“Summer! But then, I grew up in Pennsylvania. Like, ‘Oh, you get paid for being wrong!’ or ‘Hey, when’s the snow coming?’ Sometimes it’s ‘You look a lot taller on TV,’ or ‘You’re prettier in person.’ It's usually fun and cute.” Once I was grocery shopping in Savannah without my hair or makeup done, and someone walked up to me and said, ‘You know, you look a lot like our weather lady.’ A lot of times, people have a line rehearsed. “Especially in smaller markets, people really love their meteorologists. What’s it like going out in public when you’re a minor celebrity? You become part of their daily routine, and it’s fun to bring them that every day.” And it’s great to form friendships with co-anchors and with the people who tune in to watch you. “Even if I’m having a not-so-great day, I go to work, and because I have to smile and have energy on-air, I find myself having fun, and it raises my mood. My goal was always to work my way closer to home in Pennsylvania while advancing my career.” and now AccuWeather in State College, Pennsylvania. I interned at a station in Austin, Texas, and have had on-air jobs in Laredo, Texas Savannah, Georgia Raleigh, North Carolina Bowling Green, Kentucky. After graduation, I went to Mississippi State University to learn more about meteorology specifically. “When it came time for college, I knew I wanted to go to Lehigh, and Lehigh doesn’t have a meteorology program, so I found a way to make it work. That just sounded like the coolest job! After that, I was obsessed." “It all started when a local broadcast meteorologist came to talk to my fifth-grade class. From an early age, I knew how much of an impact the weather has. I would look at the weather section in my dad’s newspaper and lay out my outfits for the seven days based on that, posed as if I were wearing them, on my bedroom floor. That just sounded like the coolest job! After that, I was obsessed. In honor of that “revolutionary” weatherman, we talked to AccuWeather senior on-air meteorologist Ariella Scalese ’ 14. Jeffries, one of America’s first weather observers, began taking daily weather observations in Boston in 1774. That’s not so bad for predicting something as changeable as … the weather!įebruary 5 is National Weatherperson's Day, commemorating the birth of John Jeffries in 1744. But, in fact, the accuracy rate for a 24-hour forecast is about 95%, 86% for a three-day, and 75% for a five-day. It can’t be easy being a meteorologist - if the weather you forecast isn’t happening exactly the way you called it in someone’s backyard, they assume you got it wrong once again.
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