May 12, 2026 · 27 min · 15 segments
In this week's episode, and as a follow-up to 4.1, we pull back the curtain on life as a broadcast meteorologist: morning met schedules, important non-science classes, being on TV for the first time…
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So if you're one that wakes up in the morning, you're getting your coffee ready, you turn on the TV, and you see that man or woman on there giving you the forecast, who has a suit on, or in your case, has a very nice dress on, has the hair done right.
I was, uh, I was thankful to keep the hair really short, so it took all of two minutes to do that part.
Yep, and it's not like it's a lot for guys, but it's just enough, uh, because HDTV, it, uh, it shows everything, regardless of whether you want it out there or not.
So my alarm would go off between 1:45 and 2:00 in the morning, and then I would get in the station about 2:45, close to 3:00 on some days, but it's mainly 2:45 to 3:00.
And, uh, the producers knew, even if I was five minutes late, that something was probably off the rails.
Um, I spent most of my time, you know, a lot of our anchor teams were both a, a man and woman combined.
Sometimes, though, it was two women anchors, and so what would happen is if there was a suspicious guy outside the station, they would sit in the parking garage, and they'd wait for me to get there, [laughs] so that there was at least somebody, because there are some creepy people that roam the streets at 2:30 in the morning.
Yeah, especially on a, on a Thursday night into Friday morning, or goodness, especially New Year's Eve.
And if you probably ask anybody in law enforcement, they'll tell you the exact same thing.
So if you're one that wakes up in the morning, you're getting your coffee ready, you turn on the TV, and you see that man or woman on there giving you the forecast, who has a suit on, or in your case, has a very nice dress on, has the hair done right.
I was, uh, I was thankful to keep the hair really short, so it took all of two minutes to do that part.
Yep, and it's not like it's a lot for guys, but it's just enough, uh, because HDTV, it, uh, it shows everything, regardless of whether you want it out there or not.
So my alarm would go off between 1:45 and 2:00 in the morning, and then I would get in the station about 2:45, close to 3:00 on some days, but it's mainly 2:45 to 3:00.
And, uh, the producers knew, even if I was five minutes late, that something was probably off the rails.
Um, I spent most of my time, you know, a lot of our anchor teams were both a, a man and woman combined.
Sometimes, though, it was two women anchors, and so what would happen is if there was a suspicious guy outside the station, they would sit in the parking garage, and they'd wait for me to get there, [laughs] so that there was at least somebody, because there are some creepy people that roam the streets at 2:30 in the morning.
Yeah, especially on a, on a Thursday night into Friday morning, or goodness, especially New Year's Eve.
And if you probably ask anybody in law enforcement, they'll tell you the exact same thing.
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