Weather

Pros: 24 hours a day
Cons: no personalities doing the local weather

If there is a storm a brewing in Ohio I am watching the Weather Channel. Wheww! I feel much better now. I guess I feel like knowledge is power. If I know what to expect I can be better prepared.

For those of us are interested in the weather...

Pros: 24 hour weather
Cons: really boring until they get to what you want to know, music sucks

We watch the weather cahnnel several times a day. First in the morning to see what the day will bring then at night to see if there any changes for tomorrow. To us The weather channel is a necessity.I live in Florida and we must have the weirdest weather...

Pros: Always there, always reliable
Cons: A few too many commercials

I confess, I am a weather junkie. People make fun of me for loving the Weather Channel. Not a day goes by that I don't spend at least a portion of my viewing time plugged right in to what is happening with the weather.

The Weather Channel...

Pros: Weather available all the time
Cons: No fistfights or anything like that

At our house, The Weather Channel is the default setting for our TV. If there is nothing on we wish to watch, but we want to leave the set on for whatever reason, we tune in to TWC. My wife and I both enjoy watching.

As a science teacher, I...

Pros: It's fun to see international weather now and then.
Cons: Our weather changes too much for it to be useful.

Strange as it may seem, I've had two people I'm very close to -- my baby sister, and my husband's baby sister -- who have, at various stages of their lives, become obsessed with The Weather Channel.

This obsession came and went for...

Pros: 24 Hour Weather, Highly Educational
Cons: None

My husband gets angry with me on a regular basis due to the fact that while watching television, I spend 95% of my time on the Weather Channel! I can't help it. I am fascinated by weather. Every time there is a cold front moving through, I stay tuned to...

Pros: They are on 24 hours a day
Cons: Bad coverage of our area.

Living out here in the country, we see a ton of severe weather. We are about 30 miles east Pikes Peak and by the time the storms get to us, they have had a fair amount of time to build.

Last night, we had one of the most spectacular...

Pros: Accurate, detailed information
Cons: None

I began watching the Weather Channel several years ago. At first it was just occasionally, like when I was planning a vacation or was worried about an impending snowstorm. Now its become more of a daily ritual.

I rely on accurate weather...

Pros: Local Weather on the 8's
Cons: commercials, commercials, commercials...

Hello! My name is Merey and I'm an Addict!

I will admit it, I am an AVID watcher of the weather channel. If you walk into my home and turn on a TV, 9 times out of 10 it is on the weather channel.

I guess there isn't too much a...

Pros: Always on the air
Cons: Sometimes you have a bit of a wait to see your area.

At least once a day, I'll peek in at The Weather Channel - sometimes while I'm waiting for a commercial on another channel to get done. It is on cable tv. There are always two weather-persons sitting at the desk-and they take turns at the maps. I have...

Pros: all weather, when you have time for it, great documentaries
Cons: sometimes, too much weather, not localized on satellite

Snow in the east, sunny in the west is your forcast for today!!! I wouldn't have known this if I hadn't tuned into the weather channel for my daily update.

The weather channel is 24 hours of just that, nothing but weather. They specialize in...

Pros: up to the minute reports, no hype
Cons: none

The cable industry has revolutionized many industries. Yes, we have twenty-four hour Movie, Sports, Shopping and Travel channels. But the most useful channel on the TV is The Weather Channel. All they do is weather. So they do it right.
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Pros: A great deal of accurate, timely information
Cons: Lots of commercials

Keeping an Eye on the Storm

I have been an avid weather buff for 30 years, and I've written a lot about it in my personal journal through the years. Not surprisingly, The Weather Channel was a godsend for people like me.

I...

Pros: 24/7 weather reports, great for teaching kids geography
Cons: Meteorologists who's heads are exactly the size of New England

New Englanders don't just talk about the weather -- we joke about it, fret about it, stockpile canned beans to honor it. This is the land where we have learned not to put away our snowblowers til Mother's Day and we walk around in bathing suits a week...

Pros: Up to the minute coverage
Cons: none

We watch the Weather Channel quite a bit in our house. We live in Cleveland, which is a place where the weather can change fast because we live so close to Lake Erie, and we can get a lot of lake effect problems here.

Their coverage is...