--- title: Meteorologist Wears Dress That Blends into Weather Map description: KTLA reporter and meteorologist wore a dress that blended into the weather map on the wall behind her on live TV. canonical: https://time.com/4239465/meteorologist-accidentally-wears-dress-that-blends-into-weather-map/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-26T21:36:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:32.335Z og:title: Meteorologist Wears Dress That Blends into Weather Map og:description: KTLA reporter and meteorologist wore a dress that blended into the weather map on the wall behind her on live TV. og:url: https://time.com/4239465/meteorologist-accidentally-wears-dress-that-blends-into-weather-map/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Meteorologist Wears Dress That Blends into Weather Map twitter:description: KTLA reporter and meteorologist wore a dress that blended into the weather map on the wall behind her on live TV. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Meteorologist Accidentally Wears Dress That Blends into Weather Map  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Feb 26, 2016 9:36 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Feb 26, 2016 9:36 PM UTC In a problem that is unique to broadcast news, a meteorologist did not realize her dress blended into the weather map on the wall behind her . . . until she was on live TV. Chris Burrous, an anchor for the Los Angeles news station KTLA, rushed over from his desk to put his jacket around the reporter having this wardrobe malfunction, Liberté Chan. The item was way too big, of course, leading Chan to joke: “Do you have a belt? I could belt it.” Watch [the entire episode here](http://fox2now.com/2016/02/26/anchor-saves-the-day-after-meteorologists-wardrobe-fail/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4239465/meteorologist-accidentally-wears-dress-that-blends-into-weather-map/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4239465/meteorologist-accidentally-wears-dress-that-blends-into-weather-map/"},"headline":"Meteorologist Accidentally Wears Dress That Blends into Weather Map","datePublished":"2016-02-26T21:36:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:32.335Z","description":"An anchor rushes on set to save the day","url":"https://time.com/4239465/meteorologist-accidentally-wears-dress-that-blends-into-weather-map/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4239465/meteorologist-accidentally-wears-dress-that-blends-into-weather-map/","name":"Meteorologist Accidentally Wears Dress That Blends into Weather Map"}}]}] ```