Joe Sienkiewicz, a NOAA marine weather expert and a forecaster on duty in Boston during the 1991 storm, remembers having to lay maps and other paper documents all around him.

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In 1987 she transferred to the London Weather Centre as a forecaster, joining the BBC weather team in March 1989 until 1998, when she left to be a full-time mother.

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Dave Wheeler, a photographer and local weather forecaster on Fair Isle, in Shetland, was monitoring Monday's swell charts.

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After working briefly at Birmingham Weather Centre she worked as a forecaster at ITV, preparing graphics and scripts and briefing other presenters.

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Following the incidents, South African Weather Service forecaster Puseletso Mofokeng said there was a common misconception that lightning mainly struck during heavy rain or a severe storm.

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She then moved to the BBC Weather Centre in July 2001 to go in front of the screen as a regular BBC TV forecaster from September of that year.

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Bob Case, a retired NOAA meteorologist and the Boston-based forecaster who coined the phrase "the perfect storm, " said the weather models did a "fantastic job" in helping him and other forecasters predict the storm.

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