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Question for KPLEXCOMPLEX

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Robert Bass

A few months ago, I believe you stated weather patterns had returned to normal in North Texas. As I also recall, around that same time, the NWS said North Texas should expect a drier than normal Spring.

Have you ever considered a job in Meteorology? ;) Or do you already work in that field? ;D

Whatever your secret... Good call! :) :) :)

And speaking of wx, I can't bear to watch KK. Is she doing the deer...headlights for all the flood watch / warning conditions?

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KK is terrible when storms come through. Absolutely awful.

An aside...I know many here at RI don't like the WFAA team but they really are doing a good job and it looks like their commitment to weather and wall-to-wall promotion of Delkus is paying off.

Anybody seen the latest numbers? Uncle Barky breaks them down at his site and WFAA is tops with huge viewer gains apparently at the expense of KXAS in almost all newscasts. I think the only show WFAA isn't winning is the morning casts which Fox 4 is tops and of course the 4:00 PM show, where 8 doesn't compete.

Who's last? Guess? KTVT. I think weather has much to do with that...and love his style or hate it the Delkus message is getting out with a huge billboard, newspaper, radio and magazine blitz.

Goes to show what a little promotion can do.
 
Well thanks Robert. I actually considered going into meteorology,and I had "audited' a few classes. Why I didn't and go for the AMS.I don't know. Only Tech and A&M have degrees in the field and I didn't want to be an "aggie";) and Lubbock is well..Lubbock. I actually learned believe it or not from the late Harold Taft. I attended a few lectures he gave,watched his methods and how he deciphered the information. Two things stand out, in Texas if there is an outbreak of thunderstorms in February..then you will have a few days in April where it will get cold. (depending where you are)It did this year. If you see a "dust devil" it means seven more days of dry weather. Now ,these "weather folklores' actually come from The Cherokee and Commanche" tribes,but damn if they aren't true.

Nature always balances itself out. We had two years of severe drought,now we are in a rain period. It will get drier around the third week of June,and not much going on in July and August. The coast though will have some tropical depressions form.. I say 3 (approx) One might grow into a hurricane depending how far off the coast it is.

That is my "long range forecast";)

Khristine, just seems to melt whe nsevere weather takes place and they need to hire a coach for her or yank her in favor Of Mike Burger. he seems more "collected' than her.
Channel 8 has good lead ins for their news,so thats one thing in their favor/ Pete is terrible. He is too dramatic. They made a mistake when they didnt put Steve in as Troys replacement.
 
KPLEXCOMPLEX said:
and Lubbock is well..Lubbock.
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Happiness in your rear view mirror? ;D

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Small wonder why Buddy Holly,Buddy Knox,Waylon Jennings, and Mac Davis left.
 
KPLEXCOMPLEX said:
Small wonder why Buddy Holly,Buddy Knox,Waylon Jennings, and Mac Davis left.
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Don't forget me also.....
 
You'd think that, alongside practical experience and schooling, a weathercaster/meteorologist would be "tested" to see if they have grace under pressure before being put on the air. I know of one "weather girl" (who shall remain nameless, but certainly NOT a meteorologist) who was doing weather briefly for TXCN who got beyond flustered once when reporting an approaching line of tornado-producing storms, and shrieked on the air, "I JUST CAN'T HANDLE THIS!!" (No, not Nancy Snell or anyone else you'd normally associate with TXCN. This person is still on the daily payroll across the parking lot!)

Then, in the other extreme, we had the animated Dr. Dave Eiser at Channel 33 way back when, who was quoted in the paper once as saying that, "Thunderstorms get me off better than sex does." (or something to that effect.)

Steve McCauley lives and breathes this stuff, and if I had to award anyone the Harold Taft crown for bringing science down to terms a viewer can understand, he'd get it. I've learned more from watching his weathercasts than from a million Ron Jacksons and Mike Burgers. And nothing against the rest of the Channel 8 crew...the whole group seems to have more of that "passion" for Texas weather than the other stations combined. And, with everyone now being an amateur weather prognosticator (thanks to the web especially,) WFAA's weather plays to one's intelligence...not just to that basic need for forecasts, temps, and "will it rain tomorrow" (as the CONsultants have told stations to do since the 70s.) Texas weather is a different animal than that.

OK, those of you who've been in the DFW area for a while...is it a true story or urban myth that one local weatherman got "worked over" in the parking lot one night after a newscast by a couple of people who were agitated that he got a forecast wrong...something about predicting sunshine when it instead rained, and ruined some event that the agitators were doing. This was like early- to mid-70s.
 
MikeShannon914 said:
Then, in the other extreme, we had the animated Dr. Dave Eiser at Channel 33 way back when, who was quoted in the paper once as saying that, "Thunderstorms get me off better than sex does." (or something to that effect.)
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:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

:(

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It was.....a guy named Chris Marrou who is now a (and has been) a news anchor for channel 5 in san Antonio. He was a weekend guy at 8. It took place in 1971.
 
And in case any of you have doubts about this being plausible or simply a myth, just call Savage and Hyneman. ;)

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OK, here's the actual 1985 quote from Dr. Dave on Channel 33...maybe not as risque as I stated earlier, but funny nonetheless..."I'd rather watch a thunderstorm in the middle of the night than lie in bed with my girlfriend."
 
MikeShannon914 said:
Then, in the other extreme, we had the animated Dr. Dave Eiser at Channel 33 way back when, who was quoted in the paper once as saying that, "Thunderstorms get me off better than sex does." (or something to that effect.)
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Sounds like Goosman when he was at KTVT
 
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