Every meteorologist I know has to put up with comments from people about getting paid to be wrong all the time. Another myth that we often hear is that severe weather comes “without warning” or “out of the blue.” This week meteorologists won a battle against this when Southern Living was forced to retract an article that described a recent weather event in Birmingham as having no watches, no warnings, and no television meteorologist letting people know there was danger. James Spann, famous television meteorologist from Birmingham, was quick to let them know that was unacceptable and that there were plenty of watches, warnings, and coverage of the storm. The author of the article apologized and Southern Living promised to write a future article describing how severe weather is warned by on-camera meteorologists. One win for meteorologists! Next step–stop people from complaining when your local broadcast meteorologist cuts into your show with an important severe weather warning that might save someone’s life. You can read the story at Slate.com here.
