Originally Posted by Jim from Boston

...The last channel I hit is called Weatherscan. It's a continous local Doppler covering Metro Boston for a radius of about 50 miles, with weather data, e.g. wind speed and direction, and forecasts updated cyclically over about every minute...Weatherscan is a most convenient and informative source. The Weather Channel used to show local Doppler with current conditions every 10 minutes as "Local on the Eights," but they seem to have abandoned that when I watch it in other cities, and I don't anymore here in Boston. For locals around Boston with Comcast, Weatherscan is channel 245.