Not too bad, but could be much better.

It bothers me that the local on the 8s is often not available at that time. It seems there are an awful lot of "Storm Stories" or "It Could Happen Tomorrow".
I tune in the Weather Channel to see THE WEATHER.

Most of the time, the music background is either extremely monotonous or extremely nerve wracking. Light classical or easy listening music would be much more pleasant.

I remember it was nothing but the weather channel now it's turned into another program that went downhill. It's almost like MTv more cable crap then what the program is suppose to be. It's really sad commercial's ,nonweather show's, movie's, commercial's etc etc. Have the time they don't look like there confident as to what there forecasting (except for some of the vets that have been on there for awhile. Bottom line they get 1 sad star!

-Soldier Ft Dix,Nj

The Weather Channel was once a triumphant network. Like many cable networks founded in the 1980s, it was launched with a singular purpose: weather 24/7. And, through the 80s and 90s, it was awesome. As someone looking to enter the field of TV weather, I was a loyal viewer in the 90s when I was in middle and high school. During that time, the maps were great, the music and local forecasts dependable, and most importantly, the weather was omnipresent and the analysis fascinating and detailed.

Flash forward to 2009. One indication I see of when a TV network begins to decay is to look at its logo. Once stylish and rounded, it is now flat with completely lowercase text on a bland, monochromatic square. But, again, a bad logo can be saved with good content. Sadly, that is gone.

First and foremost, The Weather Channel is now. SHOWING. MOVIES!!! This is crazy. Bill Cosby once wisely said that the Weather Channel has no reruns. Weather is ALWAYS happening. Now, they show movies that aren't even related to weather like "Misery." And, of course, they have their documentaries--sometimes airing during severe weather events!

Not to mention many of my favorite On-Camera talent is gone. No more Sharon Resultan. No more Rich Johnson. And, don't get me started on how Al Roker's show is insanely overexposed and overadvertised--not to mention it contains news and business stories--NOT JUST WEATHER!

Although thankfully its "Forecast Earth" unit is no more, it still seems to buy into the man-made global warming hoax.

There are times that its old purpose shines through, but unlike the old days, you can't just tune in any time and get some great weather.

Always wrong on what the weather will be like everyday..
Like one day the forcast was called for mostly sunny and no rain, and it was suppose to be cooler than it turned out to be by like 10 degrees or more and what happiened,it rained that day..
They can't get one day right!!
Plus lol I go to the website would'nt you know its info of the weather has been change to what was happiening as for raining but not till it was happiening lol..
Weather channel suxx ass...

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One can only digest "I wake up with Al" for so long. Would be a great time for someone else to step up and offer a channel featuring weather since there wouldn't be much competition. By the way I've been a fan of The Weather Channel for at least 15 years but not any more.

NBC has officially destroyed The Weather Channel. I've been a fan of TWC since its very beginning. I've even visited their headquarters and have been part of focus groups for them. But after integrating their recent purchase with the rest of their news and entertainment platforms, NBC has rendered it unwatchable as far as I am concerned. When I turn to it now, instead of getting solid weather information, I now get Al Roker hawking movies, celebrity gossip, and other useless trivia. And when you think it can't get worse, you then get force-fed snippets of MSNBC, the lowest rated and absolute worst of the cable news networks.

The other day, one of their twits actually said "Regional flooding is the result of rain". Really? My wife quipped, "They really have dumbed it down, haven't they!"

Does NBC not understand that people watch TWC for weather info? If I had wanted movie hype and insipid celebrity crap, I'd turn to the dozen other channels that exclusively spew it. If I wanted MSNBC or CNBC, I'd tune to MSNBC or CNBC. I'm actually getting more relevant weather news on CNN than TWC now.

I can only assume that NBC's strategy is to "enhance" TWC for use as background noise in airports, lobbies, elevators, offices, etc. What they don't seem to understand is that there are plenty of other background noise channels to choose from. The people who choose TWC for that function did so exactly because it wasn't like the dozens of other channels that spew up mostly noise.

I only hope that someone out there sees this and is working on an alternative, because TWC is now unwatchable.

Our family has watched the TWC since it's inception. Lately it appears that all it's for is the promotion of MSNBC which is the biggest propaganda machine for the far left in the country. From now on, when we need weather forcasts, we'll go to the internet or get it from our local stations. By the way, we were getting sick of the "Adventures of Jim Cantore".

