Willard Scott Quotes

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.

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

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

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

Do you think it will rain? Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man? No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.

Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.

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.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

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

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

I'm a big follower and reactor to weather.

You can't say for certain what will happen to the weather in the long term.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

I rarely watch TV but I guess I'd watch the weather report since I fly so much.

Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

It’s very hard to predict the weather. Predicting human affairs is very difficult.

Among all of our uncertainties weather is the most basic. We can’t live without it and we can’t control it.

Meteorologists are pretty faces reading scripts telling you whether it's going to rain tomorrow.

The weather is the weather. You have to deal with whatever is out there.

Meteorologists don't use a script, and most create their own graphics and certainly put together their own forecasts. Most of us went to school to become scientists - at least I did - and studied thermodynamics, physics, and tons of calculus to take this young science to the next level. Our accuracy is amazing and will only continue to improve.

In Finland and the U.K. you can't predict the weather.

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday.