Creative Writer Intern Forecasting and Communications

AccuWeather is seeking a highly creative curious and deeply collaborative Creative Writer Intern: Forecasting and Communications to work directly with AccuWeather forecasters and the Writing Committee to further elevate the detail clarity precision and distinctiveness of the language used to describe forecasts for our users. This role is designed for a graduate student or an individual with equivalent writing experience who brings fresh thinking about how complex weather information can be expressed in ways that are more detailed precise clear engaging and scientifically sound.

Embedded closely with Forecast Operations this position will learn from meteorologists participate in the forecast-writing process and help develop new approaches terminology and descriptive frameworks that make AccuWeather forecasts more informative and better than what is available from any other source. The emphasis is on improving the consumer forecast experience - not traditional public relations - by helping forecasters communicate what the weather will be what the impact will be how it will evolve what it may look like and what details matter most to people making decisions. This includes a laser focus on developing stronger displays greater artistry and more effective visual communications that amplify the advantages of AccuWeather forecasts and content.

The Creative Writer Intern: Forecasting and Communications will serve as a bridge between meteorological expertise and exceptional consumer-facing writing helping AccuWeather deliver forecast descriptions with greater depth nuance consistency and usefulness while preserving the scientific accuracy and authority at the core of the AccuWeather brand.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Forecast Language Detail & Description:

• Work side-by-side with forecasters to craft and refine accurate detailed consumer-focused descriptions of daily weather changing conditions major storms seasonal patterns and forecast developments.
  Elevate forecast language beyond basic conditions by identifying the most useful details nuances timing impacts transitions and sensory descriptions that help users better understand what to expect. Use bold catchy and descriptive language.
  Translate complex meteorological concepts into clearer more detailed consumer-friendly language without sacrificing scientific meaning accuracy or appropriate expressions of forecast confidence.
  Develop new descriptive approaches vocabulary sentence structures and frameworks that make AccuWeather forecasts more distinctive informative and useful than competing forecast experiences.
  Help establish consistent terminology for recurring weather patterns while preserving enough flexibility for forecasters to communicate the unique character and details of each forecast.

Forecaster & Writing Committee Collaboration:

• Embed with AccuWeather forecasters to understand how forecasts are created where language choices can add value and how writing can better communicate meteorological insight to users.
  Work closely with the AccuWeather Writing Committee to test evaluate and introduce new approaches to forecast writing and description.
  Bring an outside writing perspective to established forecast workflows asking thoughtful questions and proposing new ways of thinking writing and working.
• Challenge conventional approaches to forecast description and explore new ways to communicate weather that provide users with greater detail context understanding and value.
  Gather feedback from meteorologists and other stakeholders iterate on language and help turn successful approaches into practical writing guidance and repeatable standards.
  Support a collaborative environment in which meteorological expertise and strong writing work together to create a richer forecast experience.

Consumer Forecast Experience & Innovation:

• Review forecast descriptions across AccuWeather consumer experiences and identify opportunities to add specificity context clarity and useful detail.
  Develop and test language that helps users better understand the timing intensity duration variability uncertainty and real-world impacts of weather events.
• Explore new ways to make routine forecasts more useful engaging descriptive and impactful bringing the same level of creativity and attention to detail to both high-impact weather coverage and everyday conditions such as temperature wind precipitation cloud cover humidity visibility and changing conditions.
  Help ensure forecast descriptions are clear and effective across digital platforms while retaining the depth and detail that distinguish AccuWeather.
  Contribute ideas that reinforce AccuWeathers Superior Accuracy through the quality precision and usefulness of the forecast language itself.

Writing Standards & Continuous Improvement:

• Help evolve AccuWeathers authoritative trustworthy detailed and forward-looking forecast voice.
  Identify new ways to describe weather phenomena that are vivid memorable consumer-relevant and scientifically sound.
  Contribute to forecast-writing standards terminology guidelines examples and best practices used by forecasters and content teams.
  Study how forecast language performs in practice and recommend improvements based on clarity usefulness consistency and differentiation.
  Encourage experimentation and fresh thinking while respecting operational requirements meteorological accuracy and established review processes.
  Perform other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Communications Writing or a closely related writing-intensive field is required.
  Current graduate student in communications writing journalism English creative writing technical writing or a related discipline or equivalent advanced or professional writing experience.
  Exceptional command of written language including tone clarity precision descriptive detail structure and audience awareness.
  Demonstrated ability to take complex or technical information and make it clear specific useful and engaging for a broad audience.
  Strong collaborative skills and genuine interest in working closely with meteorologists subject-matter experts and a writing committee.
  Intellectual curiosity and willingness to learn meteorological concepts and forecast workflows.
  Ability to receive expert feedback revise quickly and improve language through an iterative process.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Interest in or familiarity with meteorology weather forecasting climate environmental science science communication or technical writing.
  Experience developing descriptive language style guidance editorial standards or writing frameworks.
  Experience collaborating directly with technical or scientific subject-matter experts.
  Portfolio examples demonstrating precise vivid explanatory or detail-rich writing.

Skills & Competencies:

• Creative thinking grounded in accuracy precision and credibility.
  Exceptional descriptive and explanatory writing.
  Ability to identify and elevate the details that matter most to users.
  Strong editing revision and language-development skills.
  Curiosity about weather and willingness to learn from forecasters.
  Collaborative workshop-oriented approach to writing.
  Ability to develop practical writing standards while continuing to experiment with new approaches.
  Excellent organizational and time management skills.
  Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of an embedded team.

About AccuWeather

AccuWeather recognized and documented as the most accurate and most used source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world has saved over 12000 lives prevented injury to over 100000 people and saved companies tens of billions of dollars through better planning and decision-making.

A billion people around the world rely on AccuWeathers proven Superior Accuracy across our consumer digital platforms. is the #1 weather destination and one of the top 100 most-visited websites in the world and our award-winning AccuWeather app delivers detailed real-time forecasts to tens of millions of smartphones.

AccuWeather forecasts also appear on digital signage in 700 newspapers are heard on over 400 radio stations and viewed on 100 television stations. The AccuWeather Network and AccuWeather NOW reach an audience of over 225 million on cable and streaming platforms including DirecTV Charter Communications - Spectrum Verizon Samsung Vizio Philo Frndly TV Comcasts Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Stream Roku Xumo Rockbot LG and Amazon Freevee.

AccuWeather For Business serves more than half of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of other businesses and government agencies globally.

Dr. Joel Myers Founder and Executive Chairman established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the father of modern commercial meteorology. Myers is a visionary entrepreneur and has been called the most accurate man in weather by The New York Times. He has been recognized in Entrepreneur Magazines Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs as one of the greatest entrepreneurs in American history. Myers received the American Meteorological Societys 2018 Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of Applied Meteorology and the National Weather Associations 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award in addition to numerous other accolades.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

AccuWeather is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race creed color national origin sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression) sexual orientation age ancestry physical or mental disability marital status political affiliation religion citizenship status genetic information veteran status or any other basis protected under applicable federal state or local law.

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