ATTN: Severe Weather

[Spring Rubber]

Dear Severe Weather,


For the sake of The Weather Channel, please only occur on weekdays, not weekends.


Thank you very much for your cooperation,

Steve

[NicoleWasHere]

lolwut   

[Localonthe8s]

Does this really need its own topic?

[wxmediafan]

Dear Severe Weather,


For the sake of The Weather Channel, please only occur on weekdays, not weekends.


Thank you very much for your cooperation,

Steve

Can you please elaborate?

I don't quite understand the point of this...

[tpirfan28]

He means that TWC virtually never preempts long-form programming on the weekends to cover current weather.  Thus, weather needs to occur during weekdays to accommodate TWC.

[Al]

it's a joke basically.   

[Spring Rubber]

Kind of, but it's serious at the same time.

[mattk]

Kind of, but it's serious at the same time.

For those of you that have been under a rock for the weekend, Chicago was hit by tornadoes yesterday (one quite large: half-mile wide). TWC NEVER once stopped the Forecast Earth episode they had on. That's what Spring Rubber is referring to.

I was upset about this yesterday also. I must say though, FOX-32 did a very good job yesterday reporting the conditions. The preempted the Cubs game and Seinfeld to report on the storm, and stayed with it until it hit Lake Michigan in NW Indiana. It reminded me a little bit of the 1999 Moore, OK F5 tornado with the type of coverage, but thankfully not nearly as severe.

[Stephen]

TWC NEVER once stopped the Forecast Earth episode they had on. That's what Spring Rubber is referring to.

According to Gil, they did dual-feed coverage.

[mattk]

TWC NEVER once stopped the Forecast Earth episode they had on. That's what Spring Rubber is referring to.

According to Gil, they did dual-feed coverage.

Not while I was watching at the top and bottom of the hour during FE.

[tpirfan28]

Never did here, and while we weren't directly affected, we were under the same watch area, and that's prompted the dual-feed before.

[wxmediafan]

Remember, TWC is a national network, they can't cator to everyone.  At least you have other sources than TWC

[lfmusiclover]

I think they need to cover any severe weather that is occurring, anywhere in the country. If its severe (see potentially dangerous, see potentially life threatening), then it needs to be covered in favor of whatever garbage they'd likely be showing instead.

[Spring Rubber]

They need more meteorologists; I think part of the reason they've been preempting less on weekends is that there are only two shifts of OCMs available from 2PM ET all the way until 4:30 AM ET. Something needs to be done about this.

[NYCTWCjunkie]

Perfect example for today was at 5:00 PM Eastern Time where Mike Seidel was seen staring into the camera for about 30 seconds without saying a word and then The Weather Channel went right to Forecast Earth. I'm thinking, "Hello!". Our local newscasts aren't on for another hour and we don't get any severe weather updates by watching yet anothe re-airing of yesterday's Forecast Earth episode? That's just brutal.

I had some heavy thunderstorms move through here around that point or just before that and The Weather Channel should've done their job by giving New York City metropolitan area viewers live coverage to keep us informed.

EDIT: They must've listened to me telepathically... The Weather Channel preempted their 7:00 PM re-airing of Forecast Earth with a severe weather update. Allieujah.