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The Meteorologist Dress refers to a women's garment which was worn by a large number of television meteorologists after being posted to a private Facebook group in November 2015.

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On November 21st, 2015, meteorologist Jennifer Myers from the Fox 4 News television station in Dallas, Texas posted a collage of female meteorologists wearing the same dress on Facebook,^[1] claiming an Amazon^[2] page for the garment had been posted to a private Facebook group for weather forecasters (shown below). Within two week, the post gathered upwards of 700 likes and 200 shares.

AUBURN 4NEWS CO MYERS EUFAULA Like Comment Meteorologist Jennifer Myers I bought today's dress on Amazon for $23! Someone posted a link to it on our broadcast meteorologist group Facebook page and it got REALLY popular. Album: Timeline Photos Shared with: Public More that 50 of us purchased the dress, so if you travel and watch the news, you might see something familiar you can find Jenny and me both in the collage Open Photo Viewer Download Embed Post Link to the dress: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0142M5M72? ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B01 42M5M72&linkCode=xm2&tag=meteojenn imye-20 Report Photo Like Comment Share November 21 near Dallas, TX - Edited

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The same day, the photo collage was reposted by Redditor WXGirl83 to the /r/funny^[3] subreddit, where it gained over 8,200 votes (97% upvoted) and 2,600 comments. On November 22nd, the technology news blog Tech Insider^[5] published an article about the dress. On November 30th, NPR^[4] broadcast an interview with meteorologist April Warnecke from Good Morning Arizona on 3TV in Phoenix, Arizona, who discussed the dress and its wide adoption by meteorologists.

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^[1] Facebook – Meteorologist Jennifer Myers

^[2] Amazon – Homeyee Womens Stretch Tunic Pencil Sheath Dress U837

^[3] Reddit – This is what happens when you post a link to a $23 dress on Amazon

^[4] NPR – On the Forecast

^[5] Tech Insider – Female meteorologists around the country are obsessed with the same exact dress

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The Meteorologist Dress refers to a women's garment which was worn by a large number of television meteorologists after being posted to a private Facebook group in November 2015.