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2026 WINTER STORM

It might be overkill, but this is how WSB used to do it and that made them the "go to" station. They are more careful nowadays because they have bosses who are watching their billing. ANF is #4 in the market and need to do everything they can to differentiate themselves from the other station.
 
Channel 2 went all storm this AM and didn't air GMA. They had about 15 minutes of content they keep (mostly last night stories) repeating over and over. HULU had about 30 minutes of GMA until they switched to some kind of news magazine style show. Storm or Ice still not here at 6pm. 40⁰ last check and the Chick-fil-A drive thru is still open. On my way for some supper. They will be closed tomorrow bad weather or not.
 
Megatron said:
The South got it bad with snow & freezing rain I'd take the snow over freezing rain. It's an ice box in Michigan I don't like teens or single digits for highs or below zero.
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It wasn't a general coverage. There is a local weather occasion pattern the locals call the wedge. It basically is cooler air coming down on the East side of the Appalachian Mountains. We were 5+degrees warmer that Atlanta which is 45+ miles south. I live on about the same latitude but 25 miles west of Gainesville GA. Except the hilltops we had very few problems. Gainesville was a mess. Best I can tell the storm hit Nashville much worse than Atlanta. We were at 34⁰ when it was raining. 3 degrees cooler and I most likely wouldn't be using my battery on my phone to type this.
 
ShawtyBlack_ATL said:
CBS ATLANTA NEWS…. Where are you???
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I seriously doubt someone could physically stand for hours on one place on the green screen set that serves as their news set. Do they have enough "anchors" and reporters to go hours and hours with "fluff". I know one of the stations showed the Thursday Night "brine truck" report at least every other hour on Saturday. Of course they could tape an hours or two and repeat with as little actual news there was.

IMHO: OTA wise (still 10+% of the viewers) only 11 was able to air the NBC stuff on 36 while doing the local thing and of course 69 a CBS O & O remained CBS most of the time.

I did get some ABC on HULU but there was a glitch on Saturday morning during GMA.
 
Is there a discussion of Charlotte's weather?

It seemed every forecast was for a "catastrophic" or "crippling" ice storm. Where I live, freezing rain didn't even make the trees pretty. Sleet and snow was all we had, as far as I could tell. That's enough to make the roads hazardous, but I watched WCCB last night and we were told there were almost no power outages. A little truck from a company that repairs power lines passed me as I was walking for exercise. That man didn't have much to do.

While I didn't sample everyone, two meteorologists on WCCB were talking last night. The one complimented the other on getting the forecast right--he said more sleet, less freezing rain. An earlier forecast from a WCCB meteorologist said "I think" the freezing rain would move northward. Well, it didn't.
 
WANF Atlanta News First is still live on air broadcasting news as of this post (2pm Monday) 😒😒😒. They have been on air since 5AM Saturday morning. The promo commercials have started bragging about being independent, local and giving days of advanced alerts.

Most of Atlanta was okay with a few black ice spots but NE Georgia got most of the freezing rain and ice.

Still, overkill!!
 
ShawtyBlack_ATL said:
WANF Atlanta News First is still live on air broadcasting news as of this post (2pm Monday) 😒😒😒. They have been on air since 5AM Saturday morning. The promo commercials have started bragging about being independent, local and giving days of advanced alerts.

Most of Atlanta was okay with a few black ice spots but NE Georgia got most of the freezing rain and ice.

Still, overkill!!
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Yet you and others are still listening, which is all that matters.
 


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