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Female meteorologist3/10/2023 ![]() ![]() It would be sacrilege to compete with the map. More than anything, says Lloyd, the dresses work because “they do not battle against the map. “People look at you before they go to work so you want to mirror the way they are likely to be dressing.” “It’s important to look smart and presentable,” adds Ghaffar. She’s worked at The Weather Channel for 13 years and hosted Your Weather Today, on the television network with fellow meteorologist Marshall Seese. Over the years, millions of people have relied on her expertise with critical weather news. “It’s quite a conventional broadcast.” Certainly, the dresses reflect the female power dressing template of our age – seen everywhere from Alan Sugar’s boardroom to Canary Wharf. Heather Tesch is an on-air meteorologist for. “Weather is never going to be cutting edge fashion.” says Lloyd. Most jobs are client facing, however, there are research-driven meteorology positions available. In high-fashion circles, an androgynous jacket would be judged more current than bodycon – just look at the recent shift towards loose shapes in Victoria Beckham’s wardrobe – but the silhouette looks unlikely to leave weather studios for some time. Meteorologist jobs are mostly concentrated on determining atmospheric process and phenomena in order to accurately forecast the weather. Maybe I’m old fashioned,” she adds, “but I do prefer jackets – they hide a multiplicity of sins, particularly the lump of your microphone box.” Undeniably, bodycon dresses are more obviously feminine than the boxy suit jackets of the 80s and 90s – that Homeyee dress, says Lloyd, is designed to be flattering: “It has that thing of the black going down the side and at the waist to give that Jessica Rabbit shape. So if you find something that works, you tend to go for it in an OTT way.” Apart from at Christmas, when you have a huge captive audience, and I did get lent some fabulous garments – like one velvet jacket with a little fur collar.” Colour isn’t the only consideration: “You also don’t want to bare your arms in a formal broadcast. And while designers might offer to lend clothes to newsreading colleagues, says Lloyd “they don’t usually want to dress the weather people. “What people forget about the weather is that you usually don’t have any budget for clothes but you are on TV on a nightly basis,” says Lloyd. “They just wear a different tie each day and that’s it – they’re dressed.” For women, choosing what to wear is both low budget and high risk. So you are confined to red and blue – sometimes even purple has too much green in it.” And if you are using a green screen you can’t wear green, as you would disappear. “You can’t do florals, stripes or checks they shimmer and shake on television. “You have to remember that, with the weather, you are terribly confined,” she says. Find high-quality stock photos that you wont find. The ubiquity of one dress doesn’t surprise British weather veteran Siân Lloyd. Search from 36 Female Meteorologist Photos stock photos, pictures and royalty-free images from iStock. ![]()
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