16 July 2019
A 1954 Weathercast
Posted by Dan Satterfield
Today was our 65th anniversary at WBOC TV here on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. During our anniversary special at 7 PM, I did the weather as it would have been done in 1954. No radar, no satellite, and the extended forecast?
That was the day after tomorrow.
Times have changed!
I actually did the weather on a hand-drawn map for a couple of years at the start of my career. It was fun to do it the old way one last time!
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.
Yikes…i was born in ’54…in Ottawa, Ontario we had a meteorologist, Percy Saltzman who would, on the evening CBC news–in seemingly record time–chalk-flail isobars and cold and warm fronts on a blackboard with a map of canada. i remember this as early as 1958! and…on an old CRT round screen TV!
I have heard of him. Was this on the National or the precursor to it?
Dan