The Rare Meteorological Phenomenon “Snow Firehose” Is Neither Rare Nor A Phenomenon
February 29, 2020
Poor CBS News. The more I write about their weather coverage, the more it just feels like bullying. The radar started spinning off the pedestal in 2014. First, there was CBS’s infamous “sideways tornado,” which was not a tornado. A year…
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Photogenic Iowa Tornadoes Get More Coverage Than Storm That Kills 17 in Missouri
July 20, 2018
Severe thunderstorms killed 17 people in Missouri and produced multiple damaging tornadoes in Iowa on Thursday. The destructive but non-fatal tornadoes in Iowa got more coverage than the deadly thunderstorm in Missouri in large part because the tornadoes…
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A Note to the New Owners of The Weather Channel
March 22, 2018
The Weather Channel is under new ownership. The Hollywood Reporter published news on Thursday that Entertainment Studios recently closed a nine-figure deal to buy the Atlanta-based weather behemoth away from Comcast, NBC, and the venture capital firms…
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