READ MORE: THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE NEWSCASTĮventually, the meteorologist writes out the forecast for the next seven to ten days: sky conditions, high and low temperatures, wind speed and direction, and the chance of rain. All these sources must be monitored throughout the workday, especially when there’s a major weather event. And since the weather is always changing, new data is arriving constantly. Forecast models, many of them, are reviewed. Surface observations and upper-air data are studied. The forecast must be right or nothing else matters. If you’re wondering why the weather team hardly ever leaves the weather center in the cool, dark corner of the studio, here are six reasons. At times, they communicate on more than one platform simultaneously.Īs another broadcast meteorologist told me during a recent coaching session, “I start working the minute I walk in the door, and I don’t stop for ten hours.” They are also responsible for producing the weather and delivering the weather on-air, online, and on social media. Local TV station weather teams don’t just forecast the weather. And I’m only a little biased in saying that, given I was an on-air broadcast meteorologist for over three decades, most recently at KTRK ABC13 in Houston. His favorite things about the city are the great Italian restaurants and, of course, the golf courses.Broadcast meteorologists are some of the hardest working, busiest people in the television newsroom. A native of New Rochelle, New York, Joe currently resides in Olathe, Kansas with his wife Jaye Lynn and their 2 cats. As a matter of fact…during the golf season as a way of helping out the golf community and local charities as well…he actively promotes 100’s of different golf fundraisers around the area both on the air and through Joe’s Golf Tournaments on. When he is not working, Joe enjoys traveling, sports, and especially playing golf…he even has a hole-in-one. Joe considers one of his career highlights to be helping our viewers get through the tornado outbreaks that have affected the area for the past years including the KC Tornado Outbreak. Louis University with a bachelor’s degree in meteorology. He most recently was honored as having the Best Weathercast in the state of Missouri by the Missousri Broadcasters Association He also has been awarded the highest honor possible for a TV meteorologist when he obtained the Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM) designation from the AMS, which fewer than 650 people have. As a way of giving back to the weather community, he used to judge TV candidates nationwide in order for them to obtain this prestigious certification. Both organizations have given him their Seal of Approval for excellence in weather broadcasting. He was named president of the KC Chapter of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) for both 2001- 03, and again in 2014 and has been Vice President from 2008-2013… and also is a member of the National Weather Association (NWA). Talking to adults…he loves speaking about how TV stations now cover bad weather…it certainly has changed a lot over the last 10 years or so. Over the years he’s done local radio forecasts for KMBZ-AM and WHB-AM.īesides his FOX 4 weather forecasts, Joe gives dozens of speeches and severe weather seminars for the young and old each year. He also has been Chief Meteorologist at WAYK-TV in Orlando, Florida and KFKF-FM in Kansas City and WCEE-TV in Mt. It was there that the Associated Press voted him the best Weathercaster of the year for the state of Texas. This award-winning meteorologist was Chief Meteorologist at KOSA-TV in Midland, Texas for six years. Winter remains his favorite weather season because of those hard-to-forecast snowstorms. Growing up in New York, Joe remembers being fascinated by clouds and snowstorms at the age of 10. He joined the station in January 1995, but weather has been an important part of his life since childhood. His mantra for every weathercast is to teach his viewers something that they may not know about…something that they can’t find on their weather app. You can watch him each weeknight at 5, 6, 9 and 10 p.m. Joe Lauria is the evening news meteorologist for FOX4.
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