What Drives You Crazy About Winter Weather Coverage?

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One day after snow, sleet and freezing rain hit the Charlotte area, let’s take a step back and look at how the news covers the weather.  You’ve seen the reporters doing their best to prove how icy and cold it is outside, kicking sleet-covered roads and turning hot water into snow.

Frankly, it becomes mind-numbingly difficult to come up with something new to say if there’s nothing new happening.  Which is probably why one of the other stations out there was promoting their coverage by saying, “It’s icy at the airport… how officials say the sun could help.”  True story.

Obviously, it’s important to bring you information about dangerous weather.  And when stations go on for hours, the repetition helps people who just tuned in to catch up.  But if you’re watching it for hours, some of that repetition starts to seem crazy.

So Rance Adams hit the streets to ask you guys: what drives you crazy about the way news media covers winter weather?