They seem to be fascinated with Hurricanes. I mean come on they are huge storms but they affect a very small part of the country. This morning somebody said there was a possible large storm and that will be exciting. Exciting? Please give me a break. Was Katrina exciting? Not for the folks in Louisiana. Sheezzz how about covering the rest of the country in such orgasmic detail!!

I only give them the 2nd star for the weather babes!!

I can't believe the direction TWC has taken recently. Living on the east coast of florida, I'm very in tune to the Atlantic and monitoring the action there. While watching TWC channel recently, I got little information due to the fact that they had to play a ridiculous commercial comparing Jim Cantore as a professional athlete..."the undisputed weather champion". It was an overdramatic display of pure humor. He's a meterologist for god sake. Then, another commercial for Greg Forbes comparing him to a rap artist..."Storm Master G". Unbelieveably retarded. The worst was watching their new segment called "Wake Up With Al". Abrams (who obviously slept her way to the top) and Bettes (same) and Al Roker (incredibly obnoxious) were joking around in such a bizarre way, I thought I was watching some weird kids show. They were yelling "WUWA" and telling each other how great they are. Very, very odd. I'm really over the ego trip with this channel. They need to keep telling us how great they are. "You're great"..."no, YOU'RE great"..."NO, YOU'RE GREAT"...give me a freakin break.
They need to get back to basics. They are a weather channel, not VH-1.

It is manipulative and sensationalist. I have stopped watching and get my weather easily online at accuweather. If the weather channel actually showed "the weather" it wouldn't be so bad...only inaccurate forecasts. But they show that stupid Jim Cantore sitting in the middle of some lame storm or that stupid storm stories.

Also, what's up with the new MSNBC news? If I wanted that I would go to a real news channel. TWC is obviously ratings starved.

And lastly I will never forget this line when Vortex 2 had not dicovered any tornados. "Oh, maybe next time (soon as they were travelling into Okalahoma) we'll spot some." Did you get that? Tornados kill people you morons! The tragic weather matters over people to these people...don't kid yourself. It shows clearly in the Neuro linguistics.

TWC needs a massive ENEMA!

I started watching the Weather Channel when it first came on years ago. Back then, they showed very decent radar loops that were large enough that a viewer could see the general area of the specific state they lived in. The loops were slow enough that you could see some detail, and "back then" they showed at least 5 repeated loops before going to the next area of the USA.

Thank goodness P. Allen Smith is gone. Please also dump the guy who gives backyard tips. STICK TO WEATHER... My local TV stations do a better job (and I live in Hicksville) but they only do weather at 6 and 10 PM.

These days, they only show 2 loops and they are so DAMNED ZOOMED OUT that it is impossible to figure out the weather event in a small area. Plus, the idiot running the loop must be on "speed" because the loop is too fast.

To show a radar loop from south of Cuba to North Dakota defeats the purpose of showing a radar image at all. I wish they would go back to showing smaller (zoomed-in) radar data.

Hey TWC, Cut the CRAP and give yourself a well deserved ENEMA. You are full of CRAP.
"Storm Stories" is CRAP.
"It Could Happen Tomorrow" is SUPER CRAP
"When Weather Changed History" is WORSE THAN CRAP
"Full Force Nature" is CRAP
" Tornado Hunt" Is doo-doo too
Danny Lipford, "Project Of The Week."

Maybe AccuWeather will launch a weather "channel" and just do the basics. TWC needs competition.

TWC needs a massive ENEMA in a mighty big way because of all the CRAP... Maybe instead of being called, TWC it should be called TMC (The Manure Channel) because of all the crap.

IIRC, one of my first posts here was about TWC and Miss Heidi Cullen. I seem to recall the words twat, bullshit, morons, fucking worthless, skanks and tactical nukes being frequently mentioned.

I still think it's worthless shit, though I do drop by ocassionally, mainly to see which one of the hoes is currently pregnant. Still waiting for Mike Bettes to show up in a maternity dress.

What irritates me most is the hokey interactions between the tramps. Can you say "frightenlingly overacted"? Here's an example. "Vivian, did you know that the air in tropical climates has a higher concentration of water in it than the air in say, the antarctic? I did not know that Jennifer! That's amazing! I'm sure our folks in Tampa might find that informing!". *camerman pans to Goodloe reaching for his quart bottle of oxy*

Not to say that there aren't one or two good things about TWC. Jim Cantore is friggin' certifiable. About the only place he hasn't reported from is inside a tornado and Goodloe doesn't have that "I'm just positively giddy over reporting the weather to you" look about him like most of the other animatrons do. Frankly, he usually looks like he wants to scale the wall and run for his fucking life.

As for Culleningus, she's not longer with the show. She's too busy trying to gather evidence of the relationship between bear shit and sun spot cycles.

Over to you, Kelly!

This channel can't even give an accurate forecast (ie.. the local on the 8's), and they dwell more on the east coast and northeast and southeast. They don't even know the geographic United States. I can get an more accurate weather forecast from my dog.

The Grape Tomato Search

... maybe they should try a produce market?

Like many commercial information outlets, The Weather Channel's favorite story is themselves.

For weeks, even casual viewers have been saturated with their on-air personalities ( these are NOT meteorologists ) covering their coverage. They've deployed SO MANY on-air personalities, SO MANY tracker vehicles, SO MUCH technology, and are covering SO MANY states where tornadoes may occur in A VERY HIGH PROBABILITY at this time of year, and are CONTINUING TO COVER this for us, the viewers.

To date, they haven't found a single grape tomato.

Try NOAA, the government agency that monitors the actual weather, if you wish to be informed. Or any other source that is geared to the working-mans need for useful weather information. ( Beach forecast? ... c'mon, I WORK for a living )

Call your cable operator and let them know that you consider The Weather Channel to be a self-serving, self-promoting commercial enterprise masquerading as an information network that serves a public purpose. Tell them that you've written to the FCC to tell them the same.

The on-air personalities that TWC employs seem more like National Geography Bee washouts than actual weather scientists, taking obvious glee when they can point to the weather radar, turn to the camera and say something like: "... and right HERE, near PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, you might expect some high winds or even HAIL in the next hour or so. ... ) I seriously doubt that any of these people could hold a job with NOAA, or even FIND Paducah without a teleprompter.

... heck, I doubt they could even spell NOAA.

They never seem to talk about Tennessee, especially West TN where i'm from. If they show the Memphis Radar, they show it for 2 seconds and then they go back and talk about Atlanta again. Even though I don't live in the West, they never talk about it, EVER!!!!! It's as if Atlanta is the only city in the US!! Also, they show silly show like "It Could Happen Tommorrow" while sometimes they are okay, I feel for those people in tiny towns who don't have a local news station who are getting an F5 tornado while "It Could Happen Tom." talks about a tornado hitting Dallas or something and they have no way of knowing about the storm. Then the next day on TWC, they talk about "a small town in Kansas is wiped out due to an F5 tornado hitting the area. "
And then they act all suprised.

I am a weather geek so I LOVE the Weather Channel.  I find it so interesting!!!

This channel is terrible. This should be called the Dixieland Weather Channel or the Southern Weather Channel. They dwell on the South constantly, then once in a while they will talk about the Eastern Seaboard and even less about the Midwest. It can be blizzard conditions all over the West and they will barely talk about it. I timed them once. In one hour, there was 30 minutes of forecasting going on. 20 of it was on the South and some minor rain storm, about five was on the Eastern Seaboard, three was on the Midwest, and one was on the Mountain West while completely bypassing the West Coast. There was a severe blizzard all over Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. I barely saw the white on the map and they scrolled over to some little rain storm in Louisiana and Texas that wasn't even a thuderstorm much less tornado-producing or hurricane-producing (this was December). Hey Weather Channel, the United States of America includes more than just the South. How many people have gotten killed because they have had to guess what the weather might be in the west. I don't care if you are in Atlanta, there are other places in this nation. Got it? *If you are going to dwell on the South then can the rest of us get our own channel?

Why isn't 'Local on the 8's' on at every "8?"
I don't want to see old tornado footage and hear the chasers stories.

