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I was reading a report on Beryl moving along the US east coast a few minutes ago.
Looking at the map to the upper left, it strikes me that the big news of this article should be that this storm is going hit Nova Scotia full-on. Instead, the article is all about Beryl being a non-event on the US eastern seaboard. WTF?!
I admit it: I've always been really annoyed at schizoid TV weather forecasts that clearly show satellite photos of all of Canada & the US to indicate ugliness crossing the border, but then reduce their tactical diagrams to the US only, showing blackness where Canada sits. Do they think a blizzard system moving south from the Canadian prairies simply materializes out of nothingness at the US-Canada border? Do they think that just because a storm or flood crest moves north of the contiguous 48 that it no longer exists?
Weather doesn't follow nice, convenient international borders or boundaries. Meteorologists better than most know that these are systems which are influenced by broad areas of the planet. Where does this bury-our-head-in-the-sand reporting come from?
*Rant mode off.*
*Well, OK, rant mode reduced somewhat.*
I was reading a report on Beryl moving along the US east coast a few minutes ago.
Looking at the map to the upper left, it strikes me that the big news of this article should be that this storm is going hit Nova Scotia full-on. Instead, the article is all about Beryl being a non-event on the US eastern seaboard. WTF?!
I admit it: I've always been really annoyed at schizoid TV weather forecasts that clearly show satellite photos of all of Canada & the US to indicate ugliness crossing the border, but then reduce their tactical diagrams to the US only, showing blackness where Canada sits. Do they think a blizzard system moving south from the Canadian prairies simply materializes out of nothingness at the US-Canada border? Do they think that just because a storm or flood crest moves north of the contiguous 48 that it no longer exists?
Weather doesn't follow nice, convenient international borders or boundaries. Meteorologists better than most know that these are systems which are influenced by broad areas of the planet. Where does this bury-our-head-in-the-sand reporting come from?
*Rant mode off.*
*Well, OK, rant mode reduced somewhat.*
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Date: 2006-07-21 01:43 pm (UTC)Our weather services do cover a lot of the nearby states and popular travel destinations in the US simply because we go there.
I would assume that the border states show more stuff crossing the border than DC's weather.
Honestly though, I don't think most people here or there care about out-of-area weather patterns unless they move fast enough to affect them in 24 hours.
Right now, do you care about Nova Scotia, or are you focused on the weather in West Virginia and how hot (and sweaty) your weekend might be? :)