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A winter storm headed for the mid-Atlantic seaboard. All three newscasts led with the snow as the Story of the Day -- but they split on its importance. Chip Reid for CBS and Ginger Zee, leader of ABC's flashily-titled eXtreme Weather Team, headed off to the mountains of Virginia to emphasize how heavy and wet the downfall was, snapping power lines, causing electricity outages, inducing cardiac shoveling. Tom Costello of NBC teased the federal government and airlines at Reagan National for taking a dire forecast so seriously. The European meteorological model, Costello pointed out, had accurately predicted a mere dusting.

This was the sixth time out of the last 11 weekdays that ABC has led with winter weather (NBC twice, CBS once). For follow-ups, NBC and ABC both offered forecasts for the remains of the nor'easter, the Weather Channel's Reynolds Wolf and Good Morning America's Sam Champion (at the tail of the Zee videostream) respectively. CBS sent Jim Axelrod to the Jersey Shore to inspect the damage from Superstorm Sandy, which makes Seaside Heights newly vulnerable to a nor'easters floods. Axelrod's package is the eighth Sandy follow-up on CBS since the New Year; NBC has filed 11; ABC has yet to offer a single update.
Andrew Tyndall 3/7/13 8:49:10 pm

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