The Weather Man.

LOL! Although, sometimes they just guess. "Bright & sunny day, No chance of rain." Look out and it's pouring!! HA!

@perrone1 I agree Tony. I live in Ohio, the weather forecast is usually, "wait five minutes, it'll change."😂🤣

Modern news coverage has a weather orientation though, it is very polarized.

The 2 TV stations I check the weather on are very accurate.  One is in Maine the other New Hampshire.

The weather programs on TV today are a total waste of time.  The so-called experts try to be funny and they fail miserably.  All people have to do today is look at their phone and they know the weather forecast.  And being more honest, forget the phone and just look outside, you'll have your weather.  

@georgeschire  Guess you live in the wrong area or listen to the wrong stations. 25 years ago when I lived in Conn. they were terrible, here in N.H., Maine area the two I check are spot on these days.

I do not have a pocket computer phone [old flip phone for me, no body calls me and I have no one left to call] and looking out the window does not help me plan for tomorrow as the old saying goes "don't like the weather, wait a moment".  I don't watch the weather for the present weather [as you said look out the window] but the future weather.  I don't watch the weather on the TV itself but go the TV station weather app. on this computer.

Only job I know of where you can be wrong half the time and still get a paycheck.

The weather person needs to look out the window before reporting the weather.

George Carlin as "The Hippy Dippy Weatherman" pretty much got it right 

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It's really this simple.  Going out to church this morning, I stepped outside and realized I needed a jacket, it was chilly and windy.  Just now I looked out my patio door and it's snowing.  My point being weather forecasters are not needed and their TV/radio segments are a lot of mumbo-jumbo big words that no one really cares about.  They could sum it up in one short sentence.  Today it will be 29 degrees, cloudy with snow flurries.  THE END!

@georgeschire We are probably talking two different things here. I go on line to the TV stations website where I don't listen/watch the weather report, I look at the chart that displays what the weather will be hourly for the next 24 hours, temp, perspiration, wind, etc. Next I will check the chart with the 8 day forecast if I have to go out later in the week.  And if bad weather is forecast for today I may check out their radar to see exactly where the storm is.  I do not watch their broadcast and it is a pain to watch the news/weather because in the morning they repeat and repeat every 10 minutes.

@brush I totally understand that works for you.  For me though, I really do look outside, step outside, and then dress and prepare accordingly.  I always have a jacket, umbrella, ice scrapper in my trunk.  I'm prepared for "whatever" without having to rely on charts, graphs, and the time it takes to do so.  And the last thing I  don't do is listen to a radio or TV for weather.  I'm pretty much weened from listening to and/or viewing either, as they are nothing but opinions, news, and commercials.  My life doesn't need it.

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George Carlin as "The Hippy Dippy Weatherman" pretty much got it right 

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Today it was 90° in good ol' So Cal, where I live.  I'm gonna take off the roof panel of the 'Vette, grab the Big Boss, and go get a scoop of Handel's Ice Cream!