Why are so many TV meteorologists gay?

A. lot of gay men are performers who like the spotlight. If you want to be a performer but you can't sing or dance or act, you get a career on TV. If you're not interested in sports or reporting, you do weather.

It can blow hot and cold.

We actually have two friends who are gay weathermen.

Another random gay occupation: pharmacist.

R4 gay men love pills! Just ask Sally Bowles!

The 'dean' of Chicago TV weather is the recently-retired Tom Skilling, who is (quietly) gay. He has acted as a mentor to lots of aspiring gay TV meteorologists over the years. I give him credit for why there are so many cute gay meteorologists out there.

Tom Skilling has an infamous little brother.

I’d add the name of a certain NY weather reporter, but that would be a sure fire way to make sure this thread goes directly to the cornfield.

"We have a tornado warning for the area, a long, thick, pliable tube that lays waste to everything it touches. So be careful out there today."

There's one in San Francisco too. He's very cute & does an excellent job -- also seems like a truly nice guy (especially compared to the acerbic gay anchor who runs the morning show).

Our local weatherman is a pompous self-absorbed hetero. His assistant is one of those chunky football player types whose voice makes Liberace seem butch, but somehow has a wife at home. (I can only assume she's either deaf or was raised by a gay men's chorus and knows no better.)

Why do so many gay TV meteorologists become gay porn "models"?

It's all that constant waving of the hand around that appeals to them, OP. Well, us.

Paging DL's official Weather Twink, Payton Malone!

r14 Thank you, baby! Real recognises real.

They get into meteorology when they hear someone mention cum-ulus clouds.

I remember tuning in to Skilling’s “It Sounded Like A Freight Train” back when WGN was a superstation. Nice to know the stud is quietly on the down low.

I’m pretty sure our local weatherman is gay. At least once a week his forecast is “It’s raining men, hallelujah!”

Lotsa Gay Funeral Directors. They love to do hair and make-up.

Mike Woods FOX-5 New York weather often shows his muscular physique. Boyfriend did weather at another station. BF went West. Friends referred him as "The Homo at KOMO" Anyone in Seattle remember his name?

One in three broadcast meteorologists in the U.S. graduated from Mississippi State University. At one time, head of department was gay. Got jobs for his favorite students.

We have a two in Indianapolis.....always fun to watch.

About 20 years ago, friend was neighbor of Joe Moreno, weather on WNBC-4. Tripped over camera cable, wound up in hospital. Returned to Studio 6B at 30 Rock for awhile, then disappeared.

r10, there are at least three weathergays on SF Bay Area TV: John Shrable, Jeff Ranieri, and the cute one you're probably thinking about, Drew Tuma. I think John Shrable is handsome.

In college, I dated a guy who wanted to be a TV meterolugist and I think even interned at a local TV station. He became a meteorologist (not on TV) for a few years, but eventually went into another line of work.

r25, was he hot? Did he use man-makeup?

Male meteorologists are all little homosexual boys.

[quote]Why are so many TV meteorologists gay?

They like the drama.

It's a hurricane! It's a tornado! It's a blizzard! Get your tight ass to the beach, guuurl. It's perfect for that new, skimpy little Speedo!

R28, they jizz when a tsunami cums their way!

I had a friend once who was a gay weather forecaster, and then she died

I forecast a huge dick up my ass.

R26, he was average, but had a genuine nice guy personality and appearance that would have caused him to be fawned over by middle aged ladies and grandmas had he gotten on the air.

Peyton Malone at r15 is the last guy I'd presume has a hairy chest ... but there it is.

They do talk alot about how many inches we're gonna get.

They’re always so excited about snowstorms. They get to report that we can expect 8”.

I knew a gay guy who was an undergrad when I was in grad school who was studying meteorology. He looked like Clark Kent.

Gay weatherman Hall of Fame.

Why would a Black man do his hair like this?

I have a huge crush on one of my local gay weathermen. Sadly, he’s married.

We're just a medium sized market and half our weathermen are gay across all the 5 local stations.

I've always loved weather and to listen to forecasts and storms, etc.

Maybe it's the drama of it all? The variety? The changes in weather in just a 30-50 miles? The non-offensiveness as a conversation topic?

I don't know - but I can honestly say, I have been fascinated with weather my whole life.

R24 Drew definitely plays for the home team, and he’s a really nice guy. I knew him at his first job back in Virginia.

I remember thinking how The Weather Channel in the 90s had some really handsome guys on it. I don’t know if any were even gay but they were a nice variety.

Of course they were gay . . .

I miss my gay weatherman. And Tom Skilling, too.

Our current weather chick looks like Lindsey Lohan and CZJ had a baby. She looks as cracked out as Lohan, too.

Actually the Weather Channel has always had very conservative management (e.g., they always used to require suits for the men and dresses for the women) and it wouldn't surprise me if they made a point of weeding out anyone they suspected was gay.

Cookies on the air currents

Sam Champion, Gay Morning America

[quote]acerbic gay anchor who runs the morning show

Who’s this? Dan Noels?

I'm pretty sure Sam Champion cruised me on Columbus Ave. 20 years ago.

