Why meteorologists hate St Patrick's Day

It's like something straight out of Anchorman…

Why meteorologists hate St Patrick's Day

Because they can't wear green, or this happens…

Fox News weatherperson Maria Molina started a bit of a trend with that tweet yesterday, as her colleagues at other stations also bemoaned the fact that they couldn't join in the spirit of the day.

Here's Heather Waldman at Accuweather's effort:

Seems the guys have it easier than the girls:

And another one from Lindsey Monroe of WTHI news in Indiana:

So how do the good lads and ladies of Met Éireann deal with the problem?

Evelyn Cusack sidestepped it on last night's Six One News with a dark blue gúna and a sprig of shamrock.

Although… hang on a second!

There's Nuala Carey on yesterday's European weather broadcast, wearing her finest St Patrick's Day green, which blows our theory completely out of the water.

As bold as brass!

We called Montrose to get an explanation.

"It's because the chroma key screen that we use is blue," Karina Buckley of RTÉ Weather told us.

"The screens can be one of three colours - green, blue or red," she explained.

"In the US they use green a lot - which is possibily why it's known as 'green screen' - but here in the RTÉ Weather studio we use a blue one.

"Which means that we can wear green on St. Patrick's Day - but we can't ever wear blue."

So that's that cleared up then.

(H/T: Slate)

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