Re: Re: Weather guys and gals

["Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@lycos.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 1:50 PM
Subject: Fwd: Re: Weather guys and gals


> It could depend on what the meaning of "accurate" is.
> Televison stations, both over-the-air and via cable, cover
> large swaths of territory.  A Boston TV station meteorologist
> could say "cold with a chance of sleet or snow" and Worcester
> could be buried and Methuen would get all snow, but only an
> inch or two...while Attleboro gets all rain.

Knowing that they cover large swaths of territiory they should be specific
about where their forecast is for.  The people in Maine are pretty good
about that.