Thunderstorm Warning/Watch

[Hungary Jack]

Bad year for killer tornadoes thus far.

An ounce of prevention...

[Spider John]

I'm with ghostrunner on this. It's not the weather info, but the way it's presented. A crawl across the bottom of the screen would suffice, instead of the huge radar pic.

Another reason for having a map in the corner may be to keep you from changing off their station to the Weather Channel to see the radar.

[ghostrunner]

I'm with ghostrunner on this. It's not the weather info, but the way it's presented. A crawl across the bottom of the screen would suffice, instead of the huge radar pic.

Another reason for having a map in the corner may be to keep you from changing off their station to the Weather Channel to see the radar.

All this assuming I'm not:

on the computer
reading a book or magazine
watching a cable network
a satellite dish owner
watching a dvd
playing a video game
doing something else completely non-tv related

To me this gets into same territory as that lady leaving her kids in the car while she donated to the Salvation Army. The odds are excellent no harm will come to you in a severe storm. The odds are very good that you'll know about a severe storm before it hits, due to the grey clouds and all. Even if you do know it's coming, there's a chance it may hurt you anyway. How many survivors have we netted here, due to our uber-graphic? What wouldn't be accomplished just as well by the emergency warning system we've all known since childhood?

[Arthur Dent]

I think having a corner of your TV space taken up is a small price to pay for something that is potentially dangerous. I can think of one case last summer where a warning was issued and my kid was out on his bike, luckily with a cellphone. We called him and told him to get home immediately, and sure enough in about 20 minutes it was not fit to be outside at all. Besides, there are people that rely on those more than you know - i.e. a farmer may need to go out in the fields to get the cows in the barn etc...

Did you just say something nice about cell phones?

[Spider John]

I do have an early warning system at my house, a fourteen year old girl who watches the weather like a hawk since we've had one hit and one near miss from tornadoes in the early 2000's, along with some pretty severe damage in a 30 mile radius of home in the last year or two.

[Radio_Bugtussle]

Seems to me that a reasonably observant, life long midwesterner can figure out when we might have a problem with severe weather brewing.

[G. Keenan]

The only warning I take seriously are the tornado sirens. When those go off I'll pay attention.

[Spider John]

Seems to me that a reasonably observant, life long midwesterner can figure out when we might have a problem with severe weather brewing.

Exactly. Same for mid-southerners like myself.

[fulldeck]

It sounds like those graphics are much larger than what they put on screen here in the Chicagoland area. I can usually tune out the weather graphics at the bottom of the screen during shows after glancing at it once. My only problem with the graphics is whenever they have update scrolls they always take the feed out of HD mode.

[cardinalkarp]

It sounds like those graphics are much larger than what they put on screen here in the Chicagoland area. I can usually tune out the weather graphics at the bottom of the screen during shows after glancing at it once. My only problem with the graphics is whenever they have update scrolls they always take the feed out of HD mode.

It will do that sometimes but in general they put the thing you're watching in the top right of the screen. My 50" tv probably goes to about a 37" or 40" w/ all the crap that outlines the actual show.