Abstract
A quote that’s been paraphrased and attributed to everyone from baseball player Yogi Berra to physicist Niels Bohr speaks volumes about the art of presenting the weather to the public: “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Weathercasters stare down the uncertainties of a complex atmosphere every day. They also face recurring unknowns about their own careers, both on the personal level—an incoming news director can always decide to clear the decks with little or no explanation—and on the collective level.
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Henson, R. (2010). The Extended Outlook. In: Weather on the Air. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-935704-00-3_11
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