Female reporters on WFLD-channel 32’s Good Day Chicago were asked not to abrasion hats if on appointment outdoors, the Chicago Tribune reports. This appeal — nay, claim — reportedly came from controlling ambassador Dan Salamone, who acclaimed that the women would “look a lot bigger after hats.” Temperatures in Chicago throughout January so far, on average, are extensive lows of 19 degrees and highs of 35 degrees Fahrenheit, with precipitation.
While Salamone conceded that an barring would be issued if temperatures biconcave to 20 below, the station’s accepted manager, Dennis Welsh, doesn’t agree. “Of advance we wish our reporters to be balmy and there’s annihilation amiss with cutting a hat in Chicago,” he told the paper. “We just wish it to be a hat that looks appropriate. That’s what it stemmed from.” He aswell fabricated an adroit ascertainment while searching out at the Midwest arctic from his office: “There are a actor great-looking hats. In Chicago, anybody wears hats. I’m searching out my window, which faces an circle actuality in city Chicago. Every individual being bridge the artery has a hat on.”
The accomplishment for changeable meteorologists to attending beautiful in the algid is already a struggle. Stephanie Abrams of the Acclimate Channel explained to Slate that in albino acclimate she takes pharmacy-bought heating pads and wraps and secures them to her physique afore bottomward a wetsuit on. This is all beneath a clothing or a dress, and again she fills a anorak with added heating pads.
