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Ahhhhh....... so that’s her name! Thanks!

RhysJR post_id=63140 time= user_id=1340 Wrote:[quote=JamesWorldNews post_id=63128 time= user_id=1044]
Who’s the lady doing the weather on the News Channel this afternoon? Have never seen her before............

Assuming you mean at just before 17:00 GMT, it was Carol Kirkwood, usually seen on BBC Breakfast and BBC Radio 2 Breakfast.
Bit odd looking back through the iPlayer stream that Stav Danaos was on at 16:30 and Tomasz Schafernaker on every bulletin afterwards, so not sure why Carol turned up once in the afternoon.

Darren Bett looking very pleased with himself here! ?

https://up.metropol247.co.uk/scottishtv/...t_loaf.mp4

New England got dumped over with nearly 30 inches of snow. The Boston stations went all in.

Weather studio oddity just before midday

Earth Live, TVB (HK), 31 March 2022. The worldwide weather slideshow was imported to Hong Kong in 2003, and had a large internet presence with local parodies.

After losing their long-time sponsor in 2019, the show was pulled from the station's schedules (usually after the news) from 1 April onwards.
https://youtu.be/hQUDMC8A9wM
https://youtu.be/c05hl9DRs94
(Titles in traditional Chinese)

American meteorologists are always for the most part calm and collected in times of emergency. But you cant imagine those times when their own families are in the path of immediate danger....they might be slightly anxious.

WRC 4- NBC Washington DC was tracking a tornado when the path was directed at his neighbourhood. On air he had to call his son to tell him to take shelter in the basement. Ive seen several instances in they have had to contiue to work and their families are at risk at the same time.

https://www.adweek.com/tvspy/dc-meteorol...ly/240053/

Damon Lane Chief Meteorologist from KOCO - Oklahoma City was on the air whilst his home was in the path of a deadly tornado.
https://www.koco.com/article/damon-lane-...do/3804468

James Spann Chief Meteorologist ABC33/40 Birmingham was on air and text his wife as the tornado was tearing thru their neighbourhood. His own home was damaged but his wife was ok.
https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2021/...o-air.html
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This is likely a question that nobody can answer, but why is it that the 'HIGH' and 'LOW' pressure symbols on BBC Weather graphics are in a different font to the rest of the graphics? In the previous set they were set in Gill Sans despite Helvetica being used for every other element and in the current set they are in Calibri rather than Reith. It just seems a rather odd oversight and doubly odd considering it has happened twice with two different pieces of software.

Is this technology being used anywhere in the UK or other countries? Ive only seen it used on in the US for Severe weather coverage. I know its certainly not used for weather anywhere else. At least anywhere I've seen. Basically the CSO technology has the ability to track the fingers of the meteorologist so that he/she can "point/click/drag/select" multiple sources whilst at the green screen. Its been around for a while now, but is now much improved. Not every on air meteorologist uses it. Its certainly gotten better over the years. Early on you could see the frustration some had using it. But it allows the meteorologist to point out and analyze the storm instead of waiting or directing another meteorologist off screen to move the radar or select different sources. Keep in mind they all have different interfaces and dont all look the same. Seemed gimicky at first but it turns out saves time and resources as it allows their colleagues to look at other sources or track another storms, especially during a tornado outbreak when there are 3-5 tornado warnings at the same time for 5-7 hours or more.
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The Weather Channel is going all in this year, thanks to Bryon Allen's Allen Media Group's deep pockets. Just before Earth Day, it launched a two-hour block focusing on climate change affairs, named after its OTT streaming network focusing on such issues, Pattrn, available on their Local Now and TheGrio services. The new two-hour block airs after AMHQ and it is followed by Weather Underground TV at noon, rounding up the complete relaunch of TWC's dayside block, which began when Weather Center Live was replaced by the Storm Center block, resulting on the move of WUTV to the midday slot.



Additionally, the channel celebrated yesterday its 40th anniversary. Although the channel didn't celebrate the milestone with special programming, their have been looking back at the channel's history and future with special segments in and around programming and on their We Love Weather blog, including this IMR package with Jim Cantore:



Coinciding with such celebration, Allen Media launched an offshoot of the main channel, available on the The Weather Channel app, Local Now and TheGrio, The Weather Channel en Español. Oriented to the Hispanic American population, it offers a strict focus on forecasts and science-related content, encompassing the U.S. and Latin America. Unlike the main TWC service, it is being offered without cable authentication. It also plans to leverage the Local Now technology to offer Local on the 8s content in the near future. The service was intended to launch in 2020 as part of Allen's plans to increase their OTT offerings due to the success of the Local Now and Pattrn offers, but obvious reasons led to the delay.


The channel is edited by Sussy Ruiz, a veteran broadcast experience with over 20 years working for Univision's and Telemundo's O&Os, and the segments (offered in the style of OTT news channels, with lots of jukeboxed pre-recorded content) are being presented by OCMs with over 30 years of experience in local and national Hispanic TV newsrooms. Albert Martínez is the chief meteorologist of the venture (formerly chief meteorologist of Univision Noticias' national weather department), joined by Henry Golac (formerly with Telemundo Arizona), Milmar Ramírez (formerly with Telemundo 39/Dallas), Jessica Fernández (formerly with WSVN 7News), Abel Hernández (formerly in the Univision Noticias weather hub) and Lorena Lim (formerly with Telemundo Utah) as part of the launch team. Content comes from a secondary studio in their Atlanta HQ.

And here's a report about how the channel's look has changed since its launch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrcoj7r-4zo

HEre is a video I hope everyone might enjoy. In the video you see some really amazing moments from the GOAT's of Tornado Coverage like James Spann, MIke Morgan and of course Gary Englund. If you dont see the point of why weather is a big deal int he US and why it gets a very heavy investment and marketing push by local stations, hopefully this video gives you a taster. This video counts down the best moments in tornado coverage. The list, like most is subjective, but it kinda gives you an idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYIhNN8U3DY

Indeed, that is the real importance of severe weather coverage in the U.S., and even if viewers can get annoyed (one example is that of a Sinclair meteorologist in Dayton, after the ABC affiliate preempted The Bachelorette for wall-to-wall tornado coverage), it is a real source for viewers at home to get prepared for any kind of weather that may affect (and put at risk) their lives.

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Back to The Weather Channel, and their new Spanish language streamer, the overnight automated hours are not being filled (fortunately) with translated/dubbed versions of their long-form Natural Drama shows (some of them, like Storm Stories, have been translated/dubbed into Latin American Spanish for external distribution, the local Discovery Channel airing, in the early 2000s, selected episodes of that well-known long-form show), but rather they have taken the Fox Weather direction by offering an overnight broadcast in the style of Night Light. The show, called Twilight (not related to the film), airs from around 11pm-12am before regular programming resumes at 7am ET.

A nice touch on Friday's BBC News at One - Ben Rich highlighting the new Jubilee cities at the start of the forecast:

(21-05-2022, 01:10 AM)scottishtv Wrote: [ -> ]A nice touch on Friday's BBC News at One - Ben Rich highlighting the new Jubilee cities at the start of the forecast:

Well, except for Stanley in the Falklands.