# Hundreds of local tv station meteorologists are being laid off **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 22, 2025, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hundreds-of-local-tv-station-meteorologists-are-being-laid-off/1013250 "2025-01-22T13:01:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hundreds-of-local-tv-station-meteorologists-are-being-laid-off/1013250/61 "2025-01-24T00:09:35Z")
It’s not that I don’t pay attention to what’s happening locally. I just don’t get that information from TV news broadcasts. I mostly get it from the local public radio station. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hundreds-of-local-tv-station-meteorologists-are-being-laid-off/1013250/62 "2025-01-24T00:24:22Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > And purely on the local level – what happens locally can screw you up massively. How do you know what the town/village/city/borough just decided can or can’t be built next door to you? How do you even know what’s in your water? The local subreddit. People are on top of that stuff. One of the city council members is a regular poster. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hundreds-of-local-tv-station-meteorologists-are-being-laid-off/1013250/63 "2025-01-24T02:29:14Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > The local subreddit. People are on top of that stuff. One of the city council members is a regular poster > [@WildaBeast](#): > > I just don’t get that information from TV news broadcasts. I mostly get it from the local public radio station OK, that makes sense – if your local radio station still has local reporters, and your local subreddit functions in that fashion. I agree that it doesn’t need to be the television station that’s doing local reporting. But somebody needs to be doing local reporting. (And while a city council member is a useful source for what’s happening on the city council – they shouldn’t be the only source.) ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hundreds-of-local-tv-station-meteorologists-are-being-laid-off/1013250/64 "2025-01-24T03:03:01Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > And while a city council member is a useful source for what’s happening on the city council – they shouldn’t be the only source.) He isn’t. He will say something and others will comment if they agree or disagree. He’ll respond and clarify in real time. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hundreds-of-local-tv-station-meteorologists-are-being-laid-off/1013250/65 "2025-01-24T12:51:28Z")
I don’t know – that complaint seems a bit odd to me. Even with melted snow, that’s a snowfall – the amount of snow that came from a single storm. Could he have used the less precise and perhaps more colloquial “snow”? I guess. But why? “Snowfall” is a perfectly acceptable word and has a clearer, more nuanced meaning than just “snow.” I expect a weather report to use more refined terminology. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hundreds-of-local-tv-station-meteorologists-are-being-laid-off/1013250/66 "2025-01-24T20:04:25Z")
> [@Al128](#): > > if you have an airport near, you should be able to get “official” **local** flight-weather from a profesional service (govt agency?), without al the clownery at 9.00 - 9.05pm. I have three airports near me, and the weather at each is different. Welcome to microclimates. SFO has tons of weather delays, OAK, just across the Bay, hardly has any. It would take me far longer to look at the weather for all the places I might be going to on my phone than watching TV. Not to mention seeing the direction of rains, for instance, I can figure out when it will arrive far better than looking at rain probabilities on the phone. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hundreds-of-local-tv-station-meteorologists-are-being-laid-off/1013250/67 "2025-01-24T22:55:12Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > It would take me far longer to look at the weather for all the places I might be going to on my phone than watching TV. I don’t understand. Your local tv station has weather on a loop? I’d thought you’d have to wait until the station deems to broadcast weather instead of something else. I use the Weather Underground service. (I’ve used it since it was a gopher service, even before http existed.) It’s trivially easy to look up any location and get the weather feed for that location. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hundreds-of-local-tv-station-meteorologists-are-being-laid-off/1013250/68 "2025-01-24T23:03:20Z")
My wife has the uncanny ability to tune into a news show exactly when the weather comes on. She also records the local news so that we can fast forward to the weather. But a map with the conditions over the entire Bay Area is a lot more friendly than lists of temperatures one city at a time. I do consult my phone if I need to see when it is supposed to rain, but that’s about it. We have multiple outside thermometers, so I don’t need any help in that regard. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hundreds-of-local-tv-station-meteorologists-are-being-laid-off/1013250/69 "2025-01-24T23:11:29Z")
They tried it here, and it worked for about a day. Then came the push back. > **[Weather coverage at KEZI 9 News](https://www.kezi.com/news/weather-coverage-at-kezi-9-news/article_ce0ec07c-d9e3-11ef-be45-47bf0137fa1e.html)** > > KEZI will continue to provide market-leading coverage from your StormTracker 9 Meteorologists. I’m sure they’ll try again, but for now, the local meteorologists at one local station are safe. And since this is the only non-Sinclair station in my region, I’m glad. If this has already been posted or shared, my apologies – I haven’t reviewed the entire thread. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hundreds-of-local-tv-station-meteorologists-are-being-laid-off/1013250/70 "2025-01-25T00:17:48Z")
That’s good news. The public should voice concerns if they’re local news and weather gets contracted out. A.I. is the next challenge. Why pay salaries when a bot can read the news? 🤮 ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hundreds-of-local-tv-station-meteorologists-are-being-laid-off/1013250/71 "2025-01-25T01:34:15Z")
I can hardly wait 🙄 for hurricane paths to be presented by sharpie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hundreds-of-local-tv-station-meteorologists-are-being-laid-off/1013250.md?page=3)