So if I had a dime for every time someone asked me if I was on TV, wanted to be on TV, or worked at a TV stations I'd be rich! Unfortunately, meteorologists on TV generally are not real meteorologists, just college graduates with communication degrees. There are some legit ones who really know what they're talking about, but the rest have a 'certification' i.e. they don't know how to do a triple integral and they don't care how the quasi geostrophic vorticity equation works to allow people to forecasts the dynamics of the atmosphere.
TV stations do a lot of things for ratings...but this is something I never thought would happen, and as funny as it is it truly makes anyone with the title meteorologist lose all credibility.
Sadly, this dancing 'meteorologist' will make more money working in a top 10 market like L.A. then I could ever dream about making...
hahaha woowwww. That was interesting. lol
ReplyDeleteThe first time I realized the people on TV didn't actually HAVE to know meteorology was when I met Jim Cantore. He went off on this rant about how one of the girls on the weather channel had only been hired because of her looks, she didn't know crap about metr, and wasn't even a good newscaster (or whatever they are called). It was amusing...but so true!
That is sad! But the video is pretty entertaining. lol Sorry to admit it. Do they still introduce them as a meteorologist or as the weather man when they start the segment? I feel like if you were super passionate about it you could convince Marissa to sue them for false representation or something. lol
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