Summary
I'm always intrigued by the amount of time spent talking about the weather, especially on the TV news. Local stations allocate a significant portion of their broadcasts to forecasting the next hours, days and sometimes weeks ahead. The sets are elaborate arrays of screens, computer gadgets, dials, radar images and other generally unfathomable paraphernalia.
At the slightest indication of unusual rain, snow, wind or any other natural meteorological phenomena, the stations break into regular broadcasts with an ominous beep and scroll across the bottom of the screen details of what is about to happen.See the full content of this document
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Get to Know Meteorology -- On Its Own Terms
If the event is predicated to be beyond a normal rain, snow or wind they might even suspend the regular program and spend considerable time showing radar images, predicting the path of a storm, estimating the amount of rain or snowfall and even suggesting possible damage.
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