[2] Columnist Alice Hughes described her appearance: She's 5-feet-7, weight 115, sea-blue eyes, long loosely combed red hair and a 33-21-33 figure.

[3] Thurman, who lived in Palm Springs, California, until her death on September 17, 2012,[4] became one of the most familiar radio voices of the late 1950s in her role as Miss Monitor.

Jack Gould, writing in The New York Times, described her as someone who "made the [weather] report sound like an irresistible invitation to an unforgettable evening.

"[5] It began during a modeling assignment on the Today show, where she caught the eye and ear of one of the producers who was part of the Monitor planning team.

[1][6] With her alluring, breathy delivery heard against a background of lush, romantic music, Thurman gave NBC's sexy weekend weather reports from 1955 until 1961.

[14] In "Fair-Weather Friends", Time (April 12, 1968) remembered Thurman: Just about every TV station in the nation has its own weatherman nowadays, but the trouble with a great number of them is that they are cloudy and mostly windy.

[16] Edge editor Steve Weinstein, reviewing the film June 4, 2006, noted: Robey traveled to Palm Springs to interview Tedi Thurman, the campy weather girl of Jack Paar’s "Tonight Show”, who had a stormy longtime relationship with Peggy Fears.