Behind the Headlines

12:42 p.m. – the powdery snow is gusting through downtown Monroe. I’m about to head to south county, so we’ll see what the conditions are like there.

According to Kyle Kinsey, one of the road crew supervisors, he regularly checks in with two sources when he’s keeping an eye on the weather: www.weather.com and WTOL, Channel 11 News.

“It’s not like I sit down and watch all of the news casts,” he said. “But over the past eight years I have noticed that the emailed forecast I get from Channel 11 tends to be the most accurate.”

He said he used to have five or six forecasts emailed to him but found it was not necessary.

“I monitor it pretty constantly, but you never know what the weather is going to do,” he said.