Not just any bubbles, but frozen bubbles! This youtube video was taken last sunday on the summit of Mt Washington, where temps were at a balmy 33 degrees….BELOW ZERO! Now that’s what I’m talking about.
Weather Plus is a channel used by NBC stations to air their own version of “The Weather Channel.” Usually it’s 29 minutes of commercials / computer generated maps, and once in a while they will have someone on live. One of our graduates, Chris Gloninger used to work on it.
Why am I bringing this all up? Gizmodo found something neat today. During one of their airings in Providence, the computer encountered a Microsoft Visual C++ Error and was stuck on the screen. Looks like it could be a Nor Easter I say
From all of us here at The Human METAR (just me), we (I) want to wish you a happy thanksgiving!
I have been getting a lot of work done here. I do have to do some work at home, but it won’t be brutal, it will be brutal next week when I come back however. Two weeks of crazy and then finals, then it will be DONE!
As a special treat (being bored at work) I have decided to go a little throwback today. On previous blogs I had this segment up, but got rid of it because of it’s lack of “professionalism”. However since this is somewhat related to weather, it’s time to whip out the segment I like to call:
So you know who’s been grinding my gears recently? Jillian Barberie. Don’t know who I am talking about? Take a look at this video:
She is the weather “forecaster” for the NFL pregame show on FOX. Now she does not have a degree in Meteorology, but rather Broadcasting. And that’s another issue right there. A producer doesn’t care what degree you have, they just care if you can smile and point towards pretty colors on a map.
But back to Jillian, what pisses me off is that she hardly does any work, yet she’ll get more money than probably the average worker with a masters in meteorology. She’s on for an average of less than a minute, and all those graphics are probably gathered by some intern (maybe a met major, or it could just be some Joe the Plumber who steals the graphics from weather.com)
This is her weekly bit (researched very thoroughly )
1) Stand in a stupid pose with her hands behind her back to show as much cleavage as possible
2) Point at whatever is at the map and call it a basic name (cause we all know upper level troughs are close enough to be called surface cold fronts)
3) Read the forecast for the game that the intern puts up
4) Let Terry Bradshaw flirt until the James Brown look-a-like moves on to another topic
And that ladies and gentlemen, is what grinds my gears (Have a good Thanksgiving!)
Wow I got a comment Response. I nearly jumped out of my seat…”SOMEONE ELSE IS READING THIS!?!?!”
Let’s look at a comment efeion said about my master’s statement in the previous post:
“Wait til I get my Masters“, that statement deserves an AWESOME. However what are you going to say to people when you finally finish school? ^_^
Don’t worry efeion, I have a plan all figured out. In (hopefully) 2 years, when I get my masters, I will be able to respond to the question, “What’s the weather going to be like?”, with:
“I have to get a job before I can give out a good answer to that” — Jared Rennie
Then, when I do get a job, I can say this for the rest of time
“I’ve been working all day, I’m not giving forecasts during my off-time” — Jared Rennie
It’s BULLET PROOF! Oh well, have a good weekend everyone!
