The weather guy on the local news is always the "goofy" one.

I've noticed that usually the weather guy on the local news is kind of the goofy, lovable guy that everyone makes fun of. The other newscasters make jokes about him and he just laughs like a good sport.

Often they wear Hawaiian t-shirts or dress up for Halloween. They also go WAY off tangent and talk about other stuff besides the weather because - frankly - the weather is boring.

In other words, the weather guy is the LEAST boring member of a newscast. Yet he does the most boring thing. Interesting.

Are the weather guys on the local news actually trained meteorologists? I think some of them are. The news promo brags about it like "And now the weather with meteorologist Josh Smith."

But I would think most of them are not. I'd think they would just google the weather before hand and then come on and tell you what they just googled.

Sometimes they might make their own bold prediction like, "They're calling for rain all night but I think it will stop raining in a few hours!"

They always seem surprised the next day when it snowed and they didn't call it. "Wow, we got that surprised snow fall last night!" You would think after years of reporting the weather, they wouldn't be surprised when the weather changes unpredictably.

I think it would be such an awesomely easy job to be a weatherman in Vegas. Or any desert city. "Today is going to be hot and sunny. Tomorrow, hot and sunny. Basically, all summer hot and sunny."

But very dull. Do those places even need weathermen?