In the larger scheme of things, celebrating your local meteorologist is probably not high on the list.  However, in honor of today’s designation of National Weatherperson’s Day, I offer a rerun of this Forbes.com blog post by Marshall Shepherd of UGA, “Debunking 5 Myths about Meteorologists”.  Meteorologists are at work 24-7-366 (it’s leap year) providing monitoring and warning of potentially dangerous situations as well as helping people and businesses plan their daily activities.  A picture of one of my former students, Chris Tomer, a television meteorologist in Denver, is shown below from his early morning broadcast today.

UPDATE: Here’s a story from Weather Underground on five famous television meteorologists that you might not have heard much about.

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