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Wx Wise 2
Wed Jul 28, 2004
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Hi, I’m Bryan Yeaton for The Weather Notebook. Yesterday, we talked to Lynn Elsey,
editor of a national magazine about weather, called Weatherwise. She said it is written
for a general audience, but not just…
LE: We have a lot of meteorologists who read it. We have a lot of weathercasters, so
weathercasters will read it; they’ve told us they use some of the articles for ideas for
things. Some teachers use it, read it for suggestions for things to bring into the
classroom. It’s not just Americans who are reading it. We’ve got readers in Australia,
we’ve got readers pretty much in every corner of the world.
BY: One of the things I like about the magazine is there’s so much variety packed in.
There’s the overview of the weather from the past couple of months. There’s the "you
be the meteorologist" part. Even the ads are – are interesting, if you’re a weather geek
like me.
LE: I want to make it something I want to read. Why is the weather that way? We’ve got
someone who’s working on something like going to Siberia. I’ve always wondered
what it’s like to live in the coldest place in the world. Or, what it’s like to live in the
hottest place in the world.
BY: Elsey has had her own brush with interesting weather: the British windstorm of
1987.
LE: I was driving back to London on the roadway and big – what they call, articulated
lorries – which are what we would call big trucks, were blown over, off the road. And
they looked like little kids’ toys. And all of a sudden you’d drive by and say: "Oh, my
gosh. That’s an enormous truck."
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