Where have all the weather men gone?

LETHAL LADY

A fallen hero?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUdU56qaGUU

M.I.A?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xK9H63FEhs

Is there an agenda here?

Cookie_Monster

Breezy, sunny spells with a chance of showers

repeat x 365

LETHAL LADY

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Breezy, sunny spells with a chance of showers

repeat x 365

I knew you couldn't resist Gerald!

topmanamillion

A bit of skirt is more appealing than a qualified meteorologist who knows what they're talking about.

Ciderswigger

Which one used to give the little wink when he finished his spiel?

"A very good evening *wink* and goodbye"

kneemos

topmanamillion wrote: »

A bit of skirt is more appealing than a qualified meteorologist who knows what they're talking about.

Siobhan Ryan has it all so.

topmanamillion

Ciderswigger wrote: »

Which one used to give the little wink when he finished his spiel?

"A very good evening *wink* and goodbye"

That was Gérard "the winking weatherman" Fleming. In fairness to him it was a nice little ploy and made him very popular.

LETHAL LADY

topmanamillion wrote: »

A bit of skirt is more appealing than a qualified meteorologist who knows what they're talking about.

Interesting!!!!!......but as a lady and a license payer myself...... who loves to know about the weather too...... and a lover of a bit of Evelyn or Jean......... I do miss the gentleman's delivery. Where are they?

KungPao

I've never (and will never) forgive Sky for giving Francis Wilson the heave-ho.

One eyed Jack

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

Interesting!!!!!......but as a lady and a license payer myself...... who loves to know about the weather too...... and a lover of a bit of Evelyn or Jean......... I do miss the gentleman's delivery. Where are they?

Have you seen some of the weather presenters on TG4?

There's your answer, like freakin' models they are, both men and women! For some reason they RTE doesn't want to stick them in front of a camera on RTE1 and instead settles for the farmers favourites - Evelyn and Jean :rolleyes:

Just be grateful they're not Martin King! It's a freakin' weather forecast, not an audition for the next dryballs lotto presenter

Totofan99

This has been bothering me also. A bit of skirt is all well and good, but this is the weather we're talking about!

The person delivering it better be a qualified meteorologist. If they get it wrong there will be anarchy!

ANARCHY!

Brendan Bendar

Jean is good enough for me.

Give her a belt of the wand too, so I would.

Always gives moist steamy weather.

Billy86

I'll just leave this here, so.

Good old Arthur.

BattleCorp

We need weather girls like this.

http://www.google.ie/url?url=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DePG6zUYvUZg&rct=j&frm=1&q=&esrc=s&sa=U&ved=0CBQQtwIwAGoVChMI_dTisennyAIVAioeCh3k6QFA&usg=AFQjCNFi1-tSShSh9NMwA-JvlcvJgH0vLQ

py2006

BattleCorp wrote: »

We need weather girls like this.

http://www.google.ie/url?url=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DePG6zUYvUZg&rct=j&frm=1&q=&esrc=s&sa=U&ved=0CBQQtwIwAGoVChMI_dTisennyAIVAioeCh3k6QFA&usg=AFQjCNFi1-tSShSh9NMwA-JvlcvJgH0vLQ

Holy mother of divine Jayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyysus...

Avatar MIA

Gerard has gone onto a Senior management post in RTÉ.

I personally don't think you need a degree in meteorology to read from a teleprompt.

It was agreed with RTE and Met Eireann that the main news bulletins would be conducted by qualified staff, but other weather bulletins could be presented by non-qualified.

Personally I'd be happy if part of my licence fee was used to bring that girl over from Mexican TV.

I'd certainly look forward to the monthly full moon!

Sir Osis of Liver.

sonny.knowles

Totofan99 wrote: »

The person delivering it better be a qualified meteorologist.

Why? Can someone else not prepare the script? The same as they do for news readers?

hardCopy

BattleCorp wrote: »

We need weather girls like this.

http://www.google.ie/url?url=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DePG6zUYvUZg&rct=j&frm=1&q=&esrc=s&sa=U&ved=0CBQQtwIwAGoVChMI_dTisennyAIVAioeCh3k6QFA&usg=AFQjCNFi1-tSShSh9NMwA-JvlcvJgH0vLQ

¡Ay, caramba!

