Is the Weather Channel losing its authority? Did they jump the shark?

I notice that they are getting desperate. Voting on what music to play. Also they keep showing old clips over and over. I don’t want to remember the tornadoes that ripped through Edmonton.

i think it’s because the accuweather site is easier to navigate. But Yahoo still uses the weather channel.

A girlfriend of mine just told me to get the accuweather app. I haven’t done it yet. She said it was great. I don’t follow the weather daily.

I know the weather channel website has some thing about it that really bother me. Years ago I liked it better.

Also, during a really bad snow and ice storm last year the Weather Channel was reporting ridiculous information that was not helpful or interesting on a national level. They talked about Charleston, SC over and over again being iced in. So what?! We were concerned about major roadways being passable, interstates. Let the local news handle if people can travel to work or not within a 30 mile radius. Charleston is a small city by the coast, and it isn’t tourist season during late January. That’s when I really started to lose respect for the channel. I don’t watch the weather much like I said, but I used to rely on the Weather Channel for bad storms.

A big difference is that Accuweather is a weather site. The Weather Channel is an entertainment site/network with a weather theme.

@Darth_Algar – excellent point – I think you have hit on it.

The weather channel does have a website though. My biggest frustration with that site is years ago I could see monthly averages and previous months actual data and now if it is still on the site I can’t find it.

As @JLeslie mentioned, the Weather Channel does have a website, and the daily high & low temperature and precipitation (if any) are available on the monthly calendars. However, for such data from earlier than last month, good luck. Click on the “monthly” link to get to it

However, this summer I began noticing more and more errors in their Doppler radar Weather In Motion maps. On one occasion, their future rainfall prediction showed potentially heavy rain throughout the afternoon in one wide swath through the town I live in, causing me to cancel an appointment I had scheduled in that part of town. Instead of the heavy rain they were showing, no rain fell at all the entire afternoon.

Even with the creeping deficiencies on the weather.com website, I keep it set as y Firefox home page. I have explored Accuweather several times, and I find it less informative and harder to navigate, so I ignore it.

Personally I just go to the website for the National Weather Service. The NWS is where everyone gets their info from anyway.

As long as at least one of their weathercasters is pregnant at a given time they have not jumped the shark.