That's The Weather, For Now - a Daniel Corbett fanblog

27th September

One News at 6pm
Showers:
And then, VHUM [ignition gesture], they bubble up like a gas burner going on in the afternoon.

Friday is when we go a-HA!

A weather system:
This bloke gets the heave-ho out the back door.

Dan Corbett on our recent yucky weather: Nobody told Mother Nature it was the school holidays
This is the title of a piece by Dan on the One News website, containing the following gems:

"It has been more the weather for the indoor board games and ducks!"

"There has been a big high sitting east of the country that has been blocking the typical west to east flow of weather systems.
It is a bit like taking a big boulder and ramming it into a smooth flowing stream. This would block the water flow of the stream and the water would try and get around the boulder however it could. Up the bank, etc."

"Blocking can be a bit like the pause button on Mother Nature’s DVD player."

26th September

One News at 6pm
For school holidays you would almost think that Mother Nature didn't get the school calendar in advance.

That's Dan Corbett for now, Down Under

The Dominion Post has published an interview with/article about Dan this weekend, with a few little snippets of information which are new even to me. However, given the inaccuracies in it about this blog, perhaps the other 'facts' are not so true either.

There is a cult (well, a fanblog) in the UK that streams our weather broadcasts, out of season, in devotion to TV One weatherman Dan Corbett.

Streaming Corb's forecasts? I WISH! It's hard enough just to watch them before they vanish into the ether, let alone stream them. Gah!

The former BBC weather presenter's quirky screen style – all fingers, anthropomorphism, and advice – has hooked fans here too, as well as earned the odd comparison to a gecko climbing a concrete wall.

Unfortunately, also true.

On-screen he admonishes the "big mean uglies" that disrupt picnicking plans, and coos almost proudly if "Mother Nature finally read the emails for some decent Christmas weather". He's described trough lines across the Pacific as "sort of dancing about like a blue sausage", referred to ducks clutching umbrellas and donning coats if it's raining hard, and is quick to tell you when it's "time to put the barbecue back in the garage".

SWOON!

His turns of phrase have been dubbed danisms by 'That's the Weather, For Now' – his dedicated fanblog – and are all ad-libbed on set.

Calling them Dan-isms (capital letter is important, hyphen unnecessary) wasn't my idea - seem to remember having read it online somewhere.

"It's important for someone like me, who's in your living room just a few minutes in the evening, to conjure up mental images that will stick – otherwise it's pointless. People would turn to look at their partner at the end of a bulletin and ask, 'so what's the weather tomorrow?'"

Conjuring up the mental image of Dan in my living room. Quick, best have a tidy up.

The whole article is worth a read. Very slightly different print versions exist (the title of the one in the Dominion Post being the title of this blogpost), all with similar amazing photos of Dan. Can't find a way to link to the articles on PressReader, but here are the photos:

pic.twitter.com/dlAS4fNaxy

— ttwfn (@ttwfn) September 17, 2016

15th September

One News at 6pm

Mother Nature's gonna open up the Tasman Sea and literally take both barrels and point them right at us.

1st September

Welcome to 'That's the Weather for Now' - a Daniel Corbett fanblog.
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Spring has arrived! But not everyone's pleased with the unseasonably warm weather
The video on this piece by Dan-fan Chris Chang is worth a watch from about 1m 12s in.

With Mother Nature it's always the case, it's never done until, like at the circus, the fat lady sings.