As the turnovers at WGCL continues...

[ShawtyBlack_ATL]

I went to school for Broadcast Meteorology and one of CBS 46's biggest problem is their weather. The afternoon/evening weather lady is awful. WGCL will need to start hiring knowledgeable meteorologist and stop hiring people for sex appeal.

The weather graphics are awful and their radar imagery is awful. Their futurecast models have very low resolution which makes it look much more blurry than the other stations.

While he still needs to get better acquainted with north Ga, Mike Francis over at 11 alive proves to be the most accurate of all mets around. He also creates his own forecast vs taking from the NWS. Technology over at WSB is good but they read the forecast from the NWS. Ken Cook is good at what he does but he's way to conservative for my taste. For example, if models are indicating snow, he will not even hint at it until 24 hours prior. Severe weather? Same deal; He will not even mention the threat for severe weather until 24 hours prior while everyone else is screaming the threat is there.

There is a fine line with under-estimating a weather forecast and dramatizing minor weather activity. OMG, winds blew down a tree on a car!

Back to WGCL though- They need a good meteorologist who will include skycams in the burbs, better graphics, and a little more time. I miss Gene Norman who has be Atlanta's most accurate in the last 10 years. Chris Smith (weekend guy) was good as well.

I do agree that Gene Norman was the best meterologist WGCL had. I thought Markina Brown was certfied by AMS and NWS? WGCL's weather graffics and maps do need a major upgrade though. They do have tower cams around the city, but the resolution is horrible. On live TV the images move every 2 seconds or so. I know one is on top of the Atlantic building at Atlantic Station and one is on top of Grady Hospital. They also use tower cams via WeatherBug network. No ATL stations utilize tower cams like they do over in Birmingham,AL during sever weather.

 

[kilamanjero]

I went to school for Broadcast Meteorology and one of CBS 46's biggest problem is their weather. The afternoon/evening weather lady is awful. WGCL will need to start hiring knowledgeable meteorologist and stop hiring people for sex appeal.

The weather graphics are awful and their radar imagery is awful. Their futurecast models have very low resolution which makes it look much more blurry than the other stations.

While he still needs to get better acquainted with north Ga, Mike Francis over at 11 alive proves to be the most accurate of all mets around. He also creates his own forecast vs taking from the NWS. Technology over at WSB is good but they read the forecast from the NWS. Ken Cook is good at what he does but he's way to conservative for my taste. For example, if models are indicating snow, he will not even hint at it until 24 hours prior. Severe weather? Same deal; He will not even mention the threat for severe weather until 24 hours prior while everyone else is screaming the threat is there.

There is a fine line with under-estimating a weather forecast and dramatizing minor weather activity. OMG, winds blew down a tree on a car!

Back to WGCL though- They need a good meteorologist who will include skycams in the burbs, better graphics, and a little more time. I miss Gene Norman who has be Atlanta's most accurate in the last 10 years. Chris Smith (weekend guy) was good as well.

I do agree that Gene Norman was the best meterologist WGCL had. I thought Markina Brown was certfied by AMS and NWS? WGCL's weather graffics and maps do need a major upgrade though. They do have tower cams around the city, but the resolution is horrible. On live TV the images move every 2 seconds or so. I know one is on top of the Atlantic building at Atlantic Station and one is on top of Grady Hospital. They also use tower cams via WeatherBug network. No ATL stations utilize tower cams like they do over in Birmingham,AL during sever weather.

The reason is non of the Birmingham TV stations have news helicopters (except ABC 33/40 which has a lease on theirs but lacks a zoom cam) unlike the stations here. The fact that all the stations in the Atlanta TV market has their own helicopters means that having a network of live cameras throughout the region would basically be overkill. Also the Birmingham TV market is segmented and pretends to be more "small-town oriented" focusing too much on the other areas rather than the city unlike Atlanta which is very centralized on the city (which is more like top 10 market ought to be). They may take severe weather more serious in Birmingham, but its news operations operate like they are a non top 50 market, which ultimately hurts Birmingham and creates the perception of it being smaller than it actually is more than anything else.