Key Highlights
- Social media weather forecasters span a wide range of reliability — from amateurs with no science background to accredited meteorologists.
- Kena Betancur/ hide caption toggle caption Kena Betancur/ When Christian Bryson needs quick weather information, like for this weekend's massive snowstorm, he doesn't wait for the 5 p. m.
- local newscast.
- Instead, he turns to Ryan Hall.
- "It's as if he's sitting in the living room with you tracking the storm," said Bryson, a 21-year-old meteorology student at the University of Tennessee at Martin.
