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General Discussion / Tough country

« on: November 09, 2012, 03:58:18 PM »

I read where six Italian scientists were convicted of manslaughter for providing "inaccurate, incomplete and contradictory" information about tremors that led up to a massive earthquake in 2009. 

I wonder if meteorologists are insured and bonded for their jobs.     

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Everything Else TWC / Why is TWC getting involved in the NJ Governor - Atlantic City Mayor dispute

« on: October 30, 2012, 10:09:03 AM »

I think TWC should stay away from airing these types of reports. Just stick with the weather, and not try to become another news agency. I'm beginning to think TWC is forgetting their constituency. Maybe they are wanting to grow their constituency, but they are at risk in losing their loyal constituency over the years.  Just my .02.   

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OCMs & Personalities / OCM Work Schedules

« on: December 16, 2011, 08:52:11 AM »

It appears as if only around half of the OCMs have regular schedules. I realize the need for fill-ins but with the decrease in time of needed on-air OCMs, does TWC need as many OCMs as they have listed? 

Another thought is that maybe TWC website schedule is not correct. The Schedule has OCMs either working a 5-day shift or a weekend shift, nothing in between.

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OCMs & Personalities / Is there anyplace online where we can find what ex-OCMs are doing now?

« on: February 04, 2011, 06:38:43 PM »

I know a few, but that's about all. Where are Rick Griffen and Will Annen working? Some others I can think of are Sharon Resultan, Dave Swartz, Hillary Andrews, Melissa Barrington. Now we have Nicole Mitchell, Bill Keneely and Alexandra Steele. Are these people still in the industry?   

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General Weather Chat / In need of Weather Systems 101

« on: January 17, 2011, 05:05:56 PM »

Where do weather systems in various parts of the world originate? My understanding is that in the USA weather comes from the west to the east, except for hurricanes. Why does it do that and do those systems ever make it to Europe? Where would Europe weather originate? Asia, the Middle East, southern hemisphere Africa and South America?

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OCMs & Personalities / Speaking of salaries

« on: October 09, 2010, 09:04:34 AM »

Speculation is that high salaries may contribute to OCMs being let-go. What is the salary structure?   I imagine there is a tier structure in place where some of the top OCMs make signicant higher than the rest. Would there be 2 or three tiers. Plus longevity plays a part in higher salaries as well.

What would be the top 5, the median, and the bottom salaries in dollars?    I mean guessing something like 250k and up for the top, 100-125K for the medium, 70-80K for the bottom. 

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General Weather Chat / Katrina and NOLA

« on: August 30, 2010, 09:54:52 PM »

Admittedly, I live on the Mississippi coast and may be bias on this topic.

Why does NOLA get so much press coverage concerning Katrina, when in actuality it was the levees and not the hurricane that flooded the city. We evacuated the coast early Sunday morning driving up to stay with relatives. Needless to say, we were glued to TWC late that afternoon throughout the next day. Cantore was in Gulfport and Morrow was on the northshore above NOLA reporting. Morrow was reporting only light weather conditions from the storm. Cantore, on the other hand, was in real danger that night, even losing TWC weather van. The next morning there were several reports on TWC saying that NOLA dodged a bullet by being on the west side of the hurricane, escaping the worse. One or two days later the levees broke and flooding began. So, it was the levees being breech and not necessarily Katrina that caused the NOLA catastrophe. 

The flooding in NOLA was a major disaster event, but should it be blame completely on Katrina. If the levees did their jobs, NOLA would have been a non-factor in Katrina's history. 

Sorry for the rant.

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Which forum

« on: August 30, 2010, 11:28:40 AM »

to start a thread on whether Katrina and New Orleans have a direct relationship. 

I do not see a forum that seems suitable to that kind of thread topic.

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Login

« on: August 27, 2010, 09:16:11 PM »

How do I remain login on the forums whenever I visit?   

This has probably been asked before but it wasn't on the first page of this particular forum.

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OCMs & Personalities / Attempt at perspective

« on: August 25, 2010, 10:48:31 AM »

In putting things in perspective in regards to TWC dismissing many of the likeable long-time OCMs in recent years, can we blame the new ownership entirely for this management style. In a way it appears as if their is definitely a new managing perspective to the network, but hasn't TWC always had turnovers. I remember Rick Griffin and Will Annen as being somewhat stalwarts, but one day they got assigned to the overnight time slot, and eventually disappearing altogether. What happened there. There were others as well.

What was the primary reason for so many OCMs to leave throughout years? Was it them being let go or they were leaving for greener pastures?

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OCMs & Personalities / List by seniority

« on: August 22, 2010, 07:34:02 PM »

Many of the original and near original OCM are gone. I'm trying to list by seniority. I leaving out the newbies as I couldn't even venture a guess. How close I'm? (from most seniority)
 
1. Cantore, Morrow, Brown (lumping them together)
2. Mike Seidel
3. Kim Cunningham
4, Heather Tesch
5. Kelly Cass
6. Nicole Mitchell
7. Stephanie Abrams
8. Mike Bettes
9. Alexandra Steel
10. Nick Walker
11. Carl Parker
12. Adam Berg
13. Paul Goodloe
14. Jen Carfagno

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OCMs & Personalities / Pix of Bill Keneely at good-bye party

« on: August 20, 2010, 11:31:29 PM »

Go to Nicole Mitchell's Facebook page. They have a group picture of several OCMs.