Television Meteorologists Improvise During Lockdown

Betty the weather cat poses for a quick photo while preparing a
weather forecast for the Evansville, Indiana area, with her
meteorologist human, Jeff Lyons

Very many television meteorologists are giving their reports from home, given most of us are in lockdown while we wait for the coronavirus pandemic to at least ease.

That means these meteorologists need to improvise.  Some of them create new celebrities.  For instance, WFIE-TV Chief Meteorologist Jeff Lyons set up at home during the quarnantine to give his daily weather forecasts for the Evansville, Indiana area.

A few weeks ago his cat, named Betty, made a quick cameo during a forecast. Now, Betty is a regular on Lyons' daily forecasts and is his full co-host. 

There's even graphics that Betty uses to offer forecasts. For instance, when she's forecasting rain, there's an image of her tail going up vertically, and it turns into an umbrella to ward off the wet weather.

Betty the weather cat has become a star, having been seen worldwide in viral clips on social media.  It'll almost be a bummer when Lyons eventually goes back to providing forecasts from a television studio. I hope they find some way to keep Betty on the air.

Here's a clip of Lyons and Betty, then we'll move on to another television meteorologists who is making do just fine during these trying times.



You can't have a proper televised weather forecast without intro and outro music, so what do you do when you're working from home?

Here's Welsh BBC weatherman Owain Wyn Evans, who decided he need to figure out the BBC's outro music at the end of his forecast. So he came up with this totally mean drum solo: