I found it somewhat meaningless for us here in NC. You are not exactly in a hurricane prone area up there. That cold water helps to kill a hurricane. So...my question is: do you only have one channel to watch? When I see something on TV that I don't care to watch, I change to something else...or turn it off. Hell, we even have remotes down here in Mayberry. For the 8 months of the year when we are in the islands...I'm reading GRIBS every AM and not seeing any TV coverage so I have to do my own forecasting - hype or not.