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...certainly understandable to be frustrated with last week’s inaccurate prediction, and it was certainly the most notable meteorological screw-up in recent memory. However, to claim that the weatherman is “always wrong”—as we have heard it said—is simply unfair and untrue. Meteorologists make accurate predictions on a daily basis about things less exciting or salient than a major snowstorm (but no less influential to our daily lives): temperature, wind speed, humidity, and more. Even with major weather events such as blizzards or hurricanes, they...
...have always loved mysteries, from when I was 7 years old. The Hardy Boys, Sherlock Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe. I always thought someday I'd love to write a murder mystery. The obvious way would have been to write about a weatherman who's an amateur sleuth, but that would be a little too obvious. I've made my hero a chef. The chef is African American, a little on the stocky side and bald. Which pretty much rules out Will Smith or Jamie Foxx playing me in the movie...
...same things everybody gets ticked off about. I'm always kind of amused when people say I never seem to get upset. Call it a hunch, but I think a grumpy weatherman isn't something that would play very well...
What is the best thing about being a weatherman...
...desire to be a weatherman. I wanted to be a TV writer or producer. In my sophomore year of college, my department chairman put me up for a weekend weather job in Syracuse, N.Y., which was odd because he told me in my first performance class that I had the perfect face for radio...