Who is your Favourate TV/Radio Weather Forecaster?

Deep Easterly

Well?

MUSEIST

Evelyn,

she ramps good:D

chughes

Have a look over on the Television forum for the thread on RTE weather girls. Jean Byrne has a lot of fans.

Su Campu

Has to be the Eagle. May not be the most free flowing speechwise, but he's honest and gives some interesting insights in dah big drawwwwwhedda accent.

Second Evelyn. Apart from regularly running out of time at the end of the slot and getting cut off, she's a good flow of speech.

Last is a tie between Gerry and Jean. They're too deliberate and laboured in their delivery, using the same phrases and motions every time (Gerry "Hello, and a verrry good evening to yoooooo", and Jean "Bittttttterly cold" even when it's 4°C)

I do think though that the RTE forecasters are not as good as the BBC guys, who seem to be better and more confident in their delivery.

Joe Public

Which ones are forecasters/presenters and which are presenters only, I don't think Nuala Carey is a forecaster. You might as well include Martin King if presenters are included.

Deep Easterly

Joe Public wrote: »

Which ones are forecasters/presenters and which are presenters only, I don't think Nuala Carey is a forecaster. You might as well include Martin King if presenters are included.

When Nuala Carey presents the weather, she forecasts it, which makes her a forecaster.

The Express

Deep Easterly wrote: »

When Nuala Carey presents the weather, she forecasts it, which makes her a forecaster.

Disagree. Met Eireann forecast it, she reads the autocue.

Which would make her a presenter.

Deep Easterly

The Express wrote: »

Disagree. Met Eireann forecast it, she reads the autocue.

Which would make her a presenter.

a presenter who forecasts the weather on TV, regardless of autocue.

foundry

Eh Martin King of course!!

Squiggle

Deep Easterly wrote: »

When Nuala Carey presents the weather, she forecasts it.

She doesn't.

Deep Easterly

Squiggle wrote: »

She doesn't.

She does. :pac:

Squiggle

Deep Easterly wrote: »

She does. :pac:

Oh no she doesn't . Karina Buckley FTW as a presenter though !

revr

Rob McElwee that does the bbc weather he loves the snow

Nehaxak

That guy Francis I think his name is, from Sky News.

John mac

Deep Easterly wrote: »

When Nuala Carey presents the weather, she forecasts it, which makes her a forecaster.

Nope she is just a x aa girl.. dont think she has a degree in Maths .


Nope

BA in English and Sociology

Pangea

No Daithi o shea or Martin King?
This is an OUTRAGE lol
Ohh Murphy just said snow for northwest for the weekend , he must of seen this poll and tried to get us back on his side
By the way my answer is Michael Gallagher :P ,
He was on the tv news one day so that surely counts?

Hal1

Wtf!?, where's the Lisa Burke ftw! option?

Queen-Mise

Mine is a past presenter from bbc (cant think of his name). They will be no hurricane in the uk, cue, 8 hrs later hurricane arrives. Greatest bit of forecasting ever !!!

Hal1

Queen-Mise wrote: »

Mine is a past presenter from bbc (cant think of his name). They will be no hurricane in the uk, cue, 8 hrs later hurricane arrives. Greatest bit of forecasting ever !!!

Michael Fish? he does a weekly forecast on Netweather now. That was hurricane Charley in '86 iirc.

SpitfireIV

Queen-Mise wrote: »

Mine is a past presenter from bbc (cant think of his name). They will be no hurricane in the uk, cue, 8 hrs later hurricane arrives. Greatest bit of forecasting ever !!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqs1YXfdtGE

Edit: Actually, just watched another vid on Youtube, an interview with Fish and he says the weather report was taken out of context and it was another hurricane, one in Florida that he was referring too.

Deep Easterly

Interesting results so far.

Hal1

Thanks for that, very interesting clip. Can't see results :rolleyes:

Deep Easterly

Hal1 wrote: »

Thanks for that, very interesting clip. Can't see results :rolleyes:

That is my fault Hal. I clicked the wrong button when doing up the poll. If a mod or admin can change that to make them visible then please help.

The Eagle is coming out tops so far.

ronnie3585

M.T. Cranium

ronnie3585

ronnie3585 wrote: »

M.T. Cranium

+1

Trogdor

Deep Easterly wrote: »

That is my fault Hal. I clicked the wrong button when doing up the poll. If a mod or admin can change that to make them visible then please help.

The Eagle is coming out tops so far.

Done:)

MetLuver

Evelyn Cusack is at 20%?? I thought she would be much higher than that. I think her forecasts are always alot more informative than any of the rest. The Eagle is good enough too, but I sometimes get the impression hes showing off when he says things like 'I think this is what is going to happen' like he is the only one who can see whats coming. Good enough ramper but Evelyn will always be the best imo:)

nacho libre

Evelyn is the only one who seems to have a smile on her face when she mentions the word sneachta. contrast that with Gerry who looks like he is about to hyperventaliate each time he mention the s word.

So i'm sorry, for all the Eagle's greatness and likability as a forecaster, i have to go with Evelyn as she seems to be the only snow fan up in Glasnevin.

anotherlostie

Evelyn's only problem is that she runs out of time on half her forecasts and hastorushthelastfivesecondsoftheforecastandstillgetscutoffgoodevening.

dolphin50

Lads hands down - http://www.rte.ie/weather/presenters/brackenu.html

Deep Easterly

My faves would be a toss up between Ev and the Eagle. Both make their TV & radio forecasts interesting by personalizing it. Both have a habit of throwing in various historic titbits and tend to show more interesting charts in their forecasts for us meres to see where the weather is coming from etc.

Joan is up there too on my list. Very very graceful forecaster and someone with a bit of class

suitseir

Sky News = Francis or Lisa Burke. They, in my opinion, are the best and give a projected detailed forecast for the best part of a week.:)