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Kirk Mellish - Right Again!

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taylorengineer

Kudos to Kirk Mellish, Herb Emory, and WSB AM for yet another excellent job forecasting the latest weather system and coverage of the ensuing traffic problems.
For a station with no competition WSB still does a reasonably good job with news/traffic coverage and Kirk Mellish's forecasting accuracy and professionalism is second to none.
From one lone listener - good job and thanks!
 
Yes....kudos!
ALL the other guys got it? Then you didn't watch television!! The Weather Channel pegged it? You're serious??
Kirk consistently forecasts weather events correctly. He's not ALWAYS right but he does often point out that he is not getting his forecast from a burning bush or hairy thunderer up in the clouds. Forecasts are subject to computer and human error. But he seems to get it right the vast majority of the time - more so than any other forecaster with Ken Cook being the exception.
No other traffic or news reporting is in the same league as Herb and the WSB news team. I live on the west side of town - ever hear WGST give a traffic report for I-20 west? Not me......
WABE is showing potential - Dennis O'Hare was a good hire.
 
I didn't say he didn't get it right, what I said was that everyone else did too.
I do agree with your Dennis O'Hare opinion. Even though I don't listen to WABE, I remember his back on WGST with 60 at 6, so I know he's an outstanding reporter/anchor. WXIA was foolish to let him go.
 
Kirk is very sarcastic and demeaning sometimes to his audience. He is not a very warm person.
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...and what the frozen Atlanta streets need now are warm meteorologists. ;)

kum bah ya
 
BRENT said:
Kirk is very sarcastic and demeaning sometimes to his audience. He is not a very warm person.
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He is? I listen every morning. Kirk is a meteorologist first and a radio person second. He doesn't sound personable because he wasn't hired for his radio skills. He was hired for his scientific expertise.

I don't think he's either sarcastic or demeaning. At times I've heard him crow because he got something right, which is a little annoying but no big deal.
 
Yes, he will crow when he says he predicted a winter event, but does not ever give credit for any other forecast outlet, regardless of the outcome.
In fact he, or Cox, got rid of a thread last night where he was mocking the "great dusting" of Atlanta... It was totally a slap to all native AND even non natives of Atlanta...And especially when there were wreaks and a death on Atlanta Freeways...He is a disgusting fat, sad, miserable closet case/ who is too unattractive to be an on camera met at Channel 2, from a source at the station..
 
I have never heard Kirk display a negative attitude towards anyone. I'll say it again....Atlanta is fortunate to have scientists as capable as Kirk Mellish and Ken Cook(Fox5) available to forecast our weather.
I don't know Kirk or Ken Cook. Never met either one. Both may be trolls.
If everyone was beautiful we would all be male models.........
 
taylorengineer said:
Yes....kudos!
ALL the other guys got it? Then you didn't watch television!! The Weather Channel pegged it? You're serious??
Kirk consistently forecasts weather events correctly. He's not ALWAYS right but he does often point out that he is not getting his forecast from a burning bush or hairy thunderer up in the clouds. Forecasts are subject to computer and human error. But he seems to get it right the vast majority of the time - more so than any other forecaster with Ken Cook being the exception.
No other traffic or news reporting is in the same league as Herb and the WSB news team. I live on the west side of town - ever hear WGST give a traffic report for I-20 west? Not me......
WABE is showing potential - Denis O'Hayer was a good hire.
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taylorengineer said:
Yes....kudos!
ALL the other guys got it? Then you didn't watch television!! The Weather Channel pegged it? You're serious??
Kirk consistently forecasts weather events correctly. He's not ALWAYS right but he does often point out that he is not getting his forecast from a burning bush or hairy thunderer up in the clouds. Forecasts are subject to computer and human error. But he seems to get it right the vast majority of the time - more so than any other forecaster with Ken Cook being the exception.
No other traffic or news reporting is in the same league as Herb and the WSB news team. I live on the west side of town - ever hear WGST give a traffic report for I-20 west? Not me......
WABE is showing potential - Dennis O'Hare was a good hire.
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I don't listen to Wizbee much. But everyone else I heard that day seemed to predict what actually occurred.

Sorry to wiz on your parade Kirk, Sr.
 
The others predicted catastrophe, as they always seem to do. Glenn Burns is the forecaster of doom, be it snow, ice or thunderstorms. Same thing with Ken Cook and the other TV meteorologists. For this past week, we were hearing about "as much as 3 inches of snow blanketing the streets of Atlanta," (a quote from Glenn), to "we could get some pretty significant accumulations in the area" (that was from Ken).

Kirk? He accurately and calmly informed his audience on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday that we should expect only a dusting of snow, with slight accumulations. But then warned of that snow freezing over.

So, to the point of the first poster, Kirk got it spot on right when he downplayed the doom. As for the others, they predicted winter weather, but, from how they made it out, we should have expected The Blizzard of 2010.
 
One thing I did find funny was driving listening to WSB yesterday afternoon, I heard the station's top-of-the-hour imaging. It said, "Now to the WSB Storm Center for the latest severe weather information." I looked around and the sun was shining. The sky was pure blue. The streets were virtually clear.
 
