Aside from a few TV weather people who have retired from the Central Weather Bureau or the military, most weather reporters and readers are not trained in atmospheric sciences. When they handle stories about typhoons, they carelessly throw around specialized terminology and draw conclusions with only the vaguest notions of what they are talking about, creating misunderstandings and unnecessary alarm among the general public.
台灣除少數氣象主播是從氣象局或軍方退休，其他多數報導氣象的記者、主播，都缺乏大氣科學的專業背景，處理颱風新聞時，常胡亂引用專有名詞，一知半解就斷章取義。