Knowing geography and researching the spelling of places across the globe mentioned during weather forecasts helps our captioners maintain quality. Weather terms, such as the Saffir-Simpson scale for hurricanes, also must be spelled correctly.

     Weather reports, like the other genres closed captioned by MCS, also tend to be fast-paced. The realtime captioning of weather anchors speaking at high rates of speed while accurately capturing the places mentioned poses a challenge that MCS captioners meet daily.

     The captioning of weather information has increasingly become important to the public health, welfare, and safety. As weather forecasting information of hurricanes and tornadoes has improved and has had an important impact on saving lives, so to has realtime captioning of such information become vitally important to the welfare and safety of deaf and hard of hearing individuals nationally. MCS' captioners are well-versed in meteorological terminology and locations prone to violent weather.