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My usual source for weather information is the National Weather Service’s rather nice site weather.gov<\/a>. It shows everything from the basic forecast to detailed hourly forecasts in graphic<\/a> and text<\/a> formats. This was having issues loading at one point today\u00a0(load\/use, I presume), so I headed over to The Weather Channel at weather.com<\/a>\u00a0to use their services.<\/p>\n While I was able to find forecast information, and I did see some of the expected advertising, the most obvious headlines on the main page were far more fear mongering than I’d anticipated — enough to make me really take notice of how much fear is being used to sell:<\/p>\n These aren’t even the typical clickbait<\/a>\u00a0Elsewhere on the web<\/em>\u00a0 \/ “You wouldn’t believe…”<\/em> ads, but actual links to pages within the weather.com site.\u00a0Fear mongering<\/a>\u00a0for selling things (products, politics, or revisits to websites) are nothing new, but as someone who rarely watches broadcast news or visits sites such as The Weather Channel I can’t help but be taken aback at the naked hype.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My usual source for weather information is the National Weather Service’s rather nice site weather.gov. It shows everything from the basic forecast to detailed hourly…<\/p>\n\n