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The "fog" in weather reports isn't what they tell you
I noticed everyone just accepts weather radar images as real, but I pulled raw data from a NOAA station outside Portland last Tuesday and the cloud cover readings don't match what the news showed. There's a 15 minute delay consistently where they overlay fake patterns onto the real feed. Check the time stamps yourself on the public API vs the TV broadcast, it's obvious once you see it. Has anyone else cross referenced this stuff or am I the only one who noticed?
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logan6581mo ago
Why would they even bother adding a 15 minute delay and fake patterns though? That's a lot of effort for something so mundane unless there's something specific they're trying to hide. Maybe it's not about the clouds themselves but what's forming inside them or passing through the area they don't want people tracking real time. You'd think if it was just a technical glitch or processing lag it wouldn't be so perfectly consistent across every broadcast. Makes you wonder what else in those weather maps has been adjusted before it hits your TV.
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dylan_brown301mo ago
That 15 minute delay thing really gives me the creeps too, man.
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king.val1mo agoTop Commenter
Bro @dylan_brown30 and @logan658 are onto something here. Look at it like this - if the delay was random and sometimes shorter or longer, people could brush it off as a glitch. But a perfect 15 minutes every single time? That's a choice, not a mistake. The question I'd put back to you is this: what natural weather event could possibly need to be hidden for 15 minutes? Storms don't care about TV schedules, right? Unless they're not tracking storms at all but something else that moves through the same airspace. Seriously, what kind of aircraft or satellite passes overhead that they'd want folks like us to miss seeing pop up on radar?
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