Should Weather Forecasters get paid on how accurate forecast is ?

Question

Do and Should Weather Forecasters get paid on results --ie if the forecast is accurate or not ?

It seems to be a very easy job to me --right , wrong or nearly they still seem to keep their jobs ?

Answer 1

No. Watch the movie Weather Man with Nicolas Cage.

Station Assistant Director: You should say "We might see some snow, but it might shift South, and miss us."

Dave Spritz: I can see it. I sorta of wanna understand it. Why is it?

Station Assistant Director: Well, it's Canadian trade winds.

Dave Spritz: Behind all of it?

Station Assistant Director: Yeah, this will get pushed by wind out of Canada.

Dave Spritz: So what's it gonna do?

Station Assistant Director: I don't know. It's a guess, it's wind, man. Blows all over the place.

Answer 2

They are normally just the presenters, do you think Ulrika Johnson was ever a meteorologist?

Answer 3

meteorologist are paid profesional and its the only job you can mess up and get away with it.

personnally they are a public service and shuold be made to appologise when they mess up which is often true.

a recent servey from the mett office forexample

44% accurate this is no where nera good enough

the public demand a reasonalbly accurate forecast but with modern satellites and technology they are all incompetant

forecasting is a science and science is all just best guess

it wonder if well ever get to grips with weather forecasting.

Answer 4

Weather Forecasting is not as easy as everyone says it is. Nobody in this world can be perfectly right 100% of the time. Everybody makes mistakes.  Some areas in the country are easier to predict than other parts of the country, so that has a lot to do with it.  Most meteorologists do they best they can and i don't think you can do any better.  I'm sure some meteorologists might get raises if they are trusted and liked by many people, but that is about it. I don't think the pay should determine how accurate you are. All meteorologists go to school for a long time and are experts.

Answer 5

If you applied that rule, no one would go into the profession and you wouldn't have a clue what "might" be coming other than to open the window and look out.

We ARE talking about nature here, which is always unpredictable.

I think they do a bang up job with what information they have available.

g-day!

Answer 6

Absolutely!