I wanna be a Weatherman!

[RkyMtnHigh 0]

I want to be a weatherman because I can forecast the weather WRONG every day and still keep my job

I can tell a million people to prepare for a hurricane and laugh as they freak out at the grocery store and gas pumps...then only a wind/rain storm comes through. Ah...marketing at its finest

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[Muenkel 0]

Holy Shit! I want to be a weatherman also. I'm not kidding. I've worked in front of one of those green screens before. They take a little getting used to, but when you master them...you're cool.
Chris

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Chris

[cocheese 0]

OMG you could do the Wacky Weather for FAUX News or some shit. I see ratings through the roof. Let me call my agent.

[2fat2fly 0]

Submit a test tape to "Naked News" I'll edit it for you

I am not the man. But the man knows my name...and he's worried

[cocheese 0]

You can be a weather "Babe", but i don't think you would like being a man after being a woman. Well i wouldn't like it. I mean if i was a woman. I mean if you were a woman, i mean if you were a man, oh never mind man, i mean woman.

[RkyMtnHigh 0]

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Holy Shit! I want to be a weatherman also. I'm not kidding. I've worked in front of one of those green screens before. They take a little getting used to, but when you master them...you're cool.
Chris

I can just see it now:
Imagine standing under an overpass, with a mic and a raincoat...yelling about the conditions as someone has a strong fan blowing (simulating high winds) and a prop guy dumping a bucket of water over your head (simulating tourential downpour)...leaning forward as if you are struggling to present the "news"....

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[kenz 0]

thats the greatest idea i've heard in a while :)

"life does throw curveballs sometimes but it doesn't mean we shouldn't still swing for the homerun" ~ me

[AggieDave 6]

Here's the state of the art tool that all weathermen (women) use. If you don't believe me, go buy one (they're not that expensive) and use it. It'll be more accurate than anything else you use!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00001ZWV7/102-0844444-0109745?v=glance

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[missg8tordivr 0]

In a raincoat, with a mic in your hand trying to report the weather while the wind and rain beats down.....hot mama!!

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F LORIDA!

[RkyMtnHigh 0]

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In a raincoat, with a mic in your hand trying to report the weather while the wind and rain beats down.....hot mama!!

It'd be more like a drowned RAT

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[Muenkel 0]

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Holy Shit! I want to be a weatherman also. I'm not kidding. I've worked in front of one of those green screens before. They take a little getting used to, but when you master them...you're cool.

Chris

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I can just see it now:
Imagine standing under an overpass, with a mic and a raincoat...yelling about the conditions as someone has a strong fan blowing (simulating high winds) and a prop guy dumping a bucket of water over your head (simulating tourential downpour)...leaning forward as if you are struggling to present the "news"....

Now you're really getting me horny.

Chris

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[bhammond 0]

when I was in Southern California, I could guess the weather better than the local weatherman easily, but since moving to the front range in Colorado I have a new respect for weather people.... I hear them say rain tomarrow and at first would laugh.... but dam if they wernt right.... some places its a art ... some places its shooting fish in a barrel

[LyraM45 0]

Hahaha.... actually, I'm a Meteorology student at Florida Institute of Technology, and this stuff isn't as easy as it looks. In all honesty, they are dumbfounded as to why this thing didn't strengthen in the straits. The only thing that I can see effecting it enough is the small upper level low ahead of it, but all the models forecasted that to lift out earlier today and not be a factor, but I guess they were wrong.....

The sea surface temps are a few degrees cooler than in the year or two previous, which makes a big difference and any meteorologist can look and see that. But when all the models say one thing and you think another, you kinda just go on the model unfortunately and in some cases, like this one, you can get burned.

It's why they call us "professional liars."

Apologies for the spelling (and grammar).... I got a B.S, not a B.A. :)

[jumpingbean001 0]

Here! Here! If I were a weatherwoman, I would have to sit back when i am done and watch random videos of the goofballs running to the stores and gas stations and spending those hard earned wages on my sick joke and just have a few beers.

that sounds kind of twisted!

Let's have fun! :)

[AggieDave 6]

Back in 1998-2000 there was a guy that was at Texas A&M when I was there that was a meterology student. He ran a campus weather website on his computer in his dorm room. He would put the overall weather then the daily would have stuff like "if you have a 1:30 class today, take an umbrella since it'll be raining when you get out of class." I'll be damned if he wasn't right on the money nearly every time.

Honestly there are those of us that still think that the radar dome on top of the O&M building at TAMU isn't really a radar but a government funded device that controls the weather.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[RkyMtnHigh 0]

Aren't you a pilot as well? So the combo of that plus being a meteorologist, I can expect to see you on the Weather Channel as our newest StormChaser someday?

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[Lindercles 0]

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Honestly there are those of us that still think that the radar dome on top of the O&M building at TAMU isn't really a radar but a government funded device that controls the weather.

I'm sure it's there to control something, but somehow I doubt it's the weather...

[lawrocket 3]

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can tell a million people to prepare for a hurricane and laugh as they freak out at the grocery store and gas pumps...then only a wind/rain storm comes through.

