Sunrise weatherman Sam Mac has admitted he doesn’t know how to read the weather.

If Sunrise weatherman Sam Mac was to actually produce the weather report himself, this might be the type of stuff we’d hear on the morning box. Why, you ask?

Because this man ain’t no meteorologist, despite the fact it’s kind of his job.

In an interview on Rove and Sam this morning, Mac admitted his role on the breakfast program was less meteorologist and something more like a stuntman — admitting to the radio duo that he doesn’t know a thing about how to read the weather.

The radio and TV personality is doing the media rounds today to promote his new show, Best Bits, but dished the dirt that he doesn’t “actually know the weather”.

“...This is a bit of a spoiler as well. When I do the weather I just read it off a clipboard, I don’t actually know the weather. Have I said too much?”

“Thing is, a lot of my friends thought when they heard I was getting this role, they’re like, ‘oh, I didn’t know you were a meteorologist’,” Mac said.

“I’m like, ‘I’m not a meteorologist. Actually, in fact I’m going to be eating the world’s hottest chilli, I’m going to be bungee jumping, I’m going to be doing aerial aerobatics, I’m going to be doing everything but...

He makes a point. Replacing former weathergirl Edwina Bartholomew less the two-months ago, he was involved in death defying dares for Sunrise in the first week of his first takeover, including eating the world’s hottest chilli and bungee jumping in Logan, Brisbane, on his first day of work.

“As a comparison, Edwina Bartholomew, who did the role before me, her first day was sent to a cotton farm to interview people about ... cotton,” Mac said.

No word on whether any former weather presenters had any clue how to read the weather either (though Today’s weatherman Steve Jacobs is a former actor), but seems like they were smart enough to keep the clouds at bay.

A spokesperson for Channel Seven told news.com.au Mac was “travelling for the show” and unavailable to speak, but said the conversation on radio was “all very much in jest”.

— youngma@news.com.au