While on-air forecasters can be seen as more lighthearted television personalities, some have been making an effort in the past five years to share ‘a bigger picture’ with their audience in light of extreme weather events
Forecaster Warren Dean recalls feeling helpless as a deadly heat dome hovered over British Columbia last summer.
Dean is among several Canadian on-air weather personalities who say they’ve been shifting their tone and approach in light of worsening climate change. That’s meant reminding herself that it’s OK not to end weather forecasts in a “happy and pleasant place,” she said. “Something that all meteorologists are dealing with around the world is, how do we communicate risk in a way that’s well understood by the public?” he said. “I certainly think it’s a work in progress.”
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