Tonight’s forecast Hold on tight, weather enthusiasts! We’ve got a wild ride in store for you with some stormy weather on the horizon. If you’re a fan of thunder, lightning, and heavy rain, then you’re…
Category: Weather & TV
Wx Info: What is the Karrie Meter, how it came to be, where it will go next…
It turns out that the Karrie Meter has gained a lot of traction during the last seven years. In fact, we are coming up on the seven year anniversary of its unveiling. But not everyone…
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Wx Info: Connecting tornadoes directly to Climate Change is misleading
Climate Change is happening. Humans are not helping. Our activities are making it worse. There is no reasonable way to deny that when faced with the overwhelming evidence. I always laugh and say ‘no one…
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Over-alerted but under-informed: “Alert Days” blitzing through local TV stations
Article summary from ChatGPT: “The article “Over-Alerted but Under-Informed: Alert Days Blitzing through Local TV Stations” discusses the overuse of “alert days” by local TV stations, which can lead to viewers becoming desensitized to them…
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New Green Screen, who dis?
I’ve been working on some projects recently around my home office, trying to develop some new ways to share weather information with you, my awesome readers. Whether it is just a daily weather forecast or…
The news industry is designed to make on-air talent feel miserable
This is a post that a few people – one in particular – have been asking me to make for a while now. It isn’t the reason I left television, but it is a good…
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No more TV, now I can tell you how I really feel…
My last night at WDAM was Friday night. It has been a wild ride these last seven years. A lot of tornadoes. Like, too many. A few tropical storms. Even a few hurricanes. Floods. Oh,…
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Video: Storm chaser Mike Olbinski shares a TON of amazing storm footage
Vorticity 3 (4K) from Mike Olbinski on Vimeo. The video really needs zero introduction. However, some background. Mike is a fantastic photographer and videographer. Sure, he is a great storm chaser, too. But man, oh…
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Honest Movie Trailers: Twister
On a lighter note, here is an honest movie trailer for “Twister” one of the best weather movies of all time. Some times it is entertaining to poke fun at the things you love.
Celebrating #RetroDay with a throwback to my first reel
Just in case you wanted to know what it was like to watch me on TV in 2011. This was the tape I sent to John Harris at KAMR in Amarillo, Texas to get…
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