[rkolsen]

No, we just get on with it and judge the level of potential danger by the number of pictures of a wheelie bin on its side posted on Facebook.

Generally we can tell if it's wet and windy by looking out the window. It really would infuriate viewers hunkered down at home if half the programme they were watching was obscured by a graphic telling them its raining.

Guess that’s different we have more severe weather. Additionally weather is considered the most important part of the newscast and breaking in for tornadoes is basically kind of mandatory if staffed (one time there wasn’t a meteorologist but a producer was there manipulating the maps as the meteorologist narrated on screen). Is kind of part of the stations public service.

Severe weather drive the news. That’s why you see top of the line radars or radar networks, sometimes a separate weather set and different types of software to present the weather.