NZ Weather Forum

Has anyone else seen this?

https://www.facebook.com/nzweatherawards?fref=ts

Who is running it? Seems like a scam...

has the hallmarks of the guy Josh I think his name is, who has started up a number of weather web site and has promoted give aways/competitions etc

Cant be any good, I'm not in it! Clearly the person running it has no grasp of how the weather market works in New Zealand outside of the FB ecosystem.

TonyT wrote:Clearly the person running it has no grasp of how the weather market works in New Zealand outside of the FB ecosystem.

I'm not even sure that all of the pages they listed are actually businesses? Considering he called it "Business Weather Awards", you'd think that would be a requirement.

It means nothing. Not the first time I've seen this weather business award facebook comp pop up. A promise of prizes that don't exist not that any "real" company could care less.

The eventual winner of this highly prestigious award will also be, by coincidence the award organiser (who ever it is).

That many weather companies in NZ.

How many NZ weather companies have trained meteorologists ? 3 perhaps.

I'm guessing it's just Facebook spam phishing for peoples email address, names and phone numbers.

Nev wrote:I'm guessing it's just Facebook spam phishing for peoples email address, names and phone numbers.

Looks like a good explanation for a weird Facebook page.

spwill wrote:How many NZ weather companies have trained meteorologists ? 3 perhaps.

Is it that many? Metservice, and who else? I thought that Philip Duncan had no meteorology qualifications (hence why he calls himself a "weather analyst" rather than a meteorologist), and the Canterbury Weather Updates guys trained as PE teachers. What about the Blue Skies guy?

Nev wrote:I'm guessing it's just Facebook spam phishing for peoples email address, names and phone numbers.

That's what I thought. Surely if it were a serious thing, they would have contacted the companies directly rather than just leaving a comment (with bad spelling btw) on their facebook pages.

Definitely a waste of internet space, someone wont be able to watch a funny cat video now because of that...

dizzy wrote:What about the Blue Skies guy?

B.Sc in geography, courses with the WMO, nearly 30 years earning a full time living from forecasting, certificate in sea weed wrangling.

I once was recommended for award for weather forecasting.
I was put in 'a ward' in a loony bin for being silly in forecasting the whether?

TonyT wrote:

dizzy wrote:What about the Blue Skies guy?

B.Sc in geography, courses with the WMO, nearly 30 years earning a full time living from forecasting, certificate in sea weed wrangling.

Jealous, I bet that sea weed wrangling certificate has paid for itself over and over. I went wrangling the other day but when I got pulled up by the fisheries they saw I had no certified sea weed technician so It all got confiscated along with my muckboots, boat, big yellow raincoat, dog, toaster and the in laws. Those bloody fisheries

So did anyone actually win? The winner was meant to be annouced on September 1st (US time?).

Interesting that the widow of SurveyMonkey's recently deceased CEO is also Facebook's COO.