According to the National Hurricane Center’s 11 pm Wednesday advisory, Tropical Storm Bret is 290 miles east of Barbados, with maximum sustained wind of 65 mph. It’s moving 16 mph to the west. A ...

For many years, as the science of human-caused climate change grew ever clearer, TV meteorologists avoided discussing the topic on air. Today, many weathercasters bring up climate change regularly. By ...

A survey of nearly 600 broadcast meteorologists revealed that just over half believe global warming is real; even fewer believe humans are behind it. Ira Flatow and guests discuss how TV ...

A recent survey demonstrates that many forecasters embrace their role as informal science educators. Edward Maibach and Andrew Light say it's an opportunity to boost public understanding of global ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell rang an old bell in early December when he called out TV weathercasters for ...

FAIRFAX, Va., March 29, 2010—In a time when only a handful of TV news stations employ a dedicated science reporter, TV weathercasters may seem like the logical people to fill that role, and in many ...

Even if you did know the address of Ed Maibach’s office, you could walk right past it without a second thought. It’s in an anonymous-­looking building in a perfectly ordinary stretch of the Virginia ...

In 2024, we’ll turn to television meteorologists to better understand how to restore the public’s trust in news. At a time when trust in news is approaching historic lows, many Americans across ...

Clockwise starting at top left: Elisa Raffa (KOLR10/KOZL), Keith Carson (WLBZ/WCSH), Jorge Torres (KOB-TV), Heather Waldman (WGRZ). This story originally appeared in The Guardian. It is republished ...

Tom Skilling, the longtime WGN-TV chief meteorologist, announced his retirement Thursday during the evening news. An always sunny presence, whatever the weather in Chicago, Skilling delivered a stormy ...