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Your local forecaster. |
Telecommunications runners ferried the forecast output to a local weathercaster for Act Four. The meaning of the output was loudly debated by the on-air and off-screen members of the weather team. Then the on-air weathercaster presented his/her "forecast," hamming it up as much as possible for comic relief. At the conclusion of the "forecast," the instructor summarized the steps of the Forecast Factory process from beginning to end, emphasizing all the intricate scientific and logistical details behind the local forecast. Within approximately 50 minutes, the history of weather forecasting and the overall process of modern forecasting had been discussed and performed in considerable detail by the participants.
| "THE FORECAST FACTORY" | |
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| Your Role Is: TV Off-Camera Experts |
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| You Appear In: ACT FOUR: FORECAST DISSEMINATION |
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| WHERE GO: | To the North America poster |
| YOU NEED: | Attitude of know-it-all vs. TV know-nothing |
| WHAT DO: | ACTS 1-3: Pay attention! ACT FOUR: At the very end, after the Telecommunicators have delivered the forecasts, then... Talk with the TV Weathercaster, make a lot of comments and insults, and then throw your hands up. One of you then holds up the real weather map (get it from the TV Weathercaster) for the TV Weathercaster to point at while he/she gives the forecast. |
| IN REAL LIFE: | A lot of on-air TV weather people do have degrees in meteorology; a lot don't. Those who don't usually rely on National Weather Service or private-sector forecasting firms for their info. Trained meteorologists often don't understand how important good communication is; non-science TV people can communicate well, but some have a limited grasp of meteorology. |
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