Did anyone catch Alexandra and Jim flirting on the air heavily EVERY night! "Oh Jimmy!" and "I now pass it to the beautiful Alexandra!" I hear Jim the drama queen isnt wearing a wedding ring anymore and see Alexandra has a bun in the oven.Wouldnt surprise me if the bun was Jim's. Is Sandra even married?? I come across all these blogs for the first time looking for info on hot ass Jeanetta Jones and agree with all you guys wrote. I want my local on the 8's back. Not the golf forcast.

It's trying to be MTV for old people. We don't need talk show sets and fake antics. We don't need doom and gloom, fear sells "It could happen tomorrow" or "Storm Stories". We need weather info. Watch box just issued for thses counties etc...

I was an Atmospheric Science student at university X. For a major percentage of our grade, the class had to participate in a weather forecasting contest for 2 random United States cities and the city that university X was located. As students, we had access to maps, radar, METAR data, models, etc. Once the forecasts were submitted they were put up against forecasts and forecasters from other schools and such in the US. As you all might have predicted, the Weather Channel forecasts was always ranked very low on the list, with myself and many of my classmates laying a beating on their terrible forecast. Our professor had even instructed the class to watch the WC and record all the errors in their forecasts. It's a shame that the WC "weather professionals" can't get right what a bunch of students can.
I am a personal advocate of collecting data from multiple CREDIBLE sources and making my own prediction. Of course, not everyone is equipped to do this. I will, however, recommend the National Weather Service.

i watch when needed.

The Weather Channel is rarely accurate for our area -- if it even discusses the weather for this region at all. Usually we get skipped right over, as if half the state doesn't exist. The only time I watch TWC is if they have a tornado/hurricane documentary on. I found "Wunderground" online and use it to check the weather & get updates. So much more accurate and lots more info available to meteorology lovers. The Weather Channel's website displays golf tips instead of giving me details about the weather -- wtf is that about??

This is kind of how I used to treat my god. When it was sunshiney, I didn't watch. When the storms came, I was glued to the TV.

It is always wrong, lol... but it still helps a lil.

how would you rate the weather channel bad? mother nature is a dangerous one.

nono

The Weather Channel's biggest hang-up is their catering to geographically large markets (which in itself would be OK if they put some thought into it) combined their obvious hatred of the north. How many times did I hear one of their commentators rag on the North East about a second or third day of rain when they completely ignore far, far worse weather elsewhere, especially down south. Its just too obvious.

Hey, I'm tired of left wingers and right wingers making political comments about The Weather Channel... Stick to the subject of how lousy The Weather Channel has gotten in the past couple of years! I don't care if you do or don't believe in global warming. Go debate somewhere else.

One thing we ALL can probably agree on however... The Weather Channel has lost it's soul and is now trying to be "all things to all people," with silly programing about "backyard tips, health tips, pet tips..." The list goes on.

This afternoon I'm outside working in my yard. Geeze, the sky is looking very suspicious, so I run inside to watch the Weather Channel. I'm trying to determine if I need to put up all my stuff, because I don't want to leave some things outside if it is going to rain, storm, hail or dump frogs...

I switch on TV, tune in The Weather Channel... OH GAWD, their idiot program "IT COULD HAPPEN TOMORROW" is on. HELL, I need info about what is REALLY going to happen, not some garbage about how a tsunami might impact the mating population of the lesser known red billed bald chicken of Idaho.

Then there is "STORM STORIES." I hate Storm Stories about as much as I hate Billy Mays... And I hate Billy Mays more than Satan himself.

Then, The Weather CHannel decides to give us "golf forecasts" as if we "the viewing public" are too stupid to know if the weather is conducive to golfing, or NASCAR, or picking peaches... Forget the darned "lifestyle forecast. JUST STICK TO THE BASICS... Who in the hell is making up these weird programing decisions for The Weather Channel?

AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THE RADAR AT 8 MINUTES PAST THE HOUR? Now when I watch their radar sweep, I see a scan that goes from Montana to Cuba. The detail is so small, you can't get a good idea of what counties in your viewing region might be impacted from a storm. THEY USED TO SHOW JUST A COUPLE OF STATES WHERE YOU COULD DETERMINE WHERE THE HEAVY STUFF WAS IN RELATION TO WHERE YOU LIVE, but now, you have to look at such a large chunk of real estate (MONTANA TO CUBA) that you have no idea what is on the radar in your "neck of the woods."

