Just wondering...
I fly off to San Antonio on Thursday.
So why does weather.com have a headliner about an airplane crash every day, even if they have to go back 20, 30, even 50 years to dredge one up?
Alternated with lists of distant vacation spots, mind you. Is this some kind of evil psychological experiment...?
Ta, L.
So why does weather.com have a headliner about an airplane crash every day, even if they have to go back 20, 30, even 50 years to dredge one up?
Alternated with lists of distant vacation spots, mind you. Is this some kind of evil psychological experiment...?
Ta, L.
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Aug 27, 2013 11:38PM
I had to check that out and it was worth a short laugh. That site has some pretty ridiculous and misleading headlines. It makes me think that perhaps weather and overly alarming news must appeal to the same target audience. I gave up on weather sites when I realized it was easier to just to type "hourly temp los angeles" into google. I cannot say if the information is better or worse though. Just strangely different.
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Yeah, weather.com used to be a safe place for me to visit because it was news-free, but now it, too, is jammed full of hypnotizing horrors. If I get started clicking, I lose two hours and become suicidally depressed, neither of which is helpful. Or start wishing a large asteroid would strike the Earth and put me out of its misery.Their maps and hourly local forecasts remain useful, though, so I keep it bookmarked anyway.
I do hate the news. And the media who thrust it upon me. A paragraph or two of bald description gives my imagination material enough to run, and rerun, technicolor horror movies in my brain for days, complete with characters and dialogue.
Years, for some articles.
Ta, L.
Nancy wrote: "I had to check that out and it was worth a short laugh. That site has some pretty ridiculous and misleading headlines. It makes me think that perhaps weather and overly alarming news must appeal to..."
Elizabeth wrote: "I use weather.gov instead."Yeah, someone over on my fan-run Facebook mirror site (where I can read comments, if I stop by, but cannot answer) just mentioned that. I have it bookmarked now, yay!
Ta, L.
True, weather.gov is nicely limited to weather but I still recommend using what google brings up from an "hourly temp cityname" search. It pops up in a nice concise and useful format at the top of the search results and shows the temp throughout the day, letting you pick days up to a week out... and gives you the option to do the same for precipitation and wind speed/direction. Everything you need before venturing outside or out of town. Hmm, I sound like I work for them. I promise I do not. We have to live with them, so why not make use of what they give us.
I like the NOAA site, since I can zero it in on my neighborhood, plus no crazy. But then I don't travel, so can't say if it's useful for those who do.Fly safely, Lois.
