History of The Weather Channel Network, and the "Forecast Earth"/environmental unit (however, certain portions of the "Forecast Earth" unit remain with TWC). The layoffs took effect on November 30 (The Weather Channel later stated it would air other environmental programs). With the shutdown of NBC Weather Plus that month as a result of NBC Universal's partial acquisition of The Weather Channel, certain meteorologists from the digital broadcast network were eventually integrated into TWC's on-camera weather staff; forecasting, radar and graphics systems used by other NBC Universal television news properties (including NBC News, CNBC and MSNBC) replaced the Weather Plus-branded banner graphics to fit The Weather
Clerk of the Weather hailstones, sacks of wind, and a "portable tempest, firmly secured with iron bands". His companions include Jack Frost and Spring. In Herman Melville's poem "Pebbles" one finds "Though the Clerk of the Weather insist, / And lay down the weather-law, / Pintado and gannet they wist / That the winds blow whither they list / In tempest or flaw" In Samuel Clemens' speech at the New England Society of New York in 1876, he attributed New England weather to "raw apprentices in the Weather Clerk's factory, who experiment and learn how in New England, for board and clothes, and then