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Central PA Winter 2024/2025


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This should be concerning to all of us in Pa. and the rest of the country especially in severe weather situations. We might ridicule them at times, but when they break in a program to inform us of a tornado on the ground or flood warning that there is a needed to inform us all of a life or death situation. The reason for getting rid of tv station meteorologists is to save money. 

Just an FYI. The local media landscape is changing drastically and will continue to do so in the coming years. Many layoffs are to come, as smaller stations close down and local news becomes centralized to fewer locations. -Matthew

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2 minutes ago, mahantango#1 said:

This should be concerning to all of us in Pa. and the rest of the country especially in severe weather situations. We might ridicule them at times, but when they break in a program to inform us of a tornado on the ground or flood warning that there is a needed to inform us all of a life or death situation. The reason for getting rid of tv station meteorologists is to save money. 

Just an FYI. The local media landscape is changing drastically and will continue to do so in the coming years. Many layoffs are to come, as smaller stations close down and local news becomes centralized to fewer locations. -Matthew

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Something like this may lead to more DT like situations from the forecasters here.  Unlike law, the only thing needed here to give it a go is internet.  (No offense to Mets, there are already dozens of professional forecasters here who have no met creds)

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2 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

Something like this may lead to more DT like situations from the forecasters here.  Unlike law, the only thing needed here to give it a go is internet.  (No offense to Mets, there are already dozens of professional forecasters here who have no met creds)

Most of these local TV mets. know the area that they work in. They know the climatology of the area there forecasting for. Most have been on a certain tv station for many years. IMO this is a bad move by the media giants that own these stations.

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4 minutes ago, Voyager said:

Just saw this now. In light of this comment, may your snow tomorrow melt on contact :frostymelt:, and may your trash cans end up off the coast of Cape May... :twister:

I have a feeling someone in the burg is going to experience flash flooding without having a cloud in the sky or an echo on the radar.

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32 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

Something like this may lead to more DT like situations from the forecasters here.  Unlike law, the only thing needed here to give it a go is internet.  (No offense to Mets, there are already dozens of professional forecasters here who have no met creds)

Morning all. Early night for this old man.

Georgia? Ummm....I  hope that doesn't mean TWC.

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31 minutes ago, mahantango#1 said:

Most of these local TV mets. know the area that they work in. They know the climatology of the area there forecasting for. Most have been on a certain tv station for many years. IMO this is a bad move by the media giants that own these stations.

It is a terrible move but fits in with other industries especially the news industry which is working to remove a lot of human reporting.  

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2 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

It is a terrible move but fits in with other industries especially the news industry which is working to remove a lot of human reporting.  

It's everything nowadays, not just the news industry. Out in Phoenix, they have an fully operational fleet of autonomous taxi cabs that will take you wherever you want to go, and they're still working hard to perfect autonomous big rigs for the trucking industry.

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Ukie ensembles have shifted north a bit from last run putting MDT in the center instead of mby.

Canadians were fine by me for days even though being on the southern side. But with them taking the near inevitable north jog it'll be a problem if it continues.  Not that they will definitely be right, but all modeling is starting a north shift a bit.

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47 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

It is a terrible move but fits in with other industries especially the news industry which is working to remove a lot of human reporting.  

And then there's this -

Project 2025 also said the National Weather Service should become a “performance-based organization” held accountable for achieving specific results, even if the head of the agency must “deviate from government rules” to achieve those results.

Sounds like they'll be breaking out the retroactive Sharpie on the GFS maps.

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2 minutes ago, Festus said:

And then there's this -

Project 2025 also said the National Weather Service should become a “performance-based organization” held accountable for achieving specific results, even if the head of the agency must “deviate from government rules” to achieve those results.

Sounds like they'll be breaking out the retroactive Sharpie on the GFS maps.

Yep, the next 4 years may not be fun. 

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