Any hope for accurate reporting in NZ?

[bpo]

After the recent ludicrous claims about "25 cm" of snow in Omarama (actual max was 11 cm, +/- 1 cm), the latest travesty is a report of us getting down to "-20 degrees" overnight. (It was around -11 degrees, +/- 1 degree.)

We hit an overnight low of -14.4 (+/- 0.5 degrees) back in June 13th 2006, which was itself nowhere near the record of -18 degrees reached outside of the village at Tara Hills some years earlier.

Is there any hope at all of accurate reporting when we have all these bogus "weather analyst" shysters selling page Ad clicks to drooling retards desperate for excitement rather than reality?

[03Stormchaser]

Tara Hills hit -20c this morning according to the wx station MS use. Unless I've missed MS saying this was incorrect...

[tgsnoopy]

As for the claims being made on Social Media by people who are not qualified professionals, I don't see anyway you could stop them. Best thing you could do in my opinion is try to educate people to recognise them for what they are, but you'd need to be careful how you did so.

[Razor]

After the recent ludicrous claims about "25 cm" of snow in Omarama (actual max was 11 cm, +/- 1 cm), the latest travesty is a report of us getting down to "-20 degrees" overnight. (It was around -11 degrees, +/- 1 degree.)

We hit an overnight low of -14.4 (+/- 0.5 degrees) back in June 13th 2006, which was itself nowhere near the record of -18 degrees reached outside of the village at Tara Hills some years earlier.

Is there any hope at all of accurate reporting when we have all these bogus "weather analyst" shysters selling page Ad clicks to drooling retards desperate for excitement rather than reality?

I think you may need a (ahem) chill pill