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Storm Coverage

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I was scanning the dial last night, kind of curious as to how some stations were covering the weather. I came across 99.7 and I ask what in the heck do they think they're accomplishing with that kind of style? Russ interprets the radar...OVER the phone. Listeners call the station and ask him what the weather is doing in their area. He gives the description as to what he sees on the radar.

That style did absolutely NOTHING for me as I was trying to figure out where the real danger was. Totally lame.

Then I went to 100.5 and they had it going on pretty good as they help me find the danger approaching Elwood. Very good overall regional coverage, and I like the Weather Channel people on there.

I pushed seek and the next one I came across with weather coverage was 92.5. These guys put the storm in perspective. I don't know their names, but they described the storms the best way I heard. They actually said that the threat was there, but it was up to ME to know when to go to cover. That made pretty good sense, since not everybody was in a dangerous area.

I pushed seek again and found these guys on 98.5, too. They must be out of the same building.

Here we go again...storm season begins. Who's doing it right? Who's doing it wrong? Let the melodrama begin... ::)
 
During the last 2 weather events, the Indy NWS office has been having issues with their EAS encoding software.
I believe it has something to do with daylight saving time, but all warnings issued Wednesday evening (4-11-07) as well as those during last week's severe weather were improperly encoded on NOAA Weather Radio.
The PC or machine that encodes the data burst had the clock one hour behind.
Thus any severe thunderstorm warning issued would already be expired when we received it. Therefore, the event didn't autoforward, and didn't even print on many EAS machines.
I don't think any radio station served by Indy NOAA WX Radio got any of the warnings on the air live, unless the jock saw the warning on the wire or on one of the TV stations, then read the copy live (which I did). I hope they found the fix. This is not the time of year for the EAS system to be funky in Indiana.
 
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