Subj : The storm that wasn't
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Barry Martin
Date : Sun Mar 12 2023 07:41:00


Hi Daryl!

 DS>   I saw a video on Facebook, where WGN-TV in Chicago, is
 DS> celebrating 75 years on the air. There was a segment on long time
 DS> meteorologist Tom Skilling, who has been there for 45 years. He
 DS> takes the complicated weather terms, and brings them down to
 DS> layman's terms, where folks can get an understanding of what may
 DS> occur.

Which makes sense.  One of the local TV meterologists posts an on-line 
article about once a week on a weather term.  Here during the forecats 
they do use a graphic or two while briefly explaining but sounds like
Tom Skilling does it more in-depth.  (I rememeber seeing him when I had
cable and WGN was part of the line-up.)

Locally had WOC-TV which first aired October 31, 1949.  Several years
ago they 'modernized' the call to KWQC -- allegedly KW for both sides of
the River (call signs starting with K generally on the west and W on the
east) and QC for the Quad Cities.  I'll admit to not wanting them to 
change: can't get three-letter calls any more, plus the history.


 BM> That snowstorm could be *brutal* for you guys!
 DS>   We may get more ice...hailstones, that is...instead of snow.
 DS> But, snow has fallen in Little Rock twice on April 19 (it didn't
 DS> stick), and a few years ago, on Mother's Day Weekend, northwest
 DS> Arkansas got 7 inches of heavy wet snow. The cold wiped out a lot
 DS> of vegetation, crops, gardens, etc.

We've had some small amounts of snow lately.  Did notice last week some 
of the trees were budding; I guess the good news is it has been just 
below freezing so shouldn't been too much damage due to freezing.



 BM> You could give some false readings being all excited from the ride in!
 DS>   I don't want to go back into sinus tachycardia again.

(For a split-second I was thinking the sinuses in the head!)  Who's 
playing the William Tell Overture?!

 
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