to be on storm view

07:35 Jun 4, 2011 

In that case I stick to my provided answer... I would have chosen to alter it if given any clues (visual) that it was something else than an expression.... Sometimes visual elements force a translator to choose alternate wordings... Clearly, here it is not the case...

07:11 Jun 4, 2011 

Pour aller dans le sens de Tony M, I confirm, this is definitely not the title of a programme.

05:59 Jun 4, 2011 

One thing that makes me have some reservations about 'storm view' being the title of the programme is the way it is worded "They're still on storm view" — the use of the preposition 'on' would sound a little odd with a programme title, though one might perfectly well be 'on watch', 'on alert', etc. Equally, one might of course have said "StormView is still on (air)"... but that's clearly quite a long way from the source text.

05:55 Jun 4, 2011 

Storm watch certainly seem more familiar to my ears as well, however, as I suggested in my answer, storm view might just be the name of the broadcast destined to be a storm watch....

05:44 Jun 4, 2011 

Often in TV, we use the term 'watch' for some kind of programme / bulletin monitoring the progress of some kind of situation; one example might be the long-running 'Crimewatch' programme in the UK.

I've not heard 'view' used in this same way, but I can only imagine this must be the same kind of usage; perhaps not the title of the actual programme, but just that they are on some kind of standby or alert (he mentions 'breaking in', i.e. "We interrupt this programme to bring you the latest news about..."

Could you tell us please where this is set? Perhaps the US? That would certainly explain why the terminology sounds less familiar to my GB ears!

05:38 Jun 4, 2011 

Je pense qu'il s'agit d'un programme d'alerte météo permettant d'informer en tant réel de tout changement dans l'évolution d'une tempête, d'un cyclone etc...