Medusa22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTwiK8z2m_Y

topmanamillion

topmanamillion wrote: »

A bit of skirt is more appealing than a qualified meteorologist who knows what they're talking about.

All the weather presenters on RTE are meteorologists, including Jean.

The both prepare and present the forecasts.

parasite

Candie wrote: »

All the weather presenters on RTE are meteorologists, including Jean.

Nuala Carey, Helen Curran and the rest are qualified meteorologists now ?
post #16 explains it, I don't think RTE have had a single man among the non-qualified weather presenters ever since that policy started

kneemos

parasite wrote: »

Nuala Carey, Helen Curran and the rest are qualified meteorologists now ?
post #16 explains it, I don't think RTE have had a single man among the non-qualified weather presenters ever since that policy started

A sexy policy.

somesoldiers

topmanamillion wrote: »

That was Gérard "the winking weatherman" Fleming. In fairness to him it was a nice little ploy and made him very popular.

he was on that awful Ploughing Live show that RTE did back in September, where the presenters kept looking at the wrong camera. missing their cues etc

DEFTLEFTHAND

somesoldiers wrote: »

he was on that awful Ploughing Live show that RTE did back in September, where the presenters kept looking at the wrong camera. missing their cues etc

Ploughing Live was one of the finest pieces of programming produced by RTE this year. That Marty Morrissory is a wonderful character, we need him on our screens more often.

jamesbere

BattleCorp wrote: »

We need weather girls like this.

http://www.google.ie/url?url=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DePG6zUYvUZg&rct=j&frm=1&q=&esrc=s&sa=U&ved=0CBQQtwIwAGoVChMI_dTisennyAIVAioeCh3k6QFA&usg=AFQjCNFi1-tSShSh9NMwA-JvlcvJgH0vLQ

Can't beat a bit of yanet garcia. I think met eireann should be looking at hiring her

hatrickpatrick

What qualifies one as a meteorologist? Can you do it as a full time level 8 degree or is there a shorter training course?

kneemos

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

What qualifies one as a meteorologist? Can you do it as a full time level 8 degree or is there a shorter training course?

The winking weather man is a nuclear scientist on the side.
Siobhan Ryan has a rake of degrees.
Don't know about the rest or what makes them end up in the Met Office.

DivingDuck

So long as the words are the correct words and read in the correct order (i.e., prepared by someone who understands the report), why would it matter?

It's like expecting the dragons on Game of Thrones to be played by actual dragons.

Harry Palmr

DivingDuck wrote: »

So long as the words are the correct words and read in the correct order (i.e., prepared by someone who understands the report), why would it matter?

It's like expecting the dragons on Game of Thrones to be played by actual dragons.

Everyone on screen is supposed to be writing their own forecast scripts as far as I know.

hatrickpatrick

DivingDuck wrote: »

It's like expecting the dragons on Game of Thrones to be played by actual dragons.

Wait a minute... What are you implying? :eek:

DivingDuck

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Everyone on screen is supposed to be writing their own forecast scripts as far as I know.

But what does it matter if they aren't? So long as accurate (as accurate as an Irish forecast can ever be, at least) information is presented, why would anyone care if the person delivering that information can explain how it was derived?

They will never get into the intricacies of meteorology during a brief TV forecast; it's not relevant to their audience. Even if they did, a presenter could still delivery the information accurately by reading or learning a script, just like actors do.

Muahahaha

Candie wrote: »

All the weather presenters on RTE are meteorologists, including Jean.

The both prepare and present the forecasts.

Nuala Carey isn't. There was also a girl there called Ursula Bracken who left a couple of years back. Before working in RTE she was a school teacher and had no meteorological qualification. The majority of presenters do have the qualification but its certainly not all of them

DivingDuck

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Wait a minute... What are you implying? :eek:

They're actually stunt dragons.

Sorry to burst your bubble.

(The officers on the bridge of the Enterprise aren't real Star Fleet officers, either. Sorry, man.)

riffmongous

I was in the studio a few years ago and there was no teleprompter. I don't know how the non-qualified people make their reports but the meteorologists have a separate office they use to get the latest reports and forecasts and then practice it a bit before winging it before the cameras, no scripts written, only slides prepared.