So, they can't say what the weather will be like tomorrow or next week or next year, but we've got people up in arms because of the weather prediction 50 years from now?

p.s. Sorry, bill. And yes, I DO believe that global warming is happening. Disregard all SC implications...

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[simplyputsi 0]

I have a few theories on weather people.
Anyone not working for NOAA or Weather channel just uses those sites to predict their weather and then passes it off as their predictions.

There is actually a giant dart board for predicting.
Or there is a giant floor with different scenarios, cloudy, rainy, hot, cool. The dart board and floor change at least with the seasons.
Oh oh and there are special cases, ie severe pop up storms. Then there is a special board that has hail, and tornado stuff on it.

I have a question though, do any of the damn meterologists actually use what they learned these days or just go off the computer models. A computer is only as smart as it's programmer ya know. So if you think one thing and the computer tells you otherwise, why don't you take a chance and tell the public computer models say this but "I" think this.
Afraid you will loose your job???

Skymama's #2 stalker -

[riddler 0]

In Colorado, it's even easier to be a weatherman.

1. Look outside.
2. Whatever it is today, it'll be the same tomorrow, with a chance of precipitation.
3. In two or three days, it'll be sunny again, and remain that way for the rest of the week.

I've lived here 32 years, and I would guess that 99% of all weather predictions are the same as above, even if they're wrong a lot of the time.

Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

[SkydiveStMarys 0]

I'm curious. Where would you attempt to put the microphone???








In your bra maybe??!!!

Bobbi

A miracle is not defined by an event. A miracle is defined by gratitude.

[LyraM45 0]

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Aren't you a pilot as well? So the combo of that plus being a meteorologist, I can expect to see you on the Weather Channel as our newest StormChaser someday?

I was in the flight program here until aviation fuel costs went sky high and now I can't afford it. My official major is still "Aviation Meteorology," but I'm not on the flight line anymore. As for a storm chaser?? I dunno about that one!

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I have a few theories on weather people.
Anyone not working for NOAA or Weather channel just uses those sites to predict their weather and then passes it off as their predictions.

This also used and kinda still is my theory. I just got done a three month internship with the NOAA National Weather Service for the Philadelphia area. I gained so much respect for these guys because they are really down in the trenches doing the actual science. NWS is responsible for all of your warnings and say-so's. All of the local news meteorologists were calling our office to see what our take was on things so they could base their TV forecasts on it. So I guess it's true that more commercialized and private sector meteorologists do look to the NWS for their two cents. BUT, I've also been on the flip side and, through a program at my school, are familiar with work over at ABC in orlando. Their head meteorologist, Tom Terry, is a great guy who actually graduated with a meteorology degree from University of OK, along with two of my own professors. He really does do all his own forecasting and their team of Meteorologists are actually degree accredited meteorologists who know what they are doing. Whenever you see a station advertising that their meteorologists are "AMS certified," it basically means it's some bimbo with a broadcasting degree that took a quick few hour long course on weather basics. Since I'm working my butt off through this Meteorology degree and these people haven't but they get hired for this job because they are "pretty,".... I guess I'm a little biased and I should shut up before I get myself into throuble.

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I have a question though, do any of the damn meterologists actually use what they learned these days or just go off the computer models. A computer is only as smart as it's programmer ya know. So if you think one thing and the computer tells you otherwise, why don't you take a chance and tell the public computer models say this but "I" think this.
Afraid you will loose your job???

The forecasts weigh greatly on the models. These models compute everything that we could do out by hand (which would take us hours and hours) in seconds. Not only do we have numerous raw data from models that we can look at to help our forecast, but there is also a collective group of forecasters at the National Center for Enviromental Prediction who put out a forecast to take a look at along with all the models you can look at on your own. For the most part, if you look at a few major ones like an ETA MOS, GFS, NAM, they are all pretty spot on. Say if precipitation is moving in, they all might have it coming in at the same time, but might be off on the precip totals by a few tenths of an inch each, and thats where the individual forecasters decision comes in to play with a "well, how much should I forecast for precip??" ....and then you have to throw in your own two cents. You get to know which model handle which weather situation better and you know which one to trust for your forecast area. As for Ernesto, it looks like all the models dropped the bomb on this one and all the Meteorologists are dumbfounded by it. Sure, if the individual Meteorologists instinct and all he knew was telling him different from the models, he could have put it out, but why risk it when the models are pretty close most of the time? They were just doing what has worked for them (and all Meteorologists, not just at the NHC) in the past and unfortunately, got burned this time. Either way, I don't think the guys at the NHC would loose their job, but I have heard stories of a few TV meteorologists who predicted a HUGE snow event, never got a flurry out of it, and then up and left the show for "personal reasons" or some other crap; so, I guess in a way it can happen.



I'm sorry for this being long and winded, but I figured I would answer some questions and rant a little bit.

Apologies for the spelling (and grammar).... I got a B.S, not a B.A. :)

[2fat2fly 0]

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I'm sorry for this being long and winded,

Now that's funny coming from a weather prognosticator in training

I am not the man. But the man knows my name...and he's worried