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WASHINGTON — You may have already seen it — the dress that has “gone viral” among TV meteorologists.

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It is sold on Amazon and was shared in a private Facebook group for women in the business, and soon became a favourite among the ones who deliver your weather every day.

Many women meteorologists own the dress. And actually, this classically simple and inexpensive garment also says a lot about the everyday wardrobe challenges women face in the TV meteorology business.

It’s universally flattering, because viewers can be jerks. They’re the kind of people who will send messages to women after their broadcast, commenting on what they wore or how they did their hair, or maybe just how phenomenal they looked.

Lest you think only a few women are being heckled in this way, take the case of the bullied, pregnant meteorologist Kristi Gordon of Global News in British Columbia.

“Nowhere on North America TV have we seen a weather reader so gross as you,” an anonymous viewer wrote to Gordon, who was well-along in her pregnancy this year.

“Your front-end looks like the Hindenburg and your rear-end looks like a brick (obscenity) house.”

“Buy some decent clothes, and have more respect for your unborn child,” another heckler wrote.