Sadistic weather girl?

byHabib Battah
Jan 18, 2012

Lebanese weather women (yes all of them are female) are better known for their tight jeans than meteorology skills.

But local station Al Jadeed is now taking the forecast to a new level with its nod to sadism and leather fetishes:

In addition to the elbow-length Darth Vader gloves, she’s also wearing matching black leather pants.

Thank you Al Jadeed, for making one of the world’s most perplexing countries even stranger.

Habib Battah

Habib Battah is an investigative journalist and founder of the news site beirutreport.com. Battah has covered Lebanon and the Middle East for over 15 years and teaches journalism and media studies at the American University of Beirut. He is a contributor to Monocle, The Guardian, BBC World, Al Jazeera and others, a former fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University and two-time recipient of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award. Battah's investigative work was recently recognized for outstanding local reporting by the Columbia University Oakes Award for Environmental Reporting. Battah earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Near East Studies and Journalism from New York University.

3 comments

nisaq says:

Jan 23, 2012 at 8:24 pm

Good lord, that is weird.

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jdnajem says:

Jan 24, 2012 at 1:53 pm

they kind of all look like that to me. but very nice observations, especially since the weather itself has been rather sadistic lately.

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Photi Bouri says:

Feb 8, 2012 at 6:27 pm

Wonderful … They probably sold 10,000 pairs while she was on the air. They probably told her like the others that the gloves were wagyu and now they are probably marketing the gloves, ‘ball’ dress to Neiman Marcus in the Gulf because they are loyal patriots that don’t drink Coca Cola but only Pepsi because its … they have no idea.

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