This must be for the national news.
The local news has a third category that takes up at least 25% of the airtime: "Brace yourselves, folks, it's raining / snowing / hot outside (or will be soon), take cover!".
I'll never understand some people's obsession with the weather. My grandfather was one who not only watched the weather religiously but had thermostats and barometers and all manner of forecasting equipment all over the place. He could always tell you what the temperature or pressure was and usually what it was going to be. I think he just liked to prove the weatherman wrong.
I am probably more interested in weather than the average guy, but the TV guys go to far.
The other night, they interrupted the programming for 2-1/2 hours to track a couple of thunderstorms. One tornado was sighted. Nothing more aggravating than not being able to watch TV because of a few storms, the closest one 75 miles away and the furthest 200 miles away.
The weathercasters are orgasmic, interrupting each other each time one of their gadgets detects some new rotation or something.
Oh, and the MJ stuff is even worse.
they interrupted the programming for 2-1/2 hours to track a couple of thunderstorms. One tornado was sighted.
At least there were storms.
You know how they do it in L.A.?
At the slightest drizzle, reporters fan out across the Southland, turn on their cameras and say "It's raining here, Tom (the newsanchor is usually named Tom) and local residents scrambled for their umbrellas. Back to you."
By the way, that's also exactly how they cover wildfires here...
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