You can't properly see your slides either once you start, it's just a bluescreen behind you and the television screens showing what's happening are located off to the side so you can't look at them since you have to look straight ahead into the camera

ofcork

Yeah John Creedon was on the other night and nuala carey showed him the ropes,that bluescreen is strange alright btw where is Audrey Mcgrath gone?

topmanamillion

http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/healthandlife/yourhealth/the-shape-im-in-siobhan-ryan-broadcast-meteorologist-321895.html

This is a very interesting interview with siobhan Ryan where she discuss how tough being a meteorologist actually is. She doesn't get a telle prompter and she also works 12 hour night shifts in met erinn.

DivingDuck wrote: »

So long as the words are the correct words and read in the correct order (i.e., prepared by someone who understands the report), why would it matter?

I think it makes a big difference. If you compare the likes of evlyn cusack with a weather presenter that isn't qualified/any of the crowd on tv3 there's no contest.

Cusack regularly explains what various isobar formations and other things mean and it can be very interesting. Compare that to someone whos reading off a telle prompter and you can tell they haven't a Frank and Sue what they are talking about.

DivingDuck

topmanamillion wrote: »

I think it makes a big difference. If you compare the likes of evlyn cusack with a weather presenter that isn't qualified/any of the crowd on tv3 there's no contest.

Cusack regularly explains what various isobar formations and other things mean and it can be very interesting. Compare that to someone whos reading off a telle prompter and you can tell they haven't a Frank and Sue what they are talking about.

There is absolutely nothing preventing these explanations from being included in pre-written prompt text or learned lines beforehand, though. If they're intended to be simple enough that the general public can understand them, I see no reason why a presenter couldn't understand them enough to read them with clarity and conviction.

...And even if they can't, they can still read them out. Do you think the actors on CSI or Big Bang Theory understand half of their lines? I would doubt it. It doesn't stop them from being considered convincing enough that millions of people tune in every week.

topmanamillion

DivingDuck wrote: »

There is absolutely nothing preventing these explanations from being included in pre-written prompt text or learned lines beforehand, though. If they're intended to be simple enough that the general public can understand them, I see no reason why a presenter couldn't understand them enough to read them with clarity and conviction.

...And even if they can't, they can still read them out. Do you think the actors on CSI or Big Bang Theory understand half of their lines? I would doubt it. It doesn't stop them from being considered convincing enough that millions of people tune in every week.

They are professional actors and most are stage trained, there's a big difference between that and a bit of eye candy from Dalkey who's simply there for her looks.

TheLastMohican

Bob Dylan knew ........ Subterranean Lovesick Blues ..........

Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says he's got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doing it again
You better duck down the alleyway
Lookin' for a new friend
The man in the coonskin cap,in the big pen
Wants eleven dollar bills but you only got ten

Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot
Talkin' that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phone's tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early May
Orders from the D.A. look out kid
Don't matter what you did
Walk on your tip toes
Don't try "No Doz"
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows :pac:

Get sick, get well
Hang around a ink well
Ring bell, hard to tell
If anything is goin' to sell
Try hard, get barred
Get back, write braille
Get jailed, jump bail
Join the army, if you fail
Look out kid
You're gonna get hit
But losers, cheaters
Six-time users
Hang around the theaters
Girl by the whirlpool
Lookin' for a new fool
Don't follow leaders, watch the parkin' meters

Ah get born, keep warm
Short pants, romance, learn to dance
Get dressed, get blessed
Try to be a success
Please her, please him, buy gifts
Don't steal, don't lift
Twenty years of schoolin'
And they put you on the day shift
Look out kid
They keep it all hid
Better jump down a manhole
Light yourself a candle
Don't wear sandals
Try to avoid the scandals
Don't want to be a bum
You better chew gum
The pump don't work
'Cause the vandals took the handles

RobertKK

topmanamillion wrote: »

That was Gérard "the winking weatherman" Fleming. In fairness to him it was a nice little ploy and made him very popular.

It was 'nothing to write home about'.