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Let the presenter mention the weather between records
The station could already give the weather: a band on the format clock asks for
it, and what comes back is a report — the conditions, today's high, and back to
the music. That break is written to be correct, so the rules on it forbid
comparing, advising and saying how any of it feels, because a presenter who does
those things to a measurement has editorialised it.What it could not do was mention the weather while talking about a record. "It's
sunny today, get out there and tan while you listen to this one" is a presenter
doing their job, and every rule the station had about the weather forbade it.Turn on "Let the presenter mention the weather between records" and the reading
is offered on an ordinary link, to use or ignore. Most breaks ignore it, which
the prompt asks for in as many words: a link that notices it is outside is worth
more than one that reports the forecast, and a presenter who mentioned the sky
every quarter of an hour would be a station with a tic. The ones that take it up
react to it, say what to do with an afternoon like this, and tie it to whatever
is playing.The figures stay exactly as unfabricable as they are in a weather break. A number
the service did not measure is refused before the words reach air, in the same
check the weather break uses, and the station never rounds or converts on the
model's behalf. What changes between the two kinds is only what a presenter is
allowed to DO with a reading, never what they are allowed to claim about one.Off by default, and an upgrade changes nothing until you switch it on. It needs
a weather plugin, a model writing the breaks, and "Where the station is" set;
the station's own phrasings underneath the model do not mention the weather, so a
station running without a model sounds exactly as it did. A break that does
report the sky expires with the reading behind it, as a weather break does, so a
sunny afternoon cannot go out at dusk — and one that ignored the offer is not
held to a claim it never made.