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I think it's a click bait type thing. Weather reports are somewhat accurate, but they need to put it out there to get views and ad revenue because they know people want to know the weather. Same with the traffic reporters. Then the rest of the news is piped in from corporate to the affiliates that they think will get viewers to stay over the breaks.

My SIL was a meteorologist and did the weather for a news station somewhere in the country (sorry, don't want to dox myself after Patrick's recent bout of it). I wouldn't trust what she had to say, lets put it that way. It's not as "techie" as many meteorologists "act" like it is. It's basically an acting role.

Also different regions have huge variables. In my area it could snow 1' in Chicago and we get nothing way out by me (lake effect snow). Spring in Chicago is miserable because the lake is so cold and it lowers the temps near the shore depending on wind. Used to commute to UIC from out West and I'd wake up in T shirt and short and get to the city and freeze my ass off. Lesson learned after the first time. A measly 50 miles can make a huge difference. It's also hard to give accurate info over the space affiliates or weather sites have to cover. Hurricanes are about the only thing they get mostly right, though that can be hit or miss too.

I was talking about the weather news cast on local news stations.

I get more accurate information from a quick glance at the NOAA maps than I get from the meteorologists on TV.

WookieMan says

It's not as "techie" as many meteorologists "act" like it is. It's basically an acting role.

WSVN here in south Florida had a very voluptuous weather gal, then about two years after she started. One segment she was being honored and congratulated for getting her bachelors in the field. She left the Station shortly after that.

Tenpoundbass says

The weather gall

I like it!

WookieMan says

Hurricanes are about the only thing they get mostly right, though that can be hit or miss too.

About that! Hurricanes and Earthquakes were always the least predictable events on our planet. Now they get Hurricanes down to the actual beachfront it will land on.
But I have noticed in the last couple of years, the storm always follows the path of the Storm Hunter planes. The paths of the Hurricanes have all been almost identical in the last decade or so. Meaning ones that form off Africa, are taking the same exact course every year, the storms that form off the Yucatan peninsula follows the same paths, the storms that form in the Gulf take the same routes. Before we started getting sophisticated with Hurricane hunter planes, and before cloud seeding technology, Storms never took the same path twice. These Bastards are calling where a hurricane will end up, when it's nothing more than a mere "Tropical Disturbance" off the coast of Africa.