During storm coverage, I want local meteorologists.
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During storm coverage, I want local meteorologists.
FWIW we stopped watching TV news when our son was young as it was clear the video/graphics etc were catching his attention and it wasn't stuff we thought a toddler needed to be seeing.
If you live in DM or a city where a station is located, you have had that. If you are in the other 80-90% of the state, we haven’t had that for a long time. You learn to adjust and use a couple different apps and alerts.
-19 here at closest NWS airport station. Disappointed, -20 has much more panache than -19.
+27 in the tuck under garage. Doesn't get below 32 in there that often but it was essentially -20 last night.
+27 in the tuck under garage. Doesn't get below 32 in there that often but it was essentially -20 last night.
How is that? The stations cover most of the state, and severe weather coverage doesn't just focus on DSM
I completely agree and I hope this doesn't become the norm but I believe it will be. Pay is **** and due to it there are next to no applications in most of these smaller markets when there is an opening.
So now in the CR/IC/ALO market you have one station with no mets now, one with at least one weatherman who although he has decades of experience does not have a meteorology degree and the rest are mostly (other than Joe) young mets that are very much still learning the presentation side of things. Then you have KGAN that is regularly a dumpster fire with at least one non-met with little broadcast experience on top of it.
Bring on IE but I would also suggest that they network out to mets around the state to help build up that side of things for severe weather coverage and whatnot that know the different areas a little more intimately than just one person.
KCRG is unfortunately going down like the rest of the industry but that is some funny **** right there.
Meh, I've been a Terry Swails fan even though KGAN didn't renew his contract awhile back. I was on the KCRG bandwangon until Kaj left.
Terry was good and I still read his blog especially for major events.
I watched KGAN when I lived out in eastern iowa. It was when Terry Swailes was still there though. Thought he was good.
Liked Nick Stewart too, if he’s still there.
Nick left a year or so ago for a job at NASA in Melbourne I believe.
It does snow in New Orleans. In the parking lot of the Corps of Engineers district office in New Orleans in 2008. Woke up to see street cars running down St. Charles in the snow, would have been a great photo but no camera. BTW, MVP is an acronym for St. Paul District shortened from CEMVP (Corps of Engineers - Miss Valley Division - St. Paul District). No enough room to write CEMVP-PM-B on that windshield.
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