These days, you can bet next time I'm working in my yard, or planning my weekend, I'll get on-line and check out ACCU-WEATHER.COM. At least these folks stick to the basics and don't try to compete against regular TV shows...

(I do have one weakness for Dr. Anna Marie... they can put her on any time they want and I'd be happy...)

This channel is a piece of shite! I would give it ZERO stars if I could. Here's an angry letter I sent them this evening:

"I used to be able to turn to TWC for up to date weather info, especially in times of severe weather, but no more. Things first began to go downhill when you began to play the Storm Stories program. Many times it was on when severe weather was in my area! In other instances a warning would be scrolling along the bottom, but hell if I even knew where the storm was or where it was going because that damned program was on! Even when one of these inane programs, Storm Stories or otherwise, isn't on, trying to see the radar on your channel is impossible. Take this evening for example; there is severe weather in my area again, so naturally I wish to see the radar. Unfortunately, the only time you fools have shown it is during the Local Forecast, and there it is never completely up to date. Sure, I can go online and see my radar, but there it is never up to date either! In fact, it was nearly an hour off earlier this evening. That is pathetic. You know what else is pathetic? I have been watching your channel on television for a better portion of the night and not once, outside of the lacking Local Forecast, have I seen the radar. Oh, but I HAVE seen the severe outlook, and whatever else outlooks, A MILLION FRIGGING TIMES! Excuse the hell out of me, but when there is severe weather I want to know what's going on NOW, not what's going to happen tomorrow (it's usually not right anyway), not what's supposedly going to happen next friggin' week, but what's going on NOW."

I was so worked up that I totally forgot to mention the Seven Day Forecast that changes by the hour. I remember one time they had a temp. of 90 degrees w/ sun, etc. forecasted for this particular day, and an hour later that 90 degree day turned into a 60 degree day with rain! Seriously, who the hell is forecasting there? Stupid fucks.

how about no stars! the weather channel sucks! did i say sucks, well i mean the wheather channel licks the sweat off a dead mans balls. i am so excited to know the forecast for yesterday i could shit. thank god they know all about yesterdays weather. now it's about kite bording? WTF??? next time i need the weather i'll just lick my thumb and hold it in the air. what a fucking joke....

The Weather Channel is for sale.

***News Flash***  John Coleman wants to sue Al Gore for fraud. Coleman, who founded the Weather Channel in 1982, thinks taking legal action against Al Gore would be a great "vehicle to finally put some light on the fraud of global warming." Coleman rejects the notion that people must take drastic actions to reduce their energy use.

I think it's more like the whether channel. You never no whether there's gonna be a commerical or an actual forecast on when you turn it there. No they gone all green. Give me a break. Why don't you take yourself a little more serious. Jeez! Just put some busty ditz or some dork who looks like Dallas Rains up there and say what the weather might be.

TWC is a, well, laughable!  First, let me say I now live in a area that due to "terrain" issues, and remoteness, I can no longer get them on TV...neither cable, nor satellite.  However, when I could get them, I just simply stopped watching.  IF YOU WANT RELIABLE, up to date, locale specific(I mean right down to the little "burgh" you live in), totally non-commercial weather, go to NOAA's weather site on the web.  Just as good, but with a little advertising, is The Weather Underground, also on the web.  TWC is never up to date.  They are for the most part unreliable.  They are so interested in the advertising dollar that they are motivated by nothing more.  Oh, and if you don't have high speed internet access, and/or are unwilling to PAY THEM for their content without advertising, well don't even bother with the slowness of their website....the seven day outlook will have passed before you can even get to it due to the TONS of miserable moving graphics advertisements.....CA-Ching!!  And other thing, while I'm on a rant....(LOL!)....don't ever bother attempting to contact them via e-mail, as I have done on at least 3 ocassions.....THEY DO NOT respond.....I guess because you ain't paying them to read your email(?).  For those who DO chose to still watch them, the challenge is on....try the other two "weather services" that I have pointed out above, and tell me WHO is propelled by reliability, timeliness, etc.  Then sit back and watch TWC.  Oh, and BTW, get out a stop watch while you're watching and see how much useful weather content you're getting, and how much advertising you are bombarded with each hour.  Now there....WHEWWW!  Heheeee.

