James Spann Commentary

James Spann sure did hit the nail on the head with his commentary at the start of the [Day One: A Storm Chasing Documentary](https://youtu.be/DFWt\_zcs2pk?is=LE7sKRa2LWTDyqWG)

> In the last five years, I've seen increasing tension, which I don't like. I think we all have to be together. And I understand we'll all have differences of opinion. We're all going to communicate weather in different ways. But I think we need to find a way to get along.

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> I see way too many people in the weather enterprise, whether it's the chasing community, whether it's professional meteorologists, They'rel , the chief meteorologist for fighting. Publicly. On social platforms. That's not al good look for any of us. And for people to see us as credible sources, we have to kind of be somewhat unifthink that's the biggest thing I've seen here in the last five years.

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> And the other change is the amount of hyperbole. It's out of hand. It's like we hav warning addiction crisis in the country. Everybody, they just want to hype everything that happens. And this goes from broadcast television to chasers. Everybody, everybody. There's nobody innocent here.

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> You've got broadcast meteorology groups. They're going to call a "Code Red Weather Emergency Day" when it's foggy. Are you kidding me? So, you know, if everything's a code red weather emergency day, what are you going to do when there's a real tornado threat?

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> And it's the same thing with the chasing community that "This will be worse than April 27th, 2011!" or "This will be the worst day ever!" And that's nonsense.

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> And what broadcast TV is trying to do is to bring people back to old school Ron Burgundy newscast. And that's the worst way to do that. And the chasers, they're trying to bring in social media engagement, which, in turn, drives monetization and they make money. And so we got to cut back on the hyperbole too. It's out of hand.

Source: [DAY ONE: Trial And Error)| 4K (A Storm Chasing Documentary)](https://youtu.be/DFWt\_zcs2pk?is=e3hsf0AuJYX-Uarc)

Timestamp: 3:03 to 4:39