Why are so many weathermen gay?

I will tell you that all the weathermen in Chicago are balding fat asses.

LOL OP!

Andy Avalos is not fat!

Because doing the weather is manufacturing faux drama out of ordinary natural phenomena. Perfect for them.

They don't do a lot of "work," they get to wear fantastic clothes, and get their ego stroked during stupid personal appeariences.

Only in America! In Holland they're all depressingly straight family men.

Here in South Florida, most of the TV meteorologists are women.

I've always wondered this also.

I've always wondered the same thing, OP. Seriously, what are the reasons?

Surprise rainal.

In Austin at one point in the 90s all 4 local news networks had gay weathermen.

For whatever reason, a lot of gay men are fundamentally performers who like attention (yes, I'm generalizing). If you can't act or sing, why not do the weather on TV?

(I think the Weather Channel must weed them out, though, because you don't see many clearly gay guys on the air there.)

R12 Bingo is your name-o. A lot of gay men love performing. I can't think of any gay meteorologist on The Weather Channel. When The Weather Channel was bought by NBC Jeff Ranieri, a gay meteorologist, worked for NBC. He was the senior meteorologist yet The Weather Channel hired Bill Karins and another weather person.

Who?

The University of Tennessee offers a course for prospective weather guys leading to AMS approval. The chairman of department is gay. He encourages his favorite boys to go into television and helps them through his contacts.

Back in the 90s, I remember there were a lot of cute, young weathermen on the Weather Channel.

Here in CT, the CBS station has 3 weathergays, NBC has 2, ABC has 1, and FOX has none (though their former chief meteorologist was the gayest of the gays)

Former BBC weathergay Tomasz Schafernaker even appeared in a gay magazine in a state of undress, while still under contract.

Weather Channel's former winter weather expert was gay but low key. Not sure where he is today.

I dont' care if he's gay or straight but I would like to see Jim Cantore do the weather in the nude just once. He's hot enough in a polo shirt to cause me to palpitate.

I think it all goes back to the early days of TV, when you didn't need to know anything scientific to do the weather on TV - it was all about having a pretty face.

In those days, they were "weathergirls" - now they're just "weather gurrrls!"

R3, get a new pair of glasses. You probably get all wet for Jerry Taft.

Too many viewings of this video as young gaylings.

... and how could we ever forget ' Cockroach meets Weatherman?'

R1, you must be referring to Tom Skilling, who is balding and paunchy. And also a closeted gay. Unless you can think of another reason why a late fiftysomething man lives with two male "roommates."

r4 wins!!

Not sure, but I'm glad this one is. I spent an evening with him and he was handsome, had an awesome physique, and was a nice guy.

They were deeply moved by the Wizard of Oz.

R10 is a winner

Yes, but did you FUCK HIM, R27?

Last year we had a thread about a weather guy who woke up naked in his hottub with his arms around a dead guy. Anyone remember that?

R30 We did spend the night together....in bed. He was better looking than his picture btw.

The weathermen are gay because stations prefer not to have their gays as the news anchor. So to be inclusive, the stations stick the weathermen on for five minutes at the end of the show.

Does this mean Al Roker is gay. And I doubted my pingo'meter

R34 Al is queer and questioning.

Anyone know about that new guy in the Detroit area, Keenan or something? He pings.

(R35). Hmm, could this be the much talked about Matt Laurer affair? And everybody thought it was Natalie Morales, Savannah Guthrie, the chick in Canada, etc.

[quote].. and how could we ever forget ' Cockroach meets Weatherman?'

We won't. LOL

I have such a crush on Weatherman Tucker Barnes from the Washington DC area local Fox 5 Morning News. He's adorable and has such an adorably sexy voice.

Any scoop on Fox 5 NY weatherman Mike Woods? He sets my ping-o meter off.

I used to see ABC's weatherman Sam Champion at this gay club on Sunday afternoons.

I thought I'd heard Mike Woods is gay. There was a FOX 5 TV promo a few years ago that had all the personalities dancing on a pier and Woods REALLY got into it.

They're all gay because they're all married to hairdressers.

An early fascination with this song:

Theres a cute reporter in savannah georgia who is gay

Here in Chicago, we had Stephen Goolsby as weathergay on local channel CLTV. He went on to become porn star Stephen Marks. Now I think he's in DC working in real estate.

r43 is always late for the party.

Mike Woods is tres tres gay, R41.

Within the industry, it's no secret.

Why isn't r4 on W&W? Funniest thing on here in a while.

r41, Mike's former partner is Jim Castillo who was doing weather at station across town. Then went to KOMO in Washington. Here people called him "The Homo at KOMO."

Do any Miami or New Orleans people know anything about David Bernard? He was a cute, baby-faced gay twink in Tulsa early in his career, but I just looked him up, and he's a very handsome man now. He always seemed like a really nice guy, too, and his partner, if there is one, is a lucky man.

Cute gay Scottish weatherman in tight shirt.

[quote]Here in CT, the CBS station has 3 weathergays

Whose the third one? Mike? I've been wondering about OP's question ever since I noticed how many "weathergays" we seem to have here in CT.

Austin STILL has a lot of local gay weathermen. I know 3 personally.

I wonder what happened to Tony Williams. He was DC's Weathergay for a number of years, then moved out to LA to be their Weathergay.

But he has pretty much disappeared since losing a job in LA (IIRC).

I wonder if Tex Antoine was gay?

I like me some Brooks Garner. He's in Houston now. He has a daughter so he's probably straight.

Does anyone here who lives in Portland, Or know if KPTV's Wayne Garcia is on the down low?

Not that I'm flattering myself but I think he cruised me twice at Safeway last night.

There was a weathergay in atlanta back in the 80's (?) named Russ Minshew who was busted for soliciting a teenage boy. In was quite the scandal.

WHET the weathergay who quit to do gay porn? Steve something ...

I'm curious about that too, R52.

From 3:

Scott and Mark - Who is the 3rd? Mike is really the only other option since Bruce has been married a couple of times.

From 30:

Ryan and Garrett

From 8:

Not sure on this one

I have always thought that Portland weatherman Rod Hill was gay but no one seems to know. He is a pocket gay.

When "It's Raining Men" for real, they want to be covering the storm.

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Because this:

and especially this:

Here in Philadelphia, there's Adam Joseph on the ABC affiliate. Cute, cute, CUTE, what a smile. Chris Sower, at the NBC station, is hot, but straight, definitely worth a look though.

I like Scott, R63, and he's out, which is more than you can say for a lot of weathergays.

What's the fucking problem with being effem**ate? It's not an insult to all of us, and you would really think on a GAY site it wouldn't be used as a diss.

R61, I would be astonished if Rod Hill weren't gay. He probably just keeps a low profile.

R27 - Arch???? LOL, what a big nelly. Oh how the "mighty" have fallen. He sure thought he was the party bomb queen of ATL back in the 90s.

Sven Sundgard in mpls.. He's out .

Oh how I loved this posting:

I don't care if he's gay or straight but I would like to see Jim Cantore do the weather in the nude just once. He's hot enough in a polo shirt to cause me to palpitate.

This is one of our local weathermen, Dave Nussbaum. I can't believe he's married to a woman.

I remember the late Chris Bradley from when he did the weather in Detroit.

They are all hopped up on drugs..

A TV job = attention, which bottoms thrive on, and local TV weatherman is one of the easiest to get into. All it requires is to be well turned out and be able to read an autocue for a few minutes a day. That's do-able for most gay men.