New Blog
Ran into this Blog:
Rising Slowly
The author is based in the U.K. and writes about weather and forecasting and the science behind meteorology. Here is a sample post:
bq.
A forecaster's lot
Pity the poor weather forecasters. These highly-trained professionals end up risking their backsides to report on extreme weather conditions for their TV station executives.
bq. Just ask Phil Maddocks, from the New England town of Framingham:
Your chief reporting skill as a meteorologist is a willingness to stand outside in the worst of any storm while on camera. This demonstrates to viewers that you really must know what you are taking about, because if you didn't, would you really continue to stand out there in the middle of the blizzard/hurricane/tornado/flood?
bq. He's got a point, you know. More often than not (certainly in the UK), TV forecasters are professionals. Scientists. They studied for many years and took lots of difficult exams. Now, at the peaks of their careers, some TV producer calls them up and says: "Sian, love, would you mind reporting on the hurricane for us please? Find a nice stormy seafront to stand on. Ta."
Heh... There is one poor soul on a local television channel that Jen and I have dubbed "Parka-Boy". A cruel science if one desires a television career...
This Blog has been added to the Blogroll in the Science and Medicine section.
Posted by DaveH at January 31, 2005 9:29 PM