You would think that you could turn to the weather channel to view, well the weather. But not anymore! I can't tell you how many times I have wanted to see the weather and tuned in only to have storm stories or It Could Happen Tomorrow on... This shit is ridiculous and I hope some people get fired for this horrible idea. If I wanted to see some programing like that I would have turned to TLC or the History channel or something of that nature. Another thing how come TWC is so horrible with their forecasting lately? I mean why even predict 7 days out when it is not even going to be close to what they are predicting when the time comes? They have really gone downhill very quickly and need to make some drastic changes before I start tuning in again.

If it wasn't bad enough that they scale back their weather coverage for sensationalism (we will all die from the hypothesis of global warming or Dallas will be swallowed by an F5 tornado and Memphis will be destroyed by an earthquake)but their weather forecasts are an abomination.

I wish I had a dollar for every time they claimed Philiadelphia would be sunny and clear only to have it socked in by low clouds and visibility. Note to Heidi Cullen, how are we supposed to believe in global warming when your very channel cant even get a same day forecast correct?

The biggest problem is Heidi Cullen bringing her cancerous politics and paranoia on the channel. I have spoken to more then a few aircraft dispatchers who's dispatch office went from having the weather channel on their main tv to replacing it with a radar loop due to the wx channel being so inaccurate.

i watch the weather channel every morn

You would expect a channel dedicated to the weather to be an information service first, entertainment second...but TWC is ridiculously shallow in its coverage and the parade of personalities pretending to be professionals are often clueless: for instance, we have a terrible drought here in the Northeast but their presenters continue to exclaim--with a smile frozen on their faces--that "it's another gorgeous day." I expect more from a network claiming to be my best source for weather information: I expect them to say "for those who love the sun, you're going to love it, but a serious drought continues" or something along those lines.

And, shame on them, the Katrina coverage--from forecasting to aftermath--was better reported by other news outlets.

It's time to pull the plug on The Weather Channel.

You said it Freddie!

They sure do suck ass. The lack of actual weather coverage is apalling. Why don't they just fucking give it up? I know we used to watch all of the time, and turn to them when we wanted to know what was going on weather-wise. Not any more.. it is a waste of time to try and actually get weather news from them.

THEY SUCK ASS

The Weather Channel is almost unbearable this year. First off, who has decided that pink is the "in color" this year? Even down to the lip stick that the males need to be seen in... I had to check my TV 10x's to see if my digital service might be wacked out.

Now the weather. It is common place to see pictures that are over 24 hours old. This is Jamaica getting hit hard by Dean. That was yesterday's news. We want to know what is happening NOW. It is common place hour after hour to show the same footage. HELLO... CALL someone... Phone interviews would be better. In a world of highspeed giving instant access to information it is insulting to the viewers and to the potential of the purpose it was intended for. Weather effects lives today!! This is something new with them. Last year they were more together.

I just love how it is important to them to mention 15 times an hour about the fact they have 100 Meteorologists. Yet their Storm Chasers aren't even put close to where the rest of the planet would suggest they be to do accurate reporting. Case in point; Montego Bay vs. Kingston to report on Dean? Last I checked that was the wrong side of the island. On the bright side they do have a nice golf course. Don't get me wrong I appreciate the danger and know that they are specially trained for that activity; just never in the right spot for reporting purposes.

The weather Channel is unwatchable............period. If you wanted idiot level weather forecasting all you had to do was watch your local network news. Now, you can just turn on the weather channel and get 24 hours of weather idiots and useless programming. Get rid of the "talent" and just split the screen into four and constantly rotate jet stream, temperature,enhanced radar, Doppler for the country. Rotate the images in relation to quadrants of the country specific to the minutes on the clock........sorta what they used to do without the morons. Forecast your own weather..... It would certainly be more accurate and a hell of a lot more watchable. FTWC!

I prefer to get my weather from Weather Underground. I get my national maps at a glance with easy access to jet stream forecasts and animated national sweeps and then access my state and local forecasts I can get live radar sweeps that can be zoomed in show my neighborhood if I want.... Can't beat it!

I give them a star cause you can't give them a zero!

Once upon a time 'TWC' was a very good source for weather info when it was needed in an impromptu manner. However, that is not the case anymore. TWC is just a shell of it's former self. It is now nothing more than a source of infotainment and doomsday propaganda.