I was listening to WGST and they said it was going to be sunny with a high in the low 80's. There may have been a computer error on that one.
 
Neil Millman said:
I was listening to WGST and they said it was going to be sunny with a high in the low 80's. There may have been a computer error on that one.
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I glad someone is keeping up with GST. Is the anybody in the WGST "on air studio"?
 
Partly off-topic funny story:

WSB plays recordings of Kirk Mellish's generic sounding weather forecasts when he is not there since he is their only metrologist, and has done this for a long time. I guess it is the last thing he does at the end of his work day.

I live on the west metro and we ususally get any storms first. Many years ago a freakish summer storm blew up late at night - roaring wind, thunder & lightening, seemed like a tornado. As we huddled in an interior room, tuned a portable radio to WSB. The weather was Mellish's prerecorded forecast for the night - "warm temps with a slight chance of precip." Laughable considering the circumstances.

Forturnately this was during the time WGST was on FM, so we could actually pick them up at night. GST used the Weather Channel, so we got the scoop on the storm. Later checked back with WSB and they did eventually update their forecast as the storm blew across the metro.

I laugh at the memory everytime I hear Mellish's lame pre-recorded forecasts that WSB still makes him do.

BTW - Mellish termed this latest winter weather as a "non-event." Considering that most schools were closed Friday and some workplaces impacted, and that the northwest metro schools are still out today, I'd have to say "non-event" was wrong!
 
StoneGT said:
BTW - Mellish termed this latest winter weather as a "non-event." Considering that most schools were closed Friday and some workplaces impacted, and that the northwest metro schools are still out today, I'd have to say "non-event" was wrong!
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I agree -- while the accumulation in the metro area was minimal, and just looking out the window didn't seem like much had happened, the ice together with the continued below-freezing temps made most secondary roads and neighborhood streets impassable -- I've been in Atlanta for over 21 years and this is the first time I was unable to get to work.

I just recalled an old discussion on WSB's morning show back when Bobby Harper, Kathy Fischman, Kim Peterson's news and Scott Slade's traffic -- they had been discussing Kirk Mellish (it was Melhuish back then) and his status as Atlanta's only full-time meteorologist -- Kathy's father was a doctor in New Orleans and they suggested that he could get a radio show up here -- he could be Atlanta's only full-time "media-urologist" -- funny how the brain remembers such stuff.
 
StoneGT said:
Partly off-topic funny story:

WSB plays recordings of Kirk Mellish's generic sounding weather forecasts when he is not there since he is their only metrologist, and has done this for a long time. I guess it is the last thing he does at the end of his work day.

I live on the west metro and we ususally get any storms first. Many years ago a freakish summer storm blew up late at night - roaring wind, thunder & lightening, seemed like a tornado. As we huddled in an interior room, tuned a portable radio to WSB. The weather was Mellish's prerecorded forecast for the night - "warm temps with a slight chance of precip." Laughable considering the circumstances.

Forturnately this was during the time WGST was on FM, so we could actually pick them up at night. GST used the Weather Channel, so we got the scoop on the storm. Later checked back with WSB and they did eventually update their forecast as the storm blew across the metro.

I laugh at the memory everytime I hear Mellish's lame pre-recorded forecasts that WSB still makes him do.

BTW - Mellish termed this latest winter weather as a "non-event." Considering that most schools were closed Friday and some workplaces impacted, and that the northwest metro schools are still out today, I'd have to say "non-event" was wrong!
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The Weather Channel is notorious for inaccurate, outdated forecasts. You are making a serious mistake if you depend on that source for emergency information - you might as well watch Glenn Burns.
This weekend's weather was a non event in meteorological terms. School was closed today in Douglas county. Does that mean today qualifies as an "Event?"
I have heard the prerecorded stuff too when there is weather happening outside. WSB only has one weather guy - maybe it could be argued that this is a weakness. Mellish does have an ISDN line at his home from what I'm told so he can get on the air quickly, if needed. Summertime thunderstorms are scary but hardly news and certainly not "freakish." Do you need Kirk to get on the air to tell you to come inside?
There are obviously people who don't care for Kirk Mellish. Glenn Burns and The Weather Channel are there for you.
 
hail2theorange said:
StoneGT said:
BTW - Mellish termed this latest winter weather as a "non-event." Considering that most schools were closed Friday and some workplaces impacted, and that the northwest metro schools are still out today, I'd have to say "non-event" was wrong!
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I agree -- while the accumulation in the metro area was minimal, and just looking out the window didn't seem like much had happened, the ice together with the continued below-freezing temps made most secondary roads and neighborhood streets impassable -- I've been in Atlanta for over 21 years and this is the first time I was unable to get to work.

I just recalled an old discussion on WSB's morning show back when Bobby Harper, Kathy Fischman, Kim Peterson's news and Scott Slade's traffic -- they had been discussing Kirk Mellish (it was Melhuish back then) and his status as Atlanta's only full-time meteorologist -- Kathy's father was a doctor in New Orleans and they suggested that he could get a radio show up here -- he could be Atlanta's only full-time "media-urologist" -- funny how the brain remembers such stuff.
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Maybe a media-urologist could tell me why I have to get outa bed to pee every night. Information much more useful then the damn weather........
 
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