Fuck Bain capital! Not satisfied with destroying the weather channel they buy up the weather

[Drew Richards]

Underground and drive it too into the ground and now weather.com is full of crap, super slow and worthless...going back to noaa fuck Bain they poison everything they touch.

[Scuba]

1. Here's the site I use, but then I'm biased towards socialism ....

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?zoneid=IDZ026

[Drew Richards]

2. THANK YOU Scuba my new weather link...thx

[senseandsensibility]

6. Great. "Government" weather.

Can you imagine the shrieking from FOX snooze about this? How long has this been going on?

[Scuba]

8. Where do you think the other sources get their forecasts?

[senseandsensibility]

9. Well, I was kidding,

but you're right. Best to go to the source. The meteorologists I read on Weather Underground (they write a kind of blog) seem to be government employees, too.

[Scuba]

10. Yeah, my sarcasm gene was fully developed too.

[tokenlib]

3. Weather.gov is the best..who the hell is the Weather Channel to name storms anyhow....N/T

[JaneyVee]

4. I still want to see Mitt Romney's tax returns.

[niyad]

5. so bain capital is the reason the weather channel is suddenly not on directv? was watching

the weather channel with a friend so we could keep an eye on possible storms a week or so ago, and there was a notice that the channel would no longer be available. now I know why.

[Drew Richards]

7. It has been reported earlier that they were demanding 4.99 price cost from directv and so far

Direct tv told bain to go fuck themselves...negotiatios still going on.

[yeoman6987]

27. Verizon

I have Verizon Fios and the weather channel has disappeared and replaced any another CBS channel (which we already have two channels). So now we have three channels showing the same exact shows. Oh and that does not include the HD channels that I do have but not sure of the channels. So it is possible that six channels are all showing the same CBS shows at the same time. Isn't that great? (roll eyes).

[kcr]

11. Weather underground isn't too bad

But Weather.com is just the pits now. They've turned it into buzzfeed.

[JeffHead]

12. Have they laid off Jim Cantore yet?

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Oh com'on Jim Cantore is pure entertainment

and comedy gold. As long as you go to oh I do not know, the National Weather Service for actual weather... he can be just plain out fun.

[FarCenter]

19. If Jim Cantore shows up in your town -- run away!!!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. In my case, RUN TOWARDS THE STORY

But yup

And if Jim shows here, our predicted hurricanes will make landfall, that will be a very bad day in this town. (For the record, one did come in in 1975, it was a very bad day)

[11 Bravo]

33. Cantore was in DC this morning, broadcasting from in front of the Capitol building.

We are so screwn!

[nadinbrzezinski]

34. HIDE. QUICK

And stock up.

[alittlelark]

14. WeatherUnderground is my 'go to' and (hopefully) always will be!

http://www.wunderground.com/

[intheflow]

16. Sweetie, it already sucks.

Seriously, check both weather.gov and wunderground.com against what your actual weather is over the course of a week. weather.gov is waaaay more accurate. It wasn't always so, I was absolutely devoted to Weather Underground, but wunderground was sold a year ago to the weather channel and I've noticed the difference. Even the wundermap is screwed up now.

[herding cats]

35. I noticed it was getting sucky, I didn't know the reason.

I've been using weather.gov again lately because weather underground just keeps missing the mark. At least I know why now.

[alittlelark]

42. So that's why my last road trip was sooo F'ed up?

I was thinking it was just a fluke..... :-l

[gvstn]

44. Hi

Does wunderground still do snow totals at their various local stations, hour by hour? I realize most are just high school kids out there with a ruler but I liked it and can't seem to find that function anymore.

Thanks!

[intheflow]

45. This is exactly what I'm talking about.

That wundermap was a wonder, absolutely spot-on and easy to navigate. Now it defaults to information I could not care less about and the information I want to see is hard to find and never seems to load properly. I can't help you with the snow totals, sorry.

[gvstn]

46. Thanks for the reply.

I was wondering if it was just me. I don't go to weather sites that often but wunderground used to be great. Everything you wanted to know and more. Now, it seems to be just repackaged NOAA information much like Weather.com. I remember when they were bought out and everyone said they would stay the same but something must have changed because I see less and less local "weather stations" in my area. Seems the high schools have dropped out. It was a great resource for local information at one time. A bunch of local people pooing information.

