Julia McDermott Reprises Her Role In Netflix’s Limited Series ‘Weather Girl’ Produced By A24 & Team Downey

The forecast never looked so dramatic before. Per Deadline’s scoop nearly a year ago, Netflix has confirmed limited series Weather Girl is in development at A24.

Netflix won the rights after what’s been described as a “highly competitive pursuit,” with Team Downey also attached.

The series is based on Brian Watkins’ one-actor play of the same name that sold out at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, with the show’s star, Julia McDermott reprising the lead role she performed on stage and also producing.

Set in a wildfire-ravaged California, the show will follow career-driven television weather girl Stacey, whose polished on-air persona masks her deep anguish over the destruction consuming her hometown. After reporting from a burning home with a family of five inside, she begins to spiral. The plot intertwines fears of the climate crisis and a strange reunion with her mother, who abandoned her long ago.