Ask Me About Being a Weatherman - Page 3

SneakyFerret · #21 10-11-2007, 10:35 PM

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Have you ever come up with a scheme involving giving false forecasts so that the golf course will be open for you?

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No but I never thought of it... sounds like a great idea.

SneakyFerret · #22 10-11-2007, 10:36 PM

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Why do you guys never get the weather right [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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Because most weather anchors are yahoo broadcasters who don't know the first thing about weather.

Avalanche333 · #23 10-11-2007, 10:38 PM

Pretty good ask me thread so far.

How does a forecasting competition work?

SneakyFerret · #24 10-11-2007, 10:43 PM

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Pretty good ask me thread so far.

How does a forecasting competition work?

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A bunch of schools are in it. We forecast one pre-determined city for two weeks, then the city changes. You forecast high, low temps, and precip amount each day. This goes on for a few months, and at the end, team(school) and individual scores are tallied.

Quicksilvre · #25 10-11-2007, 10:48 PM

When did you decide that this is what you wanted to do as a career? I remember meteorology being one of the first things I wanted to be when I grew up.

SneakyFerret · #26 10-11-2007, 10:51 PM

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When did you decide that this is what you wanted to do as a career? I remember meteorology being one of the first things I wanted to be when I grew up.

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^^^^^

That about sums it up. I pretty much always had a big interest in weather, and I grew up paying close attention to forecasts, thinking "I could do a better job than that!" Anyways, I started off in college as a biomedical engineering major. After I realized I had to get a 3.8 to even apply to the school, I was just like [censored] it and decided to just go for it with the weather gig.

ArcticKnight · #27 10-11-2007, 10:51 PM

Do you find the term meteorologist overused and misused?

How is someone in the US designated as a "Meteorologist."?

Toro · #28 10-11-2007, 10:52 PM

Do vacation area weather forecaster people intentionally lie about the weather so as to not hurt the local economy?

Example: Years ago we went to Cape Cod and it rained every day. After about three days we ran out of things to do and were fed up with the weather and were going to leave but the gd weatherman every night said the system would be moving out and there would be sun sometime during the day. Never [censored] happened and we stayed there all week bored out of our skulls.

SneakyFerret · #29 10-11-2007, 10:54 PM

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Do you find the term meteorologist overused and misused?

How is someone in the US designated as a "Meteorologist."?

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Well, I'm not sure how many of the "broadcast major" people who just do weather actually call themselves meteorologists, but if they do, then it's blasphemy.

I would think that in order to be called a meteorologist, you would need to have a degree in atmospheric/oceanic sciences.

SneakyFerret · #30 10-11-2007, 10:56 PM

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Do vacation area weather forecaster people intentionally lie about the weather so as to not hurt the local economy?

Example: Years ago we went to Cape Cod and it rained every day. After about three days we ran out of things to do and were fed up with the weather and were going to leave but the gd weatherman every night said the system would be moving out and there would be sun sometime during the day. Never [censored] happened and we stayed there all week bored out of our skulls.

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I really don't know, to be honest. I know of weather anchors who fudge the forecasts to look more attractive, so that the anchor would be more liked by the people. I really hate to see this... it's our job to give you an accurate forecast no matter how [censored] it is.