Do you find this weatherman weird, funny or nice?

It doesn’t really matter what we think. Somewhere along the way, the station did some audience surveys and found that their demographic – their target audience – likes to hear that stuff. We may think it hokey, some may think it offensive, but the fact remains that the viewers but from advertisers, and advertisers only pay for advertising that works for them. And advertising is what pays for programming in a certain way.

Bottom line, when you live in the Bible Belt, you expect a certain level of pandering to that audience.

It matters to me what you think @elbanditoroso which is how and why I asked the question.

We had a weather man here who used the term “SLC’s.” I happened to be watching when he said it the first time, and someone asked him what that meant. Scary Looking Clouds, he said. I thought that was funny, and they still use the term. :) Ah ahh Kansas!
My coworker was at this K-State game and sent me a picture from her phone. SLC, indeed.

SLC is a real term in in meteorology. Here’s the Wisconsin SLC Club. The motto for Skywarn spotters is that, “if it doesn’t spin don’t call-in”

That first picture would scare me! The second…I HATE it when black clouds are hanging so low to the ground. It’s so spooky, and it always seems to happen right around Udall Kansas. They had a tornado in 1955 that obliterated the town except for the water tower. It’s about 15 miles from here.

I don’t understand why it would be funny…

That is interesting. “Weird”, “funny”, or “nice” aren’t words I would use to describe this statement. As someone who also lives in The Bible Belt, what I have found is that Christians in general are very open about their religion, People of other faiths and non-believers are less open to publicly advertising their perspective.

One example is how many co-workers would send an e-mail and end it with “Have a blessed day.” Technically, this was against company standards. The human resources dept. was very PC, so my guess is that no one ever complained about it. It may be the same thing for this news station.

Awareness comes from confrontation. If delivered politely and effectively, it may result in positive changes. I’ve witnessed this twice; in DC and in Memphis. (Note: both were unrelated to religion, but along the same vein.) Enough people called or wrote in expressing their displeasure that these weekly reports were abruptly halted.

@Pied_Pfeffer “People of other faiths and non-believers are less open to publicly advertising their perspective.”

Really? Not on Fluther!

@livelaughlove21 Ah, but one of us Jellies could be your next door neighbor or co-worker. Would you necessarily know it? Fluther is a relatively safe haven for sharing our feelings while remaining as anonymous as we choose to be.

I’d take from that statement first an opportunity to roll my eyes, and then note that this wouldn’t be a good weekend to open the booth at the flea market. If the after-church crowd knows it’s going to rain, they won’t bother coming out.

I would call his statement inappropriate.

It seems a normal enough thing to say if churchgoing is popular. The weathermen sometimes give the forecast for a football game although not everyone is interested in football.