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To pick up the weather you need to be able to tune into the lower end of the VHF (very high frequency) band. This used to be packed with TV channels, but now they’ve mostly moved up to UHF (ultra high frequency), with the lower frequencies being phased out.

And now the onset of digital TV means that all analogue signals, even the UHF stuff, will be switched off, and new TVs won’t be equipped to tune into these analogue signals at all. This means that anyone with a brand new digital TV is going to miss out. It’s only a minor tragedy though; you can always go and dig the old set out of the attic. And if you haven’t got yourself a new set just yet, what better excuse to stick with what you’ve got.

Just because TV’s going digital, the laws of physics have no plans to follow suit, so these weather events are going to be on the same part of your dial for years to come.