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Tonight's Weather Coverage

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kms575

Did anyone catch the "wall-to-wall" weather coverage tonight in Hartford/New Haven? There were tornado warnings during the local evening news. All 3 had constant weather coverage and it overran into the network news. I was thinking it was overkill until they showed traffic cameras in the Bridgeport area and until it moved my way. Prrtty bad weather I thought.


I think Channel 8 had the best coverage, followed by 3 and 30 in that order. Any other opinions?
 
I was watching on line tonight from here on the West Coast, although I know the area since I grew up in CT. Seemed to me like Geoff Fox was yelling a bit but had plenty of good information...thought that WFSB's crew was fair; while I was watching they had more remote camera cut-aways than the others.

I'm watching WVIT's late news right now...what cheap-ass computer software are they using for their Doppler imagery? Man, wunderground.com is better than some of what Brad Field has to work with. Oddly, they are also reporting a lightning-sparked house fire in Avon as "Breaking News" -- even though the fire has been out for three hours. Gotta love it!

Then again, I am used to the midwest weather teams...the folks in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma are quite a bit more used to this sort of thing.
 
I agree, WVIT is way behind in terms of weather "technology."

WFSB had a 3D radar that looked vertically through the storms and were picking out areas of possible rotation. It looked pretty cool, though perhaps a bit OTT. I don't know how much use it really was, but Bruce and Mark were really trying to sell it. Have they worked at car dealerships before? :)
 
KML-224 said:
They could do without the 3D scan. The blinking boxes and rain guage thingies weren't needed either.
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They weren't rain guage thingies, they were supposedly areas of rotation within the storm. I agree though, I thought it was all a bit overkill on Channel 3 really.
 
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