I’m not the only Ryan H. in the weather world. I tried my hand at Youtube, and I was reminded as to why I never panned out as an on air meteorologist. If you are deep into the internet as this website, or maybe you found me through my books, perhaps you have also intersected with Ryan Hall, another well known internet weatherman, who has something I never did: technological savvy and organization. And probably more time to dedicate to this craft.

Of course, there are huge differences between Ryan Hall and Ryan Henning, talent levels aside. I focus on individual, site specific forecasting and synoptic scale discussions. Ryan Hall makes videos discussing major weather stories, and will go live with coverage of outbreaks. He is connected with storm chasers, and can bring in live video from storms as they happen. I am out here just writing stuff, occasionally sharing a video.

I’m filling a gap that nobody, perhaps, needed filled. Ryan Hall is looking to fill in the gaps that the traditional TV powerhouses has not filled. Not only his Hall on the big events, breaking them down on Youtube, but he has now launched a 24/7 video feed, and set it to music that other fans of “Local on the 8’s” can get behind. Check out the stream below:

I noted at the launch of Fox Weather that they were filling in a bit of a gap. They were focused almost exclusively on live weather, rather than studio shows, scheduled programming or commentary. The Weather Channel has sort of evolved into something that resembles an offering that should be on Discovery Plus, and Fox Weather was different, however they too are finding it hard to fill a day with JUST the weather this day in age.

Accuweather and WeatherNation are more niche offerings, but they attempt to cover the day’s weather headlines and are finding that the most effective way to do that is to pretape segments and re-air them every half hour or so. Hall’s newly launched 24/7 livestream, shared above, cycles through the alerts and warnings, focusing on the most significant weather, and inserting some automated text from an AI system. Hall has eliminated the desire to make television rather than cover the weather, and he has eliminated the overhead that Accuweather and WeatherNation were attempting to avoid.

Like I said, this is perfect for the fans of Local on the 8’s, but with better graphics and better technology. If you like to go old school, I suppose you could always go that route while Ryan Hall works out the last few kinks. I’m sure it won’t take him long.