He had a six - decade broadcasting career, including a stint as the first
weather forecaster on ABC's Good Morning America, but late in life became known for his crusade against the truth about global warming.
«If you think being
a weather forecaster on Earth is difficult, it can be even more challenging at Titan,» said Scott Edgington, Cassini's deputy project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «We know there are weather processes similar to Earth's at work on this strange world, but differences arise due to the presence of unfamiliar liquids like methane.
Interestingly, all
the weather forecasters on BBC channels are completely audible — perhaps they could share their training system with the rest of the media?
The public views the meteorological community in a monolithic way and seems prepared to accept the opinions of TV
weather forecasters on issues such as global warming, in spite of the fact that this community has most often no expertise on this topic.
Not exact matches
Considering that the media plays up the worst possible scenarios in everything — you would think that a winter snowstorm was an assault
on the existance of all humanity in its path the way some
weather forecasters talk about it — the constant inflation of the danger posed by ordinary events, it is no wonder that people are fearful.
Led by town Supervisor Kelly Myers, village Mayor William Murphy, and police chief Joseph Sinagra, discussions centered
on what
weather forecasters and state and county emergency management officials were saying might happen when the storm hit.
When Mother Nature wields her fury through natural disasters such as tornadoes, hurricanes and earthquakes,
weather forecasters and emergency personnel alert local communities based
on input they've received from event modeling and simulations.
For the most part, forecasts of its impacts
on weather patterns were borne out, but
forecasters fared relatively poorly in California, which relies
on El Niños to deliver rains to parched areas.
New radar technology will allow
forecasters to better «see» extreme
weather, as will potential improvements to satellite technology, as well as computer models that run
on more powerful supercomputers.
But
forecasters say it could nudge
weather patterns in other areas of the globe, especially if it persists or intensifies, and could boost global temperatures — following a 2014 that was already the hottest year
on record.
There are mechanics and electricians, chippys and project managers, chefs and field assistants, radio (comms) operators, meteorologists and
weather forecasters, pilots and plane engineers, base assistants (who drive the heavy machinery) and so
on.
And it being Texas, the
weather forecasters seem to have this special talent for not really knowing what is going
on!
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On time scales from decades to months, fluctuations in ocean conditions present persistent challenges to climate scientists (see the «pause» in warming) and
weather forecasters.
In making its seasonal prediction,
forecasters cautioned that there are large portions of the country for which there are no clear indications whether it will be a warmer, colder, wetter, or drier than average winter, largely due to a fickle El Niño event that may have petered out too early to have much of an impact
on North American winter
weather.
Has your local
weather forecaster ever weighed in
on human - driven climate change, or has he or she avoided stepping into such politically charged terrain?
While horizontal winds may not often pass through the vertical curtains, the curtains themselves create the important «trade winds» and «westerlies»
on which sailors and
weather forecasters rely.
British astrophyscist and
weather forecaster, Piers Corbyn confirms Berkland's predictions
on Climaterealists.com website (March 22, 2011) and warns the dangers are «imminent.»
Meanwhile, Britain's leading independent long range
weather forecaster, Piers Corbyn, speaking
on his WeatherAction.com website reports, «the world is now in one of its most extreme solar - lunar driven
weather and earthquake / volcano events situations for at least 66 years and very likely twice that.»
He is in fact a
weather forecaster — a very different matter — and has published no peer - reviewed papers
on either topic since 1986 (10).
I knew in my teenage years that I wanted to become a
weather forecaster and I can remember watching Bert Foord and Barbara Edwards
on the TV, and starting to learn about the
weather maps and the different
weather that the different
weather patterns gave.
In your editorial, you acknowledge your lack of expertise
on the subject, but defer to
weather forecaster Piers Corbyn due to his alleged accuracy in predicting British
weather (that accuracy being generally exaggerated, with many counter-examples).
But it has also created tensions between two groups that might be expected to agree
on the issue: climate scientists and meteorologists, especially those who serve as television
weather forecasters.
If
weather forecasters can't even guarantee that their predictions for next week will be correct, how can «climatologists» guarantee what the climate will be like in x numbers of years hence, no matter how many millions are spent
on super-computers?
Based
on extensive Siberian snow cover during the fall, the researchers correctly forecasted cold
weather for much of the U.S., while most other
forecasters predicted warm
weather for the U.S.. For a comparison between predicted and observed temperature anomalies, please see the following images: forecast temperature anomaly Jan - Feb - Mar 2013 and observed temperature anomaly Jan - Feb - Mar 2013, U.S. only.
Boykoff observed that in the mind of the public, local
weather forecasters — many of whom do not have a science degree — have as much credibility
on climate issues as experts.
I did find this
on MySpace: «I have been spending time working
on my hobbies, and figuring out how the
weather really works, much to the chagrin of the camp of modeling based
forecasters.»
We now almost never hear the power structure paid «
weather forecasters» referring to snow levels based
on elevations.
Satellite data gives
forecasters a leg up
on severe
weather.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 25, 2011 — As the United States experiences and recovers from tumultuous
weather, with parts of the South and Midwest reeling from the destruction of fierce recent tornados and flooding,
forecasters predict shifting
weather patterns and many named storms as hurricane season officially begins next week
on June 1.
Because
weather forecasters had mostly failed to predict heavy snowfall for today, many road crew personnel were off for an extended holiday weekend, meaning there were few snow plows and salt trucks
on the road when the snow began to pile up.
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Two devastating hurricanes have come and gone and
weather forecasters are keeping their eyes
on other storms forming in the Atlantic.
We're making progress
on the base this week but within a 6 hour period we usually go from a 0 % chance of rain to it actually raining (no love STL
weather forecasters).