Jalames 1st Annual Southern California Meteorologist Rankings

When we consume our local news at night or morning we are exposed to a great deal of information and often many depressing stories about what is going on in Southern Cal and the rest of our country be it car chases, homicides, traffic, and as of late news about the recession and unemployment.... booo. I would say in a given newscast, 70-80% of the information that we consume is overwhelmingly negative... and then the weatherman/woman comes on and moods lighten! This is especially the case since we live in Southern Cal and aside from Rain, Santa Ana winds, occasional flooding, and fires our weathermen have great news of sunny skies and beautiful beaches... they are the purveyors of information that effect every single one of us. So there was an overturned semi on the 10 you say?? Well that may effect a few thousand for an hour or so but the weather is universal. We all talk about it and we all bask in it or shake our fists collectively at it. And this my friends is why our meteorologists are celebrities. But not just anyone will do.... this is LA, the entertainment capital of our country. The land of self obsession, vanity, and microscopic attention spans. Our meteorologists need to be excellent.


I have ranked the top 10 meteorologists for Southern California and did so based on the scientific Jalames Meterologist ranking formula:

Categories (each on a scale of 1-10):
Knowledge and Professionalism
Entertainment Value
Appearance

The maximum score would be a 30

I hope you enjoy the rankings as much as I enjoyed putting them together, obviously this is a very subjective ranking by yours truly and while you may disagree you would probably be wrong! I will rank them in reverse order starting at #12 and finishing at #1 over the next week or so... let's get started