with the same old stories. Also Atlanta isn’t the only city on the map all the time.
I get Weather Channel and Weather Nation on Direct TV. I’ve watched the Weather Channel for decades, but since I get Weather Nation, I switched. Weather Nation is far better. No nonsense with boring tapes.

Bring back Wunderground Classic Radar!!!

I feel sorry for the weather girls, wearing high heels and very short dresses, trying to present their weather forecasts.
It is more like a fashion show than a weather show.
Can’t the girls wear more casual clothes at times?
It seems management wants the high heels and
short dresses as a mandatory reqirement.
The weather men do not have this.
If the weather girls are not pretty, they are probably not hired.
Shame on the apparent, male, sexist, management.

For years, the weather dot com site has been slow and clunky. With the refresh a couple weeks ago, now it is just unusable. The info display provides half as much info for half as many days as it used to. The background wallpaper behind the forecast is distracting and entirely irrelevant — it depicts neither the city whose forecast you are viewing not an accurate depiction of the weather forecasted. Nearly the entire screen is now filled with ever-​more click-​bait. I will be paying for an app and getting my weather elsewhere from now on.

Too much junk on this station. (so-​called tornado/​storm «coverage» from the past – but it’s a bunch of hooey). Not enuf weather info about the west. Tired of Al Roker. Women all dress like women of ill repute. Can’t wait for accuweather to have a channel. Weather Nation is a much better channel, more informative and more down-​to-​earth. But it’s not on the DISH and I am sorry about that. I think NOAA should be charging these bums a ton of money for the use of their data. It’s the PUBLIC’s data after all. TWC just packages it – and not very well.

I used to be a die hard weather channel fan. Loved, loved, loved it! Now I can’t even watch it! The whole talk show format with the ditsy pseudo celebrity new anchors are nauseating! What used to be intelligent, informative and part of my life has died. The Stephanie & Al thing was the beginning of the end and now the coffin is closed. Ugh!

I’m a bit of a weather junkie — and so I’ve enjoyed The Weather Channel over the years. Years ago my friends used to joke that I should tape TWC coverage of major winter snowstorms and re-​watch them in the middle of summer.
I am guessing I am in the minority — but I have no problem with The Weather Channel assigning names to major winter storms. I think it’s kind of cool!

Dear Weather Channel,
Stop naming storms. Stop it. It’s annoying and the silly names you’re picking out are embarrassing. I’m not putting «Titan» in my SitRep, like I refused to put «Hercules» last time. Just stop it. If there will be a formal storm name, let NOAA do it because they aren’t deliberately making storms sound worse for ratings.
Sincerely,
More annoyed by this than I am by more snow

The new format is too small to read on what ever they are presenting. And, the quality of the presenters has declined since NBC bought this channel. Finally, what is this naming of the winter storms? Again, you all look foolish — recently you named a storm after a 50s band, Dion and the Belmonts??? CNBC has a mutual silly partner and It is you.

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Ever since The Weather Channel bought
, and then dismantled that company, I have been looking for a comparable site for accurate weather.
TWC is not it. Not by a longshot.
It kills me that a big blob of rain is within a few miles of my city, but the forecast on
for the next hour still shows it as sunny or cloudy or anything but rain. I hate that the update will only show that it’s raining *after* it’s been raining for about 20 minutes.
I understand that forecasting is a complex system that isn’t quite yet perfected. Never mind that Hurricane Sandy showed how much better the European forecasts are (which predicted Sandy’s path more accurately) than their American ones.
I miss the personalization and accuracy of
. The futurecast was certainly a lot better than on
.
Every time I go on TWC’s site, there is always sensationalist headlines in red at the top of the page. FLOODING. SEVERE WEATHER AHEAD.
How about the way they decide what the winter storms should be named? Yeah, that went over well.
Coworkers find it funny that I bring a big bag to work. That’s because I have to dress for all types of weather, since I take the bus and I don’t trust TWC. I bring an umbrella every day in the off chance that TWC just might be correct that day. I’d rather be caught in the rain with an umbrella than without one.
I still would rather have
than
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RIP

What does anyone expect out of a channel that is dedicated to providing the weather? It’s not like an individual should expect to go to their channel or website and be entertained for hours.
The interactive map on their website is one of the most useful tools that I have ever come across. Instead of having watching the local newscast, sitting through a bunch of stories that do nothing but depress you, you can just visit the weather channel website and type in your area code and see what the weather looks like in your area for the next few hours. Your days of listening to that corny local weatherman are over my friends.

It’s pretty informative when you have a television near by and you don’t mind switching from your regular scheduled program to glance at the weather channel.
I prefer the older method of looking out the window, or the newer method of checking out the website.