Accurate Strength Forecasting of Fred Leaves Weather Channel Stretching For Threats

[Jimmy Higgins]

ATLANTA, GA -- Weather hosts and analysts were struggling to come up with drama as Tropical Storm Fred was poised to make landfall on the Florida Panhandle as decent sized tropical storm with winds of only 60 mph and no threat of lingering causing severe widespread flooding.

Without a major storm surge or the devastating impact of hurricane force winds, hosts needed to cite highway flooding from up to an inch of rain an hour intensities. Weather Channel hosts were also challenged to make certain statements with a straight face as the drama of serious hurricane strike was unlikely, making it harder to keep people from changing the channel to something more devastating like the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

Not even the threat of rain in earthquake struck Haiti could provide ratings relief for the channel.

A general manager for the station was quoted as saying this August has been a ratings disaster and if the weather continues as such, this will become one of the worst hurricane seasons in years for their ratings.

 

[Elixir]

ATLANTA, GA -- Weather hosts and analysts were struggling to come up with drama as Tropical Storm Fred was poised to make landfall on the Florida Panhandle as decent sized tropical storm with winds of only 60 mph and no threat of lingering causing severe widespread flooding.

Without a major storm surge or the devastating impact of hurricane force winds, hosts needed to cite highway flooding from up to an inch of rain an hour intensities. Weather Channel hosts were also challenged to make certain statements with a straight face as the drama of serious hurricane strike was unlikely, making it harder to keep people from changing the channel to something more devastating like the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

Not even the threat of rain in earthquake struck Haiti could provide ratings relief for the channel.

A general manager for the station was quoted as saying this August has been a ratings disaster and if the weather continues as such, this will become one of the worst hurricane seasons in years for their ratings.

They have ways of dealing with those situations:

 

[skepticalbip]

They have ways of dealing with those situations:

The report is obviously just a show even without the two people casually strolling around behind the reporter. The wind is blowing from the right of the screen but the reporter is pretending to brace against a wind blowing from the left of the screen. Maybe he is shielding the microphone from the wind or maybe he wanted to show his more photogenic side.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

ATLANTA, GA -- Weather hosts and analysts were struggling to come up with drama as Tropical Storm Fred was poised to make landfall on the Florida Panhandle as decent sized tropical storm with winds of only 60 mph and no threat of lingering causing severe widespread flooding.

Without a major storm surge or the devastating impact of hurricane force winds, hosts needed to cite highway flooding from up to an inch of rain an hour intensities. Weather Channel hosts were also challenged to make certain statements with a straight face as the drama of serious hurricane strike was unlikely, making it harder to keep people from changing the channel to something more devastating like the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

Not even the threat of rain in earthquake struck Haiti could provide ratings relief for the channel.

A general manager for the station was quoted as saying this August has been a ratings disaster and if the weather continues as such, this will become one of the worst hurricane seasons in years for their ratings.

They have ways of dealing with those situations:

That was where I was going with this. I caught them talking about Fred on TWC and they brought up the 1 inch an hour thing and highway flooding and they are trying to feed each other things to riff... but it is just a tropical storm blowing through.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

TWC Broadcaster Heard Swearing Under Breath With Weakening and Shifting Hurricane Linda

ATLANTA, GA -- A weather forecaster was heard uttering a curse word when the forecast track of Hurricane Linda indicated both weakening and shifting path north of Hawaii making it less likely that a Hawaii impact would occur. The Weather Channel has suffered a shocking drop in ratings as tropical storms continue underimpressing viewers and not impacting the US.

Sources inside TWC indicate there is hope that a shortwave ridge might be forming in Canada that could provide a ratings bonanza if it steers to be Hurricane Henri into New England.