Probably was of the worst thing that happened was the hiring of Heidi Cullen who is an obvious shill for the U.N. and their 'man-made' global warming propaganda. It's very easy to understand that she has been hired to be a fear-mongerer in a very sad attempt to brain-wash the populace and frighten them into submission. Her comment that all meteorologists who don't accept the man-made G.W. theory should have their weather seals stripped crossed the line and was absurd. She is obviously very desperate to have her agenda accepted and will go to great heights to shove it down everyones' throat.

Yesterday, there were severe storms approaching my area, so I did what I normally do and turn on TWC to get a radar loop. But, there was none, not even the traditional 'local on the 8s.' Instead, I encountered 'Forecast Earth' which is a total waste of airtime.

As far as I'm concerned, TWC can just wither away to nothing because it is about worthless now. Only the occasional coverage of hurricanes and blizzards is about all they're good for.

Another thing is the fact that they charge for an online radar loop which used to free. TWC, your greed will be your demise. Besides, Joe Bastardi has a much more accurate and user friendly site. He sells subscriptions, but at least he doesn't charge for a simple radar loop.

TWC, it's a damn shame what you've become.

Very good points. I too wondered how much money it was costing TWC to send weather teams to cover sporting events, NASCAR races and silly things like this. I think 90% of us who watch The Weather Channel know this is primarily a technological process, where weather details are fundamentally dependent on data that COMES INTO the offices in Atlanta. I wish the "Talent" would stay in Atlanta and do the weather, rather than go off on adventures (that ultimatley drive up the cost of doing business and require MORE ADVERTISING TIME to pay the travel expenses... It must be very expensive to send these teams out on the road (camera crews, producers, etc) and house them in hotels, feed them (expense accounts) and God only knows what it costs to rent or send a satellite truck out so the "talent' can get a feed back to Atlanta... Then of course the extra manpower needed to research, edit, produce and buy rights to video for STORM STORIES, and the worst IT COULD HAPPEN TOMORROW! If memory served me correct, TWC aired a "IT COULD HAPPEN TOMORROW" show in the dead of Winter about hurricanes (yea, right! a hurricane in December? IT COULDN'T HAPPEN TOMORROW! (Maybe they need to produce a new series entitled, IT COULD HAPPEN NEXT SUMMER! :( P. ALLEN SMITH... nice guy, interesting "fillers" but he belongs on the GARDEN CHANNEL... The guy who has tips about backyard decks and cleaning your BBQ grill, he belongs either on the Outdoor Channel or the Food Channel... and if I see one of TWC folks giving tips about skin cancer, I'll run outside naked at high noon because this is driving me crazy. Our local TV stations OVERLOAD us with suntan tips, UV ray protection each season that only blind, deaf-mute homeless person not having any contact with the outside world wouldn't know about putting on a sun-screen...

Too much talk, not enough ACCURATE weather forecasting. The 7-day forecast is a friggin' joke...

I used to be a Weather Channel junkie, but when they started trying to be an "entertainment" group, I don't watch it much these days. All these silly "specials" about golfing, NASCAR weather (the list goes on and on and on!) I think if they stuck to the basics, I'd be a viewer again. Now, I'm so mad at The Weather Channel, I even boycott their website and strictly go with AccuWeather.com.

Fills a niche and is very useful. I always hate to talk about the weather, but sometimes it's necessary.

Constantly inaccurate.

Hehe, It's my first reading this board...you guys (and girls crack me up!) I think it's a cool channel, always did like the music (well' most of it) during local on the 8's. Can someone please tell me who the guitarist is lately? I Gotta have some of that music! It's got a crunchy almost a "Steely Dan" type of feel with some southern licks here and there- hell, I can't wait for the local on the 8"s to come on just to jam! -- Thanks folks! Livestring

Dave and Hillary, I miss you at night. You two were so cute together. Dave, you have lost so very much weight. What happened, are you okay? I hope so. I will keep you in my prayers.

As a long time storm spotter I totally agree with the comments regarding TWC's seemingly loss of focus. Also, is it just Ghost123 and me, but Stephanie Abrams is just plain ugly (great rack or not) !! Kristina Abernathy has put on some pounds since getting married a few years back. Alexandra Steele is just plain trash--get her off the air! J. Lo and Heather Tesch and so classy it really isn't fair to the other femail OCM's !!