Weather

May 17, 2013

AccuWeather serves up sunny new logo

AccuWeather has announced a new corporate brand identity system. The company, which provides weather data, forecasts, graphics and production services to newspapers, radio stations and televisions across the country, debuted the new look at the NAB convention in Las Vegas. The new logo features the words “AccuWeather” in a simple typeface next to a sun icon. The [...]

May 10, 2013

Weather forecasting you can ‘depend’ on…

It’s time for your Friday laugh. Greg Dutra, a meteorologist at KWQC-TV in Davenport, Iowa, managed to crack himself up on air after making a joke referencing a commercial that had just aired. Have a watch.

May 8, 2013

Dallas map glitch predicts electoral votes, not fronts

WFAA-TV forecaster Pete Delkus found a different kind of map behind him during Monday’s newscast. Instead of red high fronts and blue low fronts, Delkus found himself in front of red states and blue states — a 2012 electoral vote map. The error was apparently the result of a new weather map system the station recently [...]

March 25, 2013

Will someone please fix the ‘a’?

This has been bothering me for a few days now. Seeing this makes me want to walk over to the NBC Tower from my apartment, sneak in the WMAQ-TV studio and just nudge the little dot in the middle of the “a” in the weather center header. I think I could fix it with some [...]