You are 100% right...
I can understand the decision of using a Weather station that covers the Caribbean, after all Dish has customers all around the islands. BUT, it is a badly produced channel (judging by the 2 minutes I could stand it), with HORRIBLE picture quality, and one of the WORST sound quality you can imagine.
One would imagine that in the time between the uplink and the actual availability there would be quality tests and calibrations. Doesn't seem so... They could have uplinked and made available the same day!