People Are Really Mad About Meteorologists's 'Glamorous' and 'Ridiculous' Outfits

People in Ireland are so frustrated with their meteorologists’s wardrobe, they’ve filed official complaints. Met Éireann, the Irish National Meteorological Service, received 78 complaints from members of the public between the start of 2016 and Nov. 1, according to Newstalk, which obtained the information via a Freedom of Information request.

The main criticism is that the clothing the meteorologists wear is too glamorous for the weather they are describing. “One can hardly believe that we are having the coldest weather at the moment by the way the female presenters are dressed. It looks so ridiculous,” said one viewer. “I find Met Éireann reports more glamour-orientated,” said another.

“If people aren’t happy that’s their prerogative,” deputy head of forecasting at Met Éireann Evelyn Cusack told the Irish Examiner. “If they’re not happy about how people are dressed, that’s down to individual taste.”

Meteorologists have taken a lot of heat for their appearances recently. This past May, Liberte Chan, a meteorologist from Los Angeles-area TV station KTLA, was delivering her weather report in a sleeveless sparkly LBD when a male colleague handed her a sweater … on air. “You want me to put this on?” asked Chan, somewhat stunned. “Why, because it’s cold?” Not exactly. Apparently viewers were commenting on her appearance; “we’re getting a lot of emails,” her co-worker put it as the cameras were still rolling.

Here’s what some of the emails said:

She cooperatively put on the sweater, joking that it made her look like a librarian. It might have been a unique outfit choice to report on morning weather, but it was not inappropriate or revealing enough to invoke an ugly sweater issue. Her fans were not as cooperative.

In 2015, meteorologist Kristi Gordon of British Columbia’s Global News read letters from a viewers who bashed her pregnant body.

“Nowhere on North America TV have we seen a weather reader so gross as you, your front-end looks like the Hindenburg and your rear-end looks like a brick [obscenity] house,” an anonymous viewer wrote to Gordon. “Buy some decent clothes and have more respect for your unborn child,” another astonishingly wrote. One viewer was nice enough to give their fashion advice. “Looser tops would look more professional,” said a third. Why do we have a feeling if she wore looser tops, she’d get complaints that she looked sloppy?

Gordon maturely laughed it off, but unfortunately, attacking women for the way they choose to cover their bodies is not a laughing matter.

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