{"id":5992,"date":"2016-02-05T09:43:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T14:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5992"},"modified":"2016-02-05T13:50:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T18:50:16","slug":"happy-weatherpersons-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/02\/happy-weatherpersons-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Weatherperson&#8217;s Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the larger scheme of things, celebrating your local meteorologist is probably not high on the list. \u00a0However, in honor of today&#8217;s designation of National Weatherperson&#8217;s Day, I offer a rerun of this Forbes.com blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marshallshepherd\/2015\/11\/01\/debunking-5-myths-about-meteorologists\/#2157d5b01447\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> by Marshall Shepherd of UGA, &#8220;Debunking 5 Myths about Meteorologists&#8221;. \u00a0Meteorologists are at work 24-7-366 (it&#8217;s leap year) providing monitoring and warning of potentially dangerous situations as well as helping people and businesses plan their daily activities. \u00a0A picture of one of my former students, Chris Tomer, a television meteorologist in Denver, is shown below from his early morning broadcast today.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/blog\/JeffMasters\/five-weathercasters-who-made-history\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a> from Weather Underground on five famous television meteorologists that you might not have heard much about.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/chris-tomer.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5993\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5993\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/chris-tomer-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"chris tomer\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/chris-tomer-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/chris-tomer-104x138.jpg 104w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/chris-tomer.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the larger scheme of things, celebrating your local meteorologist is probably not high on the list. \u00a0However, in honor of today&#8217;s designation of National Weatherperson&#8217;s Day, I offer a rerun of this Forbes.com blog post by Marshall Shepherd of UGA, &#8220;Debunking 5 Myths about Meteorologists&#8221;. \u00a0Meteorologists are at work 24-7-366 (it&#8217;s leap year) providing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5999,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions\/5999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}