Dr. Franklin, who has a doctorate in biology, now works as a global forecast manager at Boston Scientific, a medical device company in Natick, Mass.
INSIDE PITCH Rain limited the Mets to mostly indoor workouts Thursday, and because Friday has a similar forecast, Manager Terry Collins pushed back the team's workout that day to the early afternoon.
"The vast majority of organizations don't have policies in place," said Jennifer Schramm, a workplace trends and forecasting manager at the Society for Human Resource Management in Washington.
"It's literally picking up the Radio Times and seeing what people are interested in," said Jeremy Caplin, forecasting manager at the National Grid, who is not much of a soap watcher but knows most of their plots from listings.
Earlier, Andy Wall, flood forecasting manager for Natural Resources Wales (NRW) told BBC Radio Wales the worst of the weather was yet to come after flood damage in the morning.
For our forecasting manager, doing this might have avoided a lot of spreadsheets, and put more attention on making the official forecast more useful.
Andy Wall, flood forecasting manager at Natural Resources Wales, said £20m had been invested since 2006 in coastal flood defence schemes and forecasters are able to inform the public of storms days in advance.
Andy Wall, flood forecasting manager at NRW, said that £20m had been invested since 2006 in coastal flood defence schemes and forecasters were able to inform the public of storms days in advance.
For example, the forecasting manager of a large company told me recently that much of her time, and that of her people, was spent creating customized spreadsheets for business areas in response to urgent questions about and adjustments to the official forecast.
To create a forecast, a manager must determine what needs to be done to meet the expected demand for a given planning period.
With rain forecast, Nationals Manager Dusty Baker did not want to risk the NL MVP in a wet outfield during Wednesday night's game against Arizona. .
