Portfolio Plan (01/26/22)

    I planned the portfolio for my magazine by choosing a genre I was rather knowledgeable about and interested in, which likely wouldn't and ultimately didn't yield many notably popular or long-lasting sources. However, I had experience reading weather articles from books and websites, which had a picture-text symbiosis that never ran out of visual depictions of weather. In that regard, the idea has limitless potential and few boundaries, so creativity likely won't be a challenge of this magazine. The research, however, will be intensive and likely needs to be credited, and gaining information from interviews will be as difficult as usual.

    The magazine is not meant to alienate non-weather nerds/enthusiasts, which would be easy to do (by presenting information mostly in a factual and interesting rather than purely statistical way), except for the lack of local or even general regional daily and weekly forecasts due to unlikely accuracy in forecasts issued a month or so apart (per issue).

    Right now, I'm thinking I'll call it Tornadic Times, indicating the coverage and presence of wild weather. More than half go the magazine's articles will cover current and historical events, with others covering information, preparation, long-term forecasts, and opinions. Due to each season's weather patterns and events being different (summer and fall have hurricanes while winter and spring bring cold), all articles will likely pertain to past, present, and future weather patterns of the season they are published in. These events will likely focus on U.S. weather, but that could change and likely will for long-term forecasts and historical events.