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Expert Opinion
Tue Nov 09, 2004
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Since we get a lot of our weather information from TV, I wondered about how the folks
who tune in feel about their meteorologists. So, I asked the experts on just about
everything: Tom and Ray, from NPR’s Car Talk.
Click: I lived in Texas for a while and in Texas the weather was the same just about
every day. Hazy, hot and humid. And there was no art to meteorology. So they resorted
to ... beauty contests. The various stations would have, basically, a competition with
the other stations to see who had the most beautiful meteorologist. And I enjoyed
watch – I used to watch the weather on every station.
Click: I happened to wake up this morning to a TV meteorologist. He was so excited.
He was trying to make this into the biggest news of the century. When I finally realized
what he was saying, he was saying "It’s going to be cloudy today." But to hear him say
it: "You’ll never believe this – we got a front coming in here and we got a bottom going
out there and we got a back going in the front and the front going in the back – oh,
come on. They are ...
Clack: Well they – it’s just like all of the media. They’re all bo-oh gus.
Click: Well, they’re all alarmists and they’re all trying to get you to stay tuned to their
station and they - you know, they’ve cried "wolf" too many times.
Clack: So every storm that comes up the coast is the storm of the century – you better
go out and buy all the bread you can.
Clack: Even when there’s no storm. And we’re sick of you – you phony meteorologist
people.
Clack: So what do you do, Bryan?
Um… The Weather Notebook comes to you from the Mount Washington Observatory,
with funding by Subaru of America.
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