I see.

I guess what i was thinking is why were dispatchers diverting into a place that was going to get socked in?

Earlier this summer I flew into ATL with a high chance of TSRAs and so our dispatcher loaded us with fuel and a Augusta alternate. Well the storms hit and we got vectored from the northeast to southwest and held for a while but thanks to the extra fuel we got in. But while holding you could tell the storms were going NW to ESE, as in towards AGS. MGM and BHM were clear. But 6 or 8 planes maybe more go to AGS including at least 1 international. Then guess what, they land and AGS gets hit with TSRAs. Once AGS was clear ATL got hit again and ground stopped, once the ground stop was lifted the weather was in AGS. Once AGS cleared ATL got hit again. mGM and BHM were clear mind you this whole time.

BTW we were waiting for a FA crew that diverted to AGS when we were holding and were now stuck in AGS. They eventually canceled the flight and gave us new FAs who like us had been waiting 5-6 hours for pilots who were... stuck in AGS. That went over poorly since we could have left ATL on time but instead were landing rwy 33 in DCA at 0330.

All that to say someone with the weather channel app on their phone could have easily said don't go there because that's where the weather is going. but we are operating somewhat in the blind when flying. Had we been able to "see" better there was no way we would have gone east but rather west even if the airports had a lot of diverts. At least they were clear.