I’m not sure what your point is. Except for the 11pm news, you’ve pretty much covered all your bases. Unless you mean to imply that viewers are morons, no matter WHAT time they watch the news…
I’ll add my personal gripe.
It really irks me when the anchors “jokingly” ask the weatherman to change the weather to something more pleasant than the forecast.
I want the weatherman to “jokingly” ask the anchors for better news.
Maybe the weatherman is the retarded one. Like this one we have here, I’ve heard him more than once say, when it is say 30 degrees in the morning but going to get up to 60 in the afternoon, that the temperature is going to “double” or be “twice as high.” No, dipshit, the temperature going from 30 to 60 is not doubling. Perhaps fifth grade math should be a prerequisite for college meteorology courses.
I also hate the way they go apeshit whenever there’s a 10% chance of a dusting of snow. Calm the hell down people.
Have you done a thread with that title? 
“Do you have vinyl seats?”
There seems to be a 100% chance of retards in the OP.
Heat-index, or “feel like” temperature is widely reported, and rather useful to those of use who spend a lot of time out doors. One might not get the concept so easily if one spends most of one’s time in the basement of one’s mother.
And, has already been explained, “freezing rain” is a different thing than snow, sleet, or hail.
I do remember an old Billy Connolly sketch about patronizing weathermen appealing to the lowest common denominator. So the same feeling exists in the UK as well. As for Continental Europe, well I never really watched their forecasts often.
I’ve been avoiding TV weather for several years because of annoying presentations, including the apparent need of stations to be alarmist in order to get you to tune in to their crapola.
I get most of my weather online from the National Weather Service or Weather Underground. Concise, non-hysterical forecasting, statistics, radar if I want it. No dopey teasers, mugging and smirking for the camera, nauseating banter with the anchors etc.
NOAA, one of the few, government organizations I’m proud to support with my tax dollars.
Enjoy,
Steven
I don’t know about other areas, but in metropolitan LA, it is a running gag with us locals everytime we get our first sprinkle of the year. Why? Because it is a guarantee that the first time there’s a chance of any tangible precipitation, at least three of the networks’ newscasts will lead off with the following top story:
STORMWATCH 2007!
Each of them will have three or four reporters scattered throughout the city to report on the fact that people are going to get wet and the commutes are going to suck because everyone panics. And the weatherman gets to be the star of the show.
I’m not sure if they’re the bigger idiots for broadcasting this way, or if we are for watching it.
Umm … maybe I’m an idiot, but going from 30 to 60 sure looks like it doubles to me. Am I missing something?
Regarding the OP: I don’t like the term “feel-like temperature,” but I agree with Trunk that in exceptionally hot places (like east Texas), a heat index figure is good information to have. Here in Alabama, our summertime day temperature tends to top out in the low to mid 90s F, but with the humidity factored in the heat index can be more than 110 F. That’s a significant difference, and one that people who plan to be outside need to take into consideration.
What’s your ‘feel like’ temperature? Maybe you should chill out. Ahahaha…ha…a… 
Temperature does not start at zero.
Comcast activated the Emergency Alert System no less than six times between 5:30 pm and 8 pm last evening to tell me about the SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS and that thunderstorms produce LIGHTNING and WIND and you should GO INDOORS IMMEDIATELY.
Firstly, this is Pittsburgh. Second, it’s June. This is what happens in Pittsburgh in June. We get a month or so of wicked thunderstorms. Occasionally, although infrequently, there is a tornado.
Thirdly, I find it hilarious that the announcer on TV actually tells people to ‘GO INDOORS IMMEDIATELY’. Are that many people in Pittsburgh watching TV outside?
Fourthly, it is not necessary to have a new EAS broadcast every 20 minutes which my TV has no choice but to watch to tell me what fucking town the thunderstorm is in now as a minute by minute account that it is raining.
And then there’s the weather on the news, where they find it necessary to actually go live to a reporter in Greensburg (Dee Thompson!) who confirms that yes, it is raining and this is what rain looks like!
You can nitpick and say the temperature doubles since the reading doubles, but it makes no sense in measurement of heat. As an example making a comparison statement of a temperature of 1 degree compared to 10 degrees (its 10 times the temperature!)
C and F temps are basically a scale between two set points, freezing/boiling water.
Example = If I create a scale between my age 50 and my dog 10 then anybody else can use it as a reference for their age. My dog is 0, I’m now 40 and two teenagers may be 4 (14) and 8 (18) years old. By the weatherman’s example the older teen is “twice” as old as the younger.
I had to switch the morning news show I liked and had been watching for years because of the new weather bitch they got. They do the weather every ten minutes and the whore mentions, every ten minutes, what her surfing experience was like yesterday. The dumb whore will say something like, “It’s going to be a beutiful day today like it was yesterday when I was surfing and the waves were fantastic.” Ten minutes later. “There is a slight chance of rain later in the week and I hope it doesn’t mess up the waves because they were perfect yesterday.” Ok bitch we get it. We all know we live in a coastal city and we all figured out the first 2 minutes of your first broadcast that you surf. Now shut the fuck up and tell me what the weather is going to be.
And the other thing that made me change to another news show was what the bitch calls fog. At first she started saying, “Oh the fog is socking us in so be careful driving this morning.” What the fuck does that mean? And she says it every ten minutes. Sock sock sock sock sock sock. After awhile the whore thought she’d get all cute. When they would show a picture of one of the freeways and you could see the fog she would say, “Wow look at that sockiness.” Its not fucking sockiness you cumbucket its fucking fog for fuck’s sake.
Thankfully the show I watch now has an older gentleman who is very professional and gets straight to the point.
Ok, I feel better now after getting that off my chest.
I think I see what you’re saying, but your example appears flawed. In the case of both Fahrenheit and Celsius systems, the temperature reading is based on fixed points (freezing and boiling points of water), but in your example you’ve got two dissimilar points (your age and the dog’s age) that you’re then using to measure other ages. That’s not the case regarding air temperature.
I guess I’m still stuck on this.
Our local weatherguys are pretty decent. What I hate is Ditzy Anchor Girl who comments on the weather and to her, EVERY increase in temperature is good news.
Weather guy: It was 90 today and tomorrow should be 95.
Ditzy Anchor Girl: Ooooh that’s great!
Hey Ditzy, come mow my lawn when it’s 95 and tell me how wonderful that temperature is.
The temperature (number) doubled, but the amount of heat hasn’t, so it’s not twice as hot. It could be right or wrong depending on the wording. Either way it’s kind of silly.
Well, that’s sorta where I was going … the amount of heat in the air might not have doubled, but the reading (temperature) has, which is apparently what the weatherman said. Seems a silly thing to get worked up about, to me.
Look at it this way. If you’re on the beach and notice that the tide has risen from 2 inches above the low water mark to 4 inches above the low water mark, has the ocean doubled? I don’t think so.