--- title: TIME Magazine Archives: Profile of Early TV Weatherman Clint Youle description: Sunny, with a chance of groundbreaking television canonical: https://time.com/3264096/tv-weather-1951/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-03T18:30:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:59:13.752Z article:section: History og:title: Meet Clint Youle, One of the World's First TV Weathermen og:description: Profiled in the pages of TIME in 1951 og:url: https://time.com/3264096/tv-weather-1951/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt063d075d1a0fe30c/6986a1cde53aba76704d440e/9351-clint-youle.png?branch=production&width=479&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 479 og:image:height: 269 og:image:alt: 9351 Clint Youle og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Meet Clint Youle, One of the World's First TV Weathermen twitter:description: Profiled in the pages of TIME in 1951 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt063d075d1a0fe30c/6986a1cde53aba76704d440e/9351-clint-youle.png?branch=production&width=479&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Meet Clint Youle, One of the World's First TV Weathermen > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Sep 3, 2014 6:30 PM UTC  From the Sept. 3, 1951, issue of TIME From the Sept. 3, 1951, issue of TIME TIME by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Sep 3, 2014 6:30 PM UTC Weather presenters are a special breed, often adored for their catchphrases (see, for example, Al Roker’s “Here’s what’s happening in your neck of the woods”) and their hilarious [on-air mishaps](http://time.com/4572/best-viral-weatherman-videos/). On this day 63 years ago, TIME profiled one of the world’s very first TV weathermen, Clint Youle. Though he spent much of his life as a beloved weather icon, he “got into television almost by accident,” as the 1951 article points out. He got his start as a radio newswriter, but transitioned to television in 1949 when Chicago station WNBQ was seeking someone to do on-air forecasts. He’d taken a three-month meteorology course in the Army — and that was enough to land him the gig. As TIME reported, he soon developed a shtick that gained him quite a following: --- > “” --- By 1951 — only a few years after Youle got the job — the gig had grown to two local weather shows and a 45-second spot twice a week on John Cameron Swayze’s network telecast. By then, Youle’s salary had spiked to $40,000 a year. In 1999, Youle died at age 83\. The New York _Times_ [credited him](http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/31/us/clint-youle-83-early-weatherman-on-tv.html) as the very first person to present the weather on a national television news program. _The Daily Show_ even [did a bit ](http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/yqa9i1/we-hardly-knew-ye---clint-youle)to honor him, in which Jon Stewart attempted to maneuver his way around a weather map. Turns out it’s harder than it looks. **_Read TIME’s full profile of Clint Youle:_** [Radio: Weather Guesser](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,821658,00.html). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3264096/tv-weather-1951/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3264096/tv-weather-1951/"},"headline":"Meet Clint Youle, One of the World's First TV Weathermen","datePublished":"2014-09-03T18:30:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:59:13.752Z","description":"Sunny, with a chance of groundbreaking television","url":"https://time.com/3264096/tv-weather-1951/","keywords":["weather","Television","History","TV","Archives"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt063d075d1a0fe30c/6986a1cde53aba76704d440e/9351-clint-youle.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt063d075d1a0fe30c/6986a1cde53aba76704d440e/9351-clint-youle.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"9351 Clint Youle","caption":"Clint Youle","creditText":"TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"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":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3264096/tv-weather-1951/","name":"Meet Clint Youle, One of the World's First TV Weathermen"}}]}] ```