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Lights, Camera, Action!
Wed Feb 12, 2003
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Hi, I'm Bryan Yeaton and this is The Weather Notebook. Most of us probably get our weather
information through television, local news, or The Weather Channel. Weathercasters seem to
have a glamorous job; do they? Our correspondent, Sean Potter, began his weather career at
KYMA TV in Yuma, Arizona. He tells us what it's really like.
SP: The day usually begins around one or two in the afternoon. That's the time that you
typically arrive at the station and start preparing for the day and start assessing what the
weather for that day is going to be like. This is usually done by pouring over a plethora of
maps and data from a variety of sources including the Internet and private data vendors. Once
the forecast is finished, it's time to start thinking about some of the graphics for the
weather segment.
BY: So, you've got your forecast done, you've got your cool graphics, now what do you do,
you're on the air?
SP: Basically, after you do your first newscast of the day, which for me was five o'clock,
I'd have about half an hour to go back to my desk and update all the temperatures and the
current conditions and check on any storm systems that were moving in and do it for the six
o'clock show and then you have a couple of hours to relax and grab a bite to eat and then
start updating things again for the ten o'clock or eleven o'clock newscast. So, it can
actually be a pretty long night depending on whether you're doing a 10 or 11 o'clock
newscast.
It certainly can. Tomorrow, Sean tells us about some of the other duties as assigned. The
Weather Notebook is a production of the Mount Washington Observatory, on the web at
mountwashington.org. We're supported by Subaru of America and the National Science
Foundation.
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