Someone reading the weather in San Diego does not need to be much more than a pretty face.
In Oklahoma if they can't read Doppler radar and really know what they are looking at they might get viewers killed. They need to know how to spot a wall cloud and sheer in the radar image. Heck most of the "storm chasers" the stations use are meteorologists with real degrees from real universities. They would be laughed off the air if they started using the wrong terminology.
As I said, the TV stations have equipment that even the national weather people don't have and it is a very competitive market. When a super cell is approaching and conditions are right the TV station go to constant coverage. No commercials nothing but weather for hours on end, no matter what national broadcast is on.
