THE WEATHER CHANNEL IS A PIECE OF SHIT

It's common knowledge that major media blows everything out of proportion, choosing exaggerations and hyperbole over facts and hard news in order to boost ratings. The Weather Channel is just about as bad as they get.

The good ol' days.

Long ago the Weather Channel decided to give up its format of slow-moving data and sexy saxophone music for reality programming like Storm Stories, Storm Riders, Forecasting the End, It Could Happen Tomorrow and more. Click here for a complete listing of their shows; it's pretty hilarious. Of particular note are Iceberg Hunters and Deadliest Space Weather (we might actually check out that last one).

What's most ridiculous, though, is their continually overblown coverage of "deadly" storms. This year the Midwest was "ravaged" by two storms of apocalyptic magnitude: Rocky and Q. In reality, they were nothing more than several inches of snow along with some wind. The panic caused by the Weather Channel may have helped stores sell out of milk, but it didn't mean much else.

Then, came "Snowquestration", the fierce storm that shut down the federal government before it even started. Ace blowhard Jim Cantore himself went to D.C. to fist-fight the storm as he usually does. And while the storm amounted to hours of rain, all the Weather Channel decided to show were the ten short minutes of actual snowfall on loop for about 92 hours.

TAKE SHELTER!!! Photo by Pauline Eccles, via Wikimedia Commons

Mother Nature is a scary beast, and time after time she's dealt deadly blows, but the Weather Channel needs to check itself with all these cries of wolf. We've tuned them out completely. Our weather information consists of checking the radar on other sites, and ignoring all warnings and cries for attention. Maybe some day we'll be caught off guard, but it's better than hiding in the basement while it sprinkles outside.