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Everything Else TWC / Re: When did you become interested in The Weather Channel?
« on: January 03, 2009, 10:35:23 PM »I also, for some reason, remember the radars on the local forecast using shades of blue instead of shades of green. Maybe I was crazy when I was 8-9 years old...Yeah, IIRC in 1999 they were doing some experiment on using as much blue as possible on their maps. The precip colors on other maps (weekly planner, travel, precip forecast, etc) were also blue. I never understood the point of it, but it was pretty interesting.
I first discovered TWC sometime around 1997, but 1999 was when I started following TWC and watching it often. I watched it heavily that year as we had a lot of severe weather and very hot temperatures that year (almost everyday in July was in the 90's). From 2000-2002 I didn't watch TWC all that much (due to my huge Pokemon interest), and then started watching it again by 2002. I remember my XL was upgraded around early 2002, but it had several glitches, like using the old banner on the regional forecast and a black background on the metro forecasts. This was fixed by the end of the year. 2003 was when I started recording TWC. IMO, TWC started going downhill in late 2006, when the formatting became really unstable and they started using generic "on-the-fly" openers instead of using the show's own graphics. My "golden age" of TWC is from March 1998- Late 2004, but it was still good until early-mid 2007.