Because you get to describe weather while employing a limp wrist.

DRA-MA!

We've had lots of gay weathermen in Atlanta over the years. One (way back in the 80s was notorious). Russ Minchew who had a history of getting arrested prowling for dick in Piedmont Park on multiple occasions only to have the TV station put in the fix with the cops and get the arrest quashed. He eventually had to take his bush queening out of town and was arrested in Columbus, Ga. soliciting sex from some white trash teenage boys who ran to the cops. They found lots of gay porn in the trunk of his car (he said he was "holding" it for a friend - well okay then). He went on trial and actually got off (no pun intended) mainly because the boys and their families were some of the lowest forms of human trash ever and made complete fools of themselves in court and on the local news. But the damage was done and Channel 11 was tired dealing with his 'issues' and he was fired .He then moved down to Florida. He died at the age of 48 from brain cancer.

R39 Along with Jeremy Lewan at 16, who are other gay weatherguys?

Adam Joseph WPVI-6 Philadelphia has hubby and kids.

In CT there's Scot Haney who sprays glitter everytime he opens his mouth.

It's cause "The Gays" stole the rainbow from Jesus

TV meteorologists are just the prettiest science majors from college. TV meteorologist isn't a career that attracts gays, but it's a career that recruits pretty people so gay men are over represented.

On air local station talent doesn't make that much money, unless you're in a major market. The weather people might make slightly more, but not that much. They all rotate pretty quickly through our three network stations here.

DRAMA

[quote]I'm pretty sure Sam Champion cruised me on Columbus Ave. 20 years ago.

Sam Champion would cruise a jockstrap.

Because to the Weather Girls and this video of course...

r57 is correct

R57 - I don't know about that - but I do know that a schlubby meteorologist turns me off. Somehow, Tom Skilling was able to pull it off for decades in Chicago - but he started his career before looks were paramount.

Yup. In the 70s "Anchorman" era it wasn't about looks.

My hometown weatherman looked like Ernest Borgnine and went on the air drunk more than once but he was super popular. The station ran commercials for him - "Joe Said It Would". He was trusted.

Weirdly I think most of those 70s era guys didn't go into descriptions about things as much as they do now, but the fact that they didn't might have made viewers trust them more....as in: this guy did the science and knows, so I don't have to think about it or doubt him.

[quote][R57] - I don't know about that

I didn't ask if you know about it.

I know about it.

[quote]In the 70s "Anchorman" era it wasn't about looks.

That was 50 years ago. In the 70s "Anchorman" era they weren't talking about the way things were in the 1920s.

R66 - ouch. Your words wound. Be careful please.

R23 here .. Found Joe Moreno on Facebook, now in Phoenix.

Sam Champion. JOKE.

Mike Woods FOX 5 NY is a muscle queen who prances around Chelsea like a princess. Always has a look on his face like he smelled a fart. Into white muscle men only. Sam Champion is married now so his days of drugs and Puerto Rican men at the Roxy are in the past. He is like a gay GLAM-PA now.

Local NYC gay weather presenters:

Raphael Miranda: NBC

Sam Champion: ABC

Mike Woods: FOX

Erick Adame: NY1: In September 2022, NY1 terminated his employment after nude screenshots and video clips from a private adult webcam site were anonymously sent to both the station and his mother

Chaturbate is private?

And the weather is gay. Well sometimes it is…

Weather events, like true crime, is something that women and gay men in particular seem to enjoy throwing themselves into a tizzy about.

Lesbians love weather events.

R53 to start you have Josh Hodell at 28/22 and his little twink Logan Westrope.

That one in the big 🍎 that got in trouble. Lots of receipts and proud of them.

Because it's raining men, silly.

He worked in Philadelphia and a few other places but Kirk Clyatt was the biggest drama queen ever to pass through a TV station’s doors. He’s was allegedly “straight” but decided to take a 2am job around a park in Harrisburg and got beat up by “muggers.”

He came out while speaking at a city council meeting in Virginia and accused the higher ups at the station there of firing him because he was gay. Nope, he quit to try and be on a reality show AND threw a fit when he wasn’t picked first round. Cried the whole way back to VA on Spirit Airlines.

I think he’s doing not a lot in Vegas right now.

*He was…

It’s all about those backdoor cold fronts, OP.

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That's the first time anyone anywhere has called Tom Skilling a "stud."

All the local affiliates in my city have at least one gay weatherman. Sadly, none of them are very cute.

r82 LOL. I like Tom but never thought of him that way either.

R84

R71, there’s a new cutie in town: Mike Masco, who does weather on the weekends on NYC’s PIX11. Here he is pictured with his husband (Mike is in black):

Masco’s a complete asshole.

Well historically on TV the weather either an old sloppy man who was a real meteorologist or a blond bimbo known as The Weather Girl (no relation to the weather girls). So of course gays like that job, you get to pretend you are a male weather girl without all the schooling of a meteorologist.

Sam Champion cruised me too, R49, in Manhattan in midtown west. He was on his bicycle. This must have been in the late 80s or early 90s.