How to set locality for Weather Channel?

[careys]

When we see the local Weather on The Weather Channel, it is for a City 25 miles away. Where do you go to set the locality for your own city so that you get local weather?

Thank you,

[MsRaye]

maybe as close as you'll get.. If you do search of where am I on your public IP, does it also say you're 25 miles away?

 TWC has improper Geolocation an better than 50% of the customers and I don't see them fixing it

[MsRaye]

Do you see the same location on a cable box?

[careys]

Search on whereIAm?  how?

[careys]

What do you mean by do I see the same location on a cable box? My DVR and Cable Box are one and the same... Arris  DCX3600.

[careys]

I found where-am-i.net. It shows me to be about 2 miles south of my actual location. The Weather Channel information is coming from 25 miles East-North-East.

[FunkDoobiest · Accepted solution]

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@careys wrote:

When we see the local Weather on The Weather Channel, it is for a City 25 miles away. Where do you go to set the locality for your own city so that you get local weather?

Thank you,

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The short answer is no, you can't. You'll only get the "regional" reports moving foward.

The SD channel used to offer local stuff while the HD channel offered a more "regional" report. The units that provided reports on the SD channel were called Intellistars (SD only) and were phased out last year.

The HD channel required the newer Instellistar 2 and most were placed in a more regional headend as most areas were integrated and combined. Most markets ran both types of Intellistars and this caused some confusion since the reports didn't match between SD/HD channels and it was also one of the few channels that didn't have an auto HD pair, which is when you tune to a channel, the HD is automatically chosen.

Wiki Pages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeatherStar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_on_the_8s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weather_Channel

I know it's probably not what you wanted to hear but there are other alternatives for weather info that is much better than any Intellistar unit can provide. Other cable/sat TV providers also had this same dilemma and some companies even dropped The Weather Channel altogether.