Hurricane Hilary

[tyrannical bastard 3444]

This one's gonna be interesting, since it's a rare pacific storm to hit the continental United States.

 

TWC is focusing their attention on it at this moment, but the local stations aren't quite in "Hurricane Mode" like an Atlantic or Gulf station would be....yet.

[GodfreyGR 493]

As for how local affiliates cover it, many should be able to take playbooks/graphics from sister stations (KNBC & KNSD can take from WTVJ, KFMB can take from WJXX and WTSP, etc.) Granted the anchors, reporters, and mets in CA, for instance, are probably about as comfortable with covering a hurricane as their FL counterparts are with covering an earthquake, but most stations have the "how to cover a hurricane" playbook at their disposal.  

[SFTV 484]

FOX 5 will be having special coverage tomorrow since they don’t have a weekend morning show. Shally and Raoul will be anchoring.

[Spring Rubber 609]

On a national level, TWC went to long-form at 1pm ET. They're scheduled to be back live from 5pm-1am ET, long form from 1am-5am ET, and then round-the-clock coverage begins starting Sunday at 5am ET.

 

Fox Weather started a pre-recorded loop at 2pm ET solo-hosted by Jane Minar. They just went live with an update at around 4:50pm ET when the latest advisory came out. Unclear if they're planning any other fully-live programming throughout the later part of the day.

[mre29 1340]

It wouldn't surprise me if some meteorologists at Florida-based stations are working behind the scenes (remotely, either from home or from their regular stations) to help -- and provide coaching on how to cover a hurricane. Considering the number of companies that own stations in both regions -- Nexstar, Tegna, Scripps, NBCU, CBS, Fox, Telemundo, etc -- it's bound to be happening in some form.

 

At the very least, someone's brain was picked.