![]() ![]() ![]() Your meteorologists should be students of the weather, scientists. If they were born with a weather name, like Freeze … maybe that’s too obvious. But I must ask: Save for looks, delivery, wardrobe, age, accent-is there any real difference between what you’ll tell me and what the weather folks at NBC, CBS, Fox, etc tell me? In other words, are there substantial reasons to pick a weather person?ĪF: Yes. J.P.: I watch the weather, I enjoy the weather, I’ve got nothing but respect for the weather. Bottom line: This is not your father’s weather world, J.P. The warning time on tornadoes has gone from five minutes to 13 minutes-20 years ago tornadoes happened without warning 74 percent of the time but now we get at least some type of warning out 69 percent of the time. The seven-day forecast is as good now as the five-day forecast was in 1988. The science is better than it’s ever been. ![]() If there are winds above 45 mph, there will be power outages-the above-ground power lines are vulnerable to big winds. Basically, if it rains an inch in New York City in less than six hours-there will be some type of flooding there’s just nowhere for the rain to go. ![]() We had two tornadoes touch down in the city limits in Brooklyn and Queens.Īnd we had a long-path tornado in Great River North on Long Island-that twister was on the ground for 4.5 miles with 85 mph winds! Not to mention the incredible flooding, the hot summer, and the early snowfalls we have had-including the October snowfall in 2011. In the past year, we have had two landfall hurricanes-Irene and Sandy. But we do need to pay attention most of the time around here-the weather is crazy in New York City these days. I like to think of the weather message as a “Call to Action” or a “Calming message.” If you don’t need to worry, I’ll tell you. And he has an opinion about television meteorologists-namely, that, when a potentially awful storm is coming, they will overstate the potential severity so that, afterward, people won’t say, “Man, 500,000 people without power … and all you said was there’d be some bad rain.” Is there any remote truth to this? Do weather professionals sometimes need to watch their backs?ĪMY FREEZE: Tell him to watch Channel 7. JEFF PEARLMAN: So Amy, I have a smart father. offers sun, 85 degrees-and one helluva Quaz … Ever.Īmy Tweets here, and one can visit her official website here and her blog here. Oh, and she’s agreed to speak to my journalism class at Manhattanville College. She lost a ton of weight, married BYU’s mascot, has traveled alone on an airplane with four kids and is a six-time marathoner. She did the same gig for the Chicago Bears. She was the first-ever female sideline reporter for Major League Soccer. Amy is the weekend meteorologist at WABC-TV in New York, but her resume offers up some long, winding, riveting stops and experiences. Hence, it brought me great joy when Amy Freeze-one of America’s most famous TV meteorologists-agreed to be Quazed. Alas, my life is a sad and incomplete one. Nick Gregory lives 1/4 mile from my home, but we’ve failed to chat. G once came to my elementary school, but not my class. Regrettably, I never knew anyone who did televised forecasts. Dating back to early childhood, I’ve always been fascinated by TV weather-people.Ģ) They always seemed to be very excited about weather. ![]()
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