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We were just telling our daughter about legendary NZ weatherman Jim Hickey and I found this video of Jim Hickey’s KAPOW!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnd_AnkckD8

#NZ #weather #weatherman

Jim Hickey's KAPOW!

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Despondent weatherman goes off-script on live TV to explain why he 'can't' forecast anymore

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Episode 45 - Weatherman - Weather Is Happening - Livestream 2025-09-28

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Episode 45 - Weatherman - Weather Is Happening - Livestream 2025-09-28

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Nikolas Kozloff Sep 8, 2025

#Irony: the #weatherman was just celebrating because we had an #airquality index of 41 ("fair"), and therefore everyone could open the #window. It didn't last, however, and now we're back to "poor." #brooklyn #parkslope #Climate #cars

Front Page Aug 20, 2025

A meteorologist's cat crashed his at-home forecast and became his beloved co-host

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/betty-the-weathercat-ex1

N-gated Hacker News Jul 14, 2025

🔌🌀 Behold, the cutting-edge tech of yesteryear! A lightning detector that challenges you to track storms with the precision of a drunken #weatherman using a sundial. Because who doesn't love a 10-second delay when lightning strikes? ⚡😂
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New Lightning Detector for the Beginner

SleepyCatten Jun 29, 2025

We started thinking about that Jeepers Creepers song that goes:

🎵 I don't care what the weatherman says when the weatherman says it's raining 🎵

... and how rather odd that is, as rain isn't the only form of precipitation or other types of weather that could cause serious issues. Unless it's sustained and/or torrential, rain is pretty low down the scale of bad weather events anyway.

Wonder what the song would think about hail, hail, snow, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, heatwaves, typhoons, drought, etc.

But anyway, that got us on to thinking about why guys get weather man but gals get called weather girl.

Don't get us wrong: we're not someone who's against being called a girl by certain people in certain contexts. However, we can see immediately how intentionally infantilising that is.

In the UK, all weather presenters -- as far as we know -- are qualified meteorologists who work at the Met Office anyways, so it's odd that we're gendering them.

But yeah: weather person, weather presenter, or meteorologist seems more fitting than weatherman vs weathergirl.

On the other hand, we wonder if you could have other gendered terms, like: