Forecasting Fun

The tranquility of summer poses quite the challenge to TV weathercasters. Not so much in forecasting the weather, but in keeping weathercasts interesting. When the weather is hot and dry every day for weeks, its tough to avoid redundant, boring presentations. We have to be creative and find new angle at telling the same story. It could be just a matter of using different words than "hot" and "dry". Thesauruses prove helpful during the summer and so does weather history. I'm a big fan of climatology, which offers a myriad of statistics regarding temperature and precipitation extremes for the area. If the weather isn't particularlly interesting on a given day, climate data from the past can be compelling and really give an otherwise mediocre weathercast some drive.

John Cameron