Ginger Zee Quotes

I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist.

I began as a weatherman and I learned very quickly I wasn't very good at it.

I always had becoming a meteorologist as my goal from the second I decided, while I was in school, just to study meteorology.

Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar.

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.

The weather records of the U.S.A. are the best kept and most accessible in the world, thanks to consistent government/military taxpayer support. There are longer European data sets, but the U.S.A. data is enough to forecast major extreme events.

The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science, not just for prediction but for modification and control. Two technologies were maturing together: the digital computer and the space satellite.

Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.

Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.

It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.

Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.

When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.

The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

Perhaps one day earthquakes, hurricanes and financial crashes will all be predictable. But we don't have to wait until then for seismology, meteorology and economics to become sciences; they already are.

Some days, I'd feel better with Punxsutawney Phil in the Oval Office - at least he doesn't lie about the weather.

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

I've never been one to bet on the weather.

Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.

The TV weatherman has always been one of the best, most secure jobs. They change anchors, they change the set, producers come and go. But the weather person hangs on forever!

I'm a big follower and reactor to weather.

I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.