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.
The local subreddit. People are on top of that stuff. One of the city council members is a regular poster.
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.)
He isn’t. He will say something and others will comment if they agree or disagree. He’ll respond and clarify in real time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
They tried it here, and it worked for about a day. Then came the push back.
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.
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? 
I can hardly wait 
for hurricane paths to be presented by sharpie.