Updating the Weather Report

This is one of those decisions that seems self-evident, in hindsight.
... Now, instead of issuing weather warnings on a county-by-county basis, the National Weather Service will issue them based on the location of the storm.

NewsChannel 7 Meteorologist Katie O’Brien says, “It helps in terms of there’s a lot less hassle on the part of people who aren’t even going to be affected by the storm.”

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