I find it almost unbearable to watch Met Office weather forecasts these days. The millennial 'meteorologists' who forecast the weather seem to be trained to exhibit the same twitchy, inauthentic affectations, jerky hand movements, pantomime expressions and vocal inflections that are in themselves so distracting as to continually take my attention away from the all-important content of the weather information. It's like having Ken Dodd deliver the weather. Men and women alike now behave as if they are glove puppets slipped over the same hand, turning on their heels at the same cues and making these sudden little emphatic, stage magician lunges to camera.Gone are the days when the old school weather people delivered information with a modest calm befitting the role, without the modern day narcissistic touches and twirls. Please Met Office, change your meteorologist training program and let's see some authenticity and less celebrity ham in front of the weather map.
