Inventive Uses for Liveblogging: WSB-TV (Atlanta)

Tornado season has started in my home town, and because I’m concerned about friends and family as well as interested in severe weather because I dig weather porn, I’ve had the WSB-TV Doppler Radar open in one browser tab for most of the afternoon. The image refreshes whenever there’s a change to the radar, which gives me a chance to keep an eye on the sky from 3,000 miles away. What has me super excited, however, is how WSB provides frequent updates by liveblogging the storm system.

Every few minutes, WSB’s “Severe Weather Team” *eyeroll* updates their site with predictions of where severe weather will hit next. It’s part of their doppler radar package, which can forecast the arrival of storms within minutes, but this is the first time I’ve seen this information posted to their website. By posting this information online, they’re expanding their coverage and providing a necessary service to viewers who might be in the office at the end of a workday, but not within viewing distance of a TV.
The only things that could make this better would be posting the updates in reverse chronological order, and posting severe weather updates to Twitter. If they ever start posting this stuff to Twitter, I might just die of happiness right on the spot.