Will Your Hometown Be Left Out in the Cold? Cities Sweat It Out to See Who Makes The Weather Channel Top Ten List

Will Your Hometown Be Left Out in the Cold? Cities Sweat It Out to See Who Makes The Weather Channel Top Ten List

Network Set To Release Best And Worst Conditions Across The Country

ATLANTA, April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- For those who take civic pride in the conditions they enjoy and endure, The Weather Channel stirs the debate over who has the best, worst, and craziest weather with its special "Top Ten" programs scheduled Monday, April 24 through Thursday, April 27 from 9:00 - 9:30 p.m. ET/PT.

Hosted by Dao Vu, also co-host of the network's popular weekend morning show "Weekend View," features a range of celebrities, comedians, radio hosts, and others who live in and visit these tops cities for their comments on what makes the weather in each so remarkable.

On each night of the series, The Weather Channel takes two contrasting weather extremes and ranks the ten cities from the top 50 markets that feel those conditions the most.

The series starts Monday night with the "Top Ten Hottest and Coldest," with some of the top contenders from Florida taking on their rivals in the West for the hottest spot in the United States. That's followed by a battle pitting those in the Midwest and Northeast facing off the king of cold.

On Tuesday night, it's a nation divided with "Top Ten Wettest and Driest." The East leads off with its major cities slogging through to see which one is the wettest. For the second half of the show, the action moves to the other side of the Mississippi River as the population centers to the West try to outlast one another for the title of driest city in the country.

The following day, many of the same cities that contended for the title of Driest City are back to see where the sun shines the most in "Top Ten Sunniest and Snowiest," though one of the hottest spots in the East threatens to play spoiler and take the crown. For the title of snowiest, the competition spreads from one end of the snow belt to the other with a tight race to see who plows the most powder each year.

The series wraps up Thursday with "Top Ten Windiest and Most Humid." Is Chicago really the windy city, or will another town blow in and take the title? At the other end of the spectrum, the cities in the second half of the show will never claim "it's just a dry heat." Find out where you're most likely to swelter with this list of soggy cities.

Only one city appears on all four nights of the series, Miami. Those with three appearances include Los Angeles, Denver, Orlando, San Francisco, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New Orleans, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Oklahoma City, and Cleveland.

While the "Top Ten" shows on The Weather Channel network feature the most extreme conditions in the top 50 markets, complementary information on weather.com, the network's companion web site, will feature the meteorological rankings in each category for cities and towns across the U.S., large and small ... an opportunity for International Falls and Embarrass, Minnesota to continue their debate over which one is really the coldest.

Each night "Top Ten" repeats from 12:00 - 12:30 a.m. and 2:00 - 2:30 a.m. ET following the premiere airing of the show from 9:00 - 9:30 p.m. ET.

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The Weather Channel, a 24-hour weather network, is seen in more than 90 million U.S. households. Its Web site, weather.com, reaches more than 25 million unique users per month. Its content is generally ranked within the 10 most popular in the U.S. by Nielsen//Net Ratings. The Weather Channel also operates Weatherscan, a 24-hour, all-local weather network available in 22 million households, The Weather Channel Radio Network, The Weather Channel Newspaper Services, and is the leading weather information provider for emerging technologies. This includes broadband and interactive television applications, with wireless weather products accessible through high-speed Internet services, phones, pagers, and personal digital assistants. The Weather Channel is owned by Landmark Communications, Inc., a Norfolk, VA- based, privately held media company.

Contact: Matt Boyter
770-226-2191
mboyter@weather.com

Source: The Weather Channel

CONTACT: Matt Boyter of The Weather Channel, +1-770-226-2191, or
mboyter@weather.com

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