Because of the stupid way the weather is on at quarter past/quarter to the hour during Breakfast, the only forecast I caught on TV was this one:
09:56 BBC News
If you ever Google Dan's name, The Poetry of Dan Corbett is usually on the first page or so of results. Hand on heart, I don't think I've ever thought his forecasts poetic, until today:
Hello there. We've got a pretty good-looking day
shaping up, but a couple of things in the way,
some mist and fog is still to get away,
give it another couple of hours we'll clear it away
and it will give us a decent day.
But it has been a foggy start and maybe you've sort of heading out in the next couple of hours and it looks rather grey,
that's sort of the leftovers of that fog easing away.
Notice the strip of cloud to our north and to our west. One little weather front further south and east where we've had clearer skies overnight,
that's allowed the area of white,
the mist and fog to form.
Not sure if that's poetry, or prose - but, either way, surely elevates Dan to Shakespearean status.
BBCi UK Forecast
Hello there. For many of us today it might be one of those days where you're tempted to grab a picnic basket [holding gesture] or just push the deckchairs into the garden [will this be the last time this year we see the deckchair gesture? See pic].
Our weather front further north, a little strip of blue like a little piece of blue string.
How about Sunday? Sunday's a good day, sunny spells, a fine day for the outside. If you do have plans for the outside, maybe the neighbours coming round, I think it should be fine for many of us.
Radio 1
Dan's appearance on Vernon Kay is MUST listen. Hilarious.
Available on the BBC iPlayer until 4th October - 25 minutes in.
I don't know how to record sound from the radio, so a transcript will have to do:
Vernon: Daniel, how did your career path turn out? How did you end up at BBC Weather Centre? What did you do wrong?
Dan: [laughs] I started doing weather in America.
Vernon: [seems incredulous] Oh! Did you really?!
Dan: Chasing tornadoes in Tornado Alley.
Vernon: Love that! The weather in America is very in-depth. No disrespect to Euro weather, but they love giving it a bit of showbiz, don't they, the weather? Very flamboyant with their hands [anyone else spot the irony here?].
Dan: You really get some really nasty weather there, the tornadoes, I've seen some really nasty ones, hurricanes and some big old snowstorms as well. A bit of everything in the span of just a season.
Vernon: What channel were you working on?
Dan: Different ones, I worked from New York to Texas to Arizona.
Vernon: Did you have one of those stick mics with a cube on that had, like, 'WKBR'?!
Dan: Yes.
Vernon: Oh, love that!
Dan: One particular place I worked, we'd do the weather, then we'd get halfway through the weather and it's like, 'right, we're gonna take a break now', and we'd have a sponsor that bought the radar for our television station, so in the middle of the weather we'd have a break, 'lets go to our sponsor now' and then it'd be some old man from a bank, no disrespect, and he'd sort of say, [puts on voice, mumbles for a bit]. And you come back and OK, here's the rest of the weather. They probably would've switched off by then. Very, very different.
Vernon: It is different in America, that's all I'm going to say. Not to offend our American listeners. But America - that's a good t-shirt - 'America; it's different'.
Dan: [laughs] It certainly is. If you have a second, one time I was working at a station in Texas, the first couple of weeks I was working at the station they got some 'phone calls from the viewers, 'oh, we like the new weatherman, very nice'. But one lady phoned in and said, 'the weatherman is very very nice but how long has it been since his stroke?' And they said, 'stroke? What do you mean?', 'well, the man's voice', because, you know, obviously I don't have a Texas accent, 'the way he speaks, he's obviously got that speech impediment, he doesn't speak with a Texas twang, he must've had a stroke'.
Vernon: That's hilarious. When you were in Texas did you ever go to a hoe-down?
Dan: Er, oh yes.
Vernon: How was that?
Dan: Very different. You have to do all the line-dancing and the two-stepping.
Vernon: Tell me this, and I hope the answer's yes; to impress your boss did you wear a cowboy hat and some... cowboy boots
Dan: Yeah, I did.
Vernon: I love that! And that neck-tie thing?
Dan: Er, I looked like a right prat but, yes, I did.
After the forecast;
Vernon: What you doing tonight, Daniel?
Dan: Sadly, going to bed early so I can be up in the morning to do the weather. [Aha! So he's on tomorrow too, must set they Sky+!]
Vernon: Hey Daniel, have you ever been to a duck-do?
Dan: Er, a what?
Vernon: A duck-do.
Dan: What's that?
Vernon: You know, a duck-do. You must've been to a duck-do before.
Dan: Erm, not sure.
Vernon: Yeah, a duck-do.
Dan: Go on.
Vernon: Tell me, when you were young, did you ever go to a duck-do?
Dan: Er, I'm not sure [record begins to play].
After the record Vernon came across as being a bit sore that Dan wasn't lured into the duck-do trap.
So, is Vernon Kay the new Janice Long?
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