I just don't understand why corporations buy out anything informative and then dumb it down to the point it is useless. Every "smart" tv channel gets bought out and the programming is replaced with reality tv. What the hell? If you don't want to show documentaries of animals then don't buy the Discovery channel. If you don't want to broadcast courtroom trials then don't buy CourtTv. Makes me mad!

Thanks again for your take on wunderground.

[intheflow]

49. Oh yeah, just like this:

How the Privatization of NASA’s The Learning Channel devolved into a for-profit channel pushing Honey Boo Boo

[DemocraticWing]

15. They bought up the weather?

Oh God, Mitt Romney with climate control is a horrendous scenario!

[spanone]

17. my favorite weather dot com.....

http://www.thefuckingweather.com/?where=NASHVILLE%2c+TN

[Ilsa]

18. thanks. laughing. tears rolling down my cheeks... nt

[spanone]

20. enter your city!

[okaawhatever]

36. I think we're neighbors. I live in Williamson County. nt

[spanone]

37. davidson county here! just south of nashville...howdy neighbor

[okaawhatever]

38. So I guess you don't have the honor of having Marsha Blackburn represent you. lolz. nt

[spanone]

39. hopefully you're in district 4 ?????

[okaawhatever]

40. Heck no. I'm in Blackburn country. I'm basically across the street from the Franklin City Limits.

Off of Hillsboro Rd. If you know the Grassland area.

[spanone]

41. marsha is a nasty person. i feel your pain.

close by.... off hillsboro 'round tyne. know the area well.

[El_Johns]

22. I think that's the objective -- to get rid of excess "choice".

[Lunacee_2013]

23. Wait, are they the reason TWC is no longer on?

At least in my area?

[AngryOldDem]

24. Do you have Dish Network?

Dish dropped TWC because they couldn't come to terms on money. I had no idea about this backstory about Bain and TWC. That may explain why TWC has become such a wasteland -- it's been compared to MTV, and that's kind of a spot-on observation. If I want a weather forecast, TWC is the last place I go to get it. Wasn't always that way. Sad.

[rurallib]

30. I think that is directtv - I have dish and still have TWC

never watch - but still got it.

[AngryOldDem]

47. You're right...got my providers confused. Thanks. n/t

[Lunacee_2013]

32. No, I use direct tv.

I caught TWC the night before they went off the air and the reporter (I guess that's what he was) said that direct was dropping them because of money issues. And yes, TWC sucks now. They never show local weather anymore. I understand the need for travel forecasts, but for the love of God, why won't they tell me about my weather? I don't care how crazy this weather is on Mars, I just need tomorrow's forecast and the windchill!

[AngryOldDem]

48. No weather on the Weather Channel...

As I always joke when I turn it on for a forecast, "What was I thinking?"

When I need a quick forecast I either check the National Weather Service or a local weather station that runs forecasts on about a 12-hour loop. TWC has done itself no favors, and I can't blame Direct for not giving in to the blackmail. The product isn't worth it anymore.

[greytdemocrat]

25. Well...

I watch the Weather Channel, use their website as my home page
and go to wunderground.com all the time and
the world hasn't ended.

At least not yet.

[zazen]

26. _that_ explains why it's turned into the National Enquirer?!

I couldn't for the life of me figure out why it had become so sensationalistic.

The only weird thing, if indeed it's owned by an avatar of neoliberalism, is that it has seemed to be pumping climate change, but in a very sensationalistic, voyeuristic kind of way. Maybe the strategy is to make it seem so silly that no one believes it, like the alien stuff that's overtaken the History Channel.

Thanks for the other links. I'm afraid to click on TWC now for fear there will be some triggering story about brutally suffering animals or freakish human deaths. It's dreadful.

[madrchsod]

28. i have bookmarked ten weather sites

the one i use the most here in northern illinois is chicago tribunes`s tom skilling's weather page.

[KoKo]

29. The Weather Channel is now unwatchable trash TV.

I still like Weather Underground for Dr. Jeff Masters and the other bloggers. But, I wonder how long it can hold out given the way TWC has gone into the gutter.

[rurallib]

31. I thought NBC bought TWC, then Wunderground

Al Roker, Cantore and the bunch are always popping up on other NBC cable stations and NBC shows.

[davidpdx]

43. Plus Staples is now going to have post office counters in stores