More Coffee Please!
Good Morning!
Another tough alarm clock day! 3:45 am is just not fun. I used to get up every morning at that time when I was in radio–and it never got any easier. The only difference is in radio I didn’t have to spend an hour in hair and makeup (not that I don’t love Carol and Mario – they let me sleep while they work miracles with brushes, sprays and goop), but once again, I am forever a ponytail and a no makeup-(just a touch of strawberry lipbalm)- girl.
Once I was able to drink half a gallon coffee and eat half a blueberry muffin in the greenroom (where Alisyn likes to hang out and do crazy stuff after Fox and Friends 
)I feel a little more human.
So….I have some disappointing news. Greg Kelly didn’t seem to enthusiastic to do the weather today. I don’t know what happened overnight! He seemed so excited to do it yesterday. Maybe I can tease him about it during the show, and he’ll have no choice but to do it tomorrow. 
I think your suggestions about Greg doing his Elvis impression while doing weather is great too.
Brian Kilmeade just asked me if I knew what the weather was going to be like on Saturday. Geez! Does he do this to Steve Doocy?
More later!
jd
Yep the questions about the weekend are the most popular questions for us weather folk. We used to get calls when I worked in Alaska from Colonels and the like about hunting weather for the week. Being a first term Airmen then…getting a call from a Colonel saying ‘I need weather for this place for this amount of time’ you think okay he must have mission or something going on, but no, its only his personal hunting trip he is worried about. Oh well…the life of a weatherman.
Take care
maybe Greg was afraid he would have to dance?? haha !
Greg is a BIG CHICKEN! Tell him I said that, he should do it. How many times can you do the weather? It is something he can look back on with fondness. Okay I know he is still a chicken, but I want him to do it.
If only I controlled FoX!
Kathy,
I just spoke with Gretchen in the hallway, and she’s going to help me tomorrow get Greg to the greenwall!
Just saw this on the Mt Baker Ski Resort site and thought of the Weather Machine … “We are entering the climatologically stormy time of the year – Stand by for storms …” Alisyn knows about that place …
What’s the long term forecast for the PNW?? I know there’s rumors of La Nina returning … Are we headed for a piddly winter like 2000-2001 season or will our socks be knocked off like 1998-99 ??
http://www.mtbakerskiarea.com/info_stats.php
Definitely signs of La Nina this year, Tiamat, and yes, that usually means a wetter than average winter in the NW…(while the rest of the country in extreme drought will more than likely see conditions worsen- i.e. the southeast). There is a stormy pattern setting up right now in the Pac NW with some pretty dynamic systems coming out of the Gulf of Alaska- that’s something we’ll be focusing on this weekend for sure! Thanks for the question Tiamat, and David and Tom should be able to chime in on this forecast as well!
jd
Natalie you have a point, I bet JD is a better dancer than Greg!
Janice,
As I said in an earlier post meteorology is now just a hobby…yeah right…my latest comments to those who ask me for a forecast is “take two umbrellas and call me at the office” of course I no longer go to the office, so sorry about that, but having said that I’ll send your viewers/blog posters to a site that may be able to answer their legitimate questions.
http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/lanina_new_faq.html
Tom
Tom, I say “look out your window” all the time when I get hit with the “I have a golf game this afternoon Machine – what’s the weather!!
Hey, JD! I think your dancing rocