- Slovenian Environment Agency, Ljubljana, Slovenia (veronika.hladnik-zakotnik@gov.si)
In the last years in Slovenia we had several types of weather shows. From short weather talk of weather presenter with the evening news anchor to around 8 minutes long conversation about the weather topics in the morning talking show and classical evening TV weather show with or without weather presenter. While people in the last years less and less understand the weather it is of great importance that meteorologists are present on TV and speak about all weather-related topics, to educate the viewers about the normal and extreme weather in our country and worldwide. Not only the weather itself, also the pollen forecast, UV index, temperature trends and probability of precipitation in the next days is important to be spoken to the public. Also, we have to talk about the past weather cases that people don't forget what the possible range of temperatures or precipitation is in one day or month to not be that surprised when the extremes happen. Classical evening TV weather show has exact format and the time limit which means there is not much time to talk about the weather outside next days time period or outside your country. People have a lot of interests, do different sports, have gardens or just love to spend the day off outside. This is why they like to hear about the weather also in some other aspects. When there will be the high or low tide on the sea, is in the mountains possibility for snow avalanches or just what are the temperatures of lakes and rivers on a very hot summer day. People also travel around the world so information about the weather worldwide is of their interest. Weather forecasts are just one click away on our phones and computers, but the knowledge of the weather- and weather-related topics are harder to find, so some of main tasks of meteorologists in the future will be the education of people to better understand the weather around us.
How to cite: Hladnik Zakotnik, V.: Different kinds of weather TV shows with meteorologists on a national television in Slovenia in the last years, EMS Annual Meeting 2025, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 7–12 Sep 2025, EMS2025-114, https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2025-114, 2025.