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FritzPaul
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BTW: Sorry I forgot you had to register. Here's the story....
We had many calls at the station today wondering why our forecast was different than the Weather Channel's. WWL will ALWAYS display the official NHC forecast. In the rare event we disagree with it, we will also show a forecast of our own and why we disagree.
After some digging, Carl just confirmed via his sources at the Weather Channel that they are indeed NOT even showing NHC's forecast, but showing a forecast produced by their own meteorologists. While I think there is nothing wrong in doing this, I think they should also show the NHC forecast as well as not to confuse people, or lead people to believe that is the official forecast when it is not.
This information has been passed on to the director of NHC so they understand what is going on. I'm not sure when the Weather Channel started this policy, but I find it a bit disturbing.
I just wanted to give everyone a heads up because I know some other posts here have been wondering why this is the case.
John Gumm
Meteorologist
WWL-TV
1024 North Rampart Street
New Orleans, LA 70116
We had many calls at the station today wondering why our forecast was different than the Weather Channel's. WWL will ALWAYS display the official NHC forecast. In the rare event we disagree with it, we will also show a forecast of our own and why we disagree.
After some digging, Carl just confirmed via his sources at the Weather Channel that they are indeed NOT even showing NHC's forecast, but showing a forecast produced by their own meteorologists. While I think there is nothing wrong in doing this, I think they should also show the NHC forecast as well as not to confuse people, or lead people to believe that is the official forecast when it is not.
This information has been passed on to the director of NHC so they understand what is going on. I'm not sure when the Weather Channel started this policy, but I find it a bit disturbing.
I just wanted to give everyone a heads up because I know some other posts here have been wondering why this is the case.
John Gumm
Meteorologist
WWL-TV
1024 North Rampart Street
New Orleans, LA 70116
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FritzPaul wrote:BTW: Sorry I forgot you had to register. Here's the story....
We had many calls at the station today wondering why our forecast was different than the Weather Channel's. WWL will ALWAYS display the official NHC forecast. In the rare event we disagree with it, we will also show a forecast of our own and why we disagree.
After some digging, Carl just confirmed via his sources at the Weather Channel that they are indeed NOT even showing NHC's forecast, but showing a forecast produced by their own meteorologists. While I think there is nothing wrong in doing this, I think they should also show the NHC forecast as well as not to confuse people, or lead people to believe that is the official forecast when it is not.
This information has been passed on to the director of NHC so they understand what is going on. I'm not sure when the Weather Channel started this policy, but I find it a bit disturbing.
I just wanted to give everyone a heads up because I know some other posts here have been wondering why this is the case.
John Gumm
Meteorologist
WWL-TV
1024 North Rampart Street
New Orleans, LA 70116
Oh gee. Here we go. Good information Fritz.
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