Rob McElwee weather

[Yer_Maw]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/images/wea_mcelwee.jpg

This weather forcaster guy really creeps me out, talks in a really slimy way like he has a fetish for the weather. Watch out for him, his weird and very very dangerous.

Michael fish 4 eva

[Goonie]

look at that brow action

[Yer_Maw]

Dont look directly at the rediculous mono brow! thats how his evil powers take hold!

[Goonie]

too late i've turned to stone

[Yer_Maw]

The first and last paragraphs are the best

The Rob McElwee Fan Club

A long time ago, I fell in love with Rob McElwee. Not for his suave good looks, you understand. Nor really for his (substantial) meterological skill and accuracy, although he is undoubtedly one of the best forecasters we have. In fact, it took me a while to figure out exactly why his broadcasts pressed my buttons. When I did, I was saddened that nobody seemed to have sung his praises adequately on the web (at least as far as I can find), so resolved to create this page to explain.
Style & Presentation

I could mention his smart, stylish appearance, or his authoritative yet smooth and laid back manner. But that, to me, is secondary. What matters is that Rob McElwee presents the weather in a positive light. It is something to be marvelled at, to get excited about. His enthusiasm for his subject is as infectious as that of the venerable Johnny Ball (though his presentational style couldn't be more different!)

Rob avoids many of the cliches that other presenters overuse, but in particular he refuses to submit to the lazy thinking of sunny good, rainy bad. The band Half Man Half Biscuit summed up this attitude perfectly with the line "Opinionated Weather Forecasters telling me it's going to be a miserable day... I quite like a bit of drizzle, so stick to the facts." When Rob McElwee is presenting it, the weather is never "miserable" or "bad". It's interesting...
Content

A Rob McElwee forecast frequently contains nuggets of real meaty meteorology. He doesn't just tell us what the weather is like now, but why it's like that, and he does it without patronising or condescending.

If the weather isn't doing anything particularly interesting in the UK, he'll take us off to some other part of the world. Sometimes he'll do this anyway, just to tell us something about a kind of weather we don't normally get here. In case you want to know more, he's probably told you what this meterological feature is actually called, so you can look it up.

Asked why he wanted to be a weather forecaster, Rob replies "I wanted to interest people in the weather". It shows, and he does.

Rob is the only current TV forecaster (that I'm aware of) who routinely gives us more, far more, than the bare minimum UK forecast. This is a sad state of affairs, and it only looks like getting worse.

Unfortunately, contact between Rob and me has broken down, because my TV died a year ago and we have yet to replace it. So I am not the best person to be writing a fanpage for Mr McE, given that I have no current information at all. He may have retired for all I know. If not, and if anyone knows how to get hold of his radio schedule so I can hear his silken voice once more, please get in touch.

[FiST]

never noticed that guy you're talking about, but i am sure that monobrow does have evil powers.

it was this weatherman that always used to give me the creeps.


http://www.bishopton.org.uk/images/sloss_peter.jpg

[Lady E]

whats his name?

not john kettley of yore?

[FiST]

peter sloss is the guy i posted, think he was just scottish telly weatherman.

[scott confusion]

Who is the weatherman who is on tarant on tv i think?? who always goes nuts when he gets something wrong...

[Paddy]

david brain has always freaked me out. canny find a pic though...

[Sheridan]

this is one of my local weathermen. he is very slimy.

[Paddy]

he looks like a fuckin date rapist.

[Sheridan]

hahaha!! :D

yeah I can't watch him because he creeps me out so much.