Weather reporting STL

[rick-l]

Yesterday a tornado blew just north of my neighborhood. I spent 12 years in Wichita so kind of used to it.

I can see issuing warnings, but to make it an all night event is ridiculous.

One station keep replaying the radar sequence patting themselves on the back for predicting there was a tornado in the return signature. They never apologized for reporting a "Mass Casualty" situation at the Holiday Inn in Earth City (FALSE) or reporting the roof was blown off a Hotel/Casino, it wasn't.

The other station has a chief meteorologist, a former Iowa Pork Princess, who obviously never spent a minute in a physics class. She hasn't learned squat about weather even though she has been doing it more than 10 years.

Everything is so hyped and over exaggerated it is counterproductive.

[porsche4life]

What you describe is one reason OK can have massive tornados and relatively low casualty numbers. All of the major news stations in OK have at least 4-5 meteorologists on staff, and the CBS affiliate has 2 meteorologists that go out in the field and chase them. In OK they report them accurately and save lives!

Its a shame that other news outlets can't get at least one person with any intelligence in the weather center.