Feedback: N&O weather page

appreciate your sharing, Keep up the good work

You say that you are removing Greg Fishel's weather feature because WRAL is a competitor of the N&O.
Well, what about WPTF radio? They are a competitor of the N&O, yet you run a column each week by Rick Martinez, who is the programming director for that radio station.
Shouldn't you also reveal that Mr. Martinez' wife works for the conservative John Locke Foundation? Why doesn't the N&O have a local progressive columnist writing columns on a regular basis?

- The television guide is worthless - put it back in the Lifestyle section.
- We are not currently in a drought, and even so, it is helpful to have a space to show where the droughts may be. (Down 2.95 inches for the year - we are probably in pre-drought conditions.)
- Keep the temperature trend - it tells the story of where we are and where we may be heading.
- the state lines are nearly invisible
- If you are going to have color for the maps, include a color for the air quality - it can be green, yellow, orange, red, and purple
- The same is for the UV index
- The national map with temperatures - why post the same thing on the map and in the table below the map (Houston 95/78, Charlotte 90/65, LA 83/61, etc .... Personally, I would rather see the contiguous 48 Record Highs and Lows in red and blue.
- For a special Friday map I would run the drought index map
- There needs to be a space for tropical updates June 1-November 30.

I agree with a previous comment - I am looking for trends for the Triangle and surrounding areas. I watch the Weather Channel a couple of times a day. I have the weather channel icon on my computer at work. If I want weather forecasts for another city I enter the information and get the 10-day for that part of the country.

I stand on my previous comment - you can sell the paper on quality, price, or service - cutting back the physical size of the newspaper was understandable, and conserved paper. Cutting back content, not so much. Cutting the competition out of the weather page - fine - if they weren't paying to be in the paper, why run them? The paper should generate business fr the website and the website should generate business for the paper. Everything needs to be linked ... McClatchy is a large enterprise - link the papers, link the forecasts, make it easy access for any subscriber - print or on-line.

You can generate profits by reducing overhead, increasing revenue, or both. Remember the 'both.'

The map shows Hi/Lo but the forecast and the tables all show Lo/Hi. Can we at least be consistent?

We need to know the weather at the mountains and the beach. Been missing this since the last format change. And don't forget the tides... need this for day trips. Either put the NC map back or list more NC mountain/beach cities. Listing temps for cities outside NC isn't as valuable as the actual weather codes: cl, r, etc. because the temps show on the map. And I can also do without the international listings.

Good job - but I would miss the NC map, especially in the summer when we tend to day-trip and use the weather map to help decide where to go. And I will miss the hourly forecast that is given for "today". I do miss the dew point info you used to provide.

I agree with other posters that we could do without international weather, also could do without or with much less national weather.

And please keep the moon phase, moon & sun rise & set times.

I prefer the NC map to show info for around the state, rather than a listing.

NC weather should take preference. I can get national/international up to date on weather.com.

But if you're going to have a US map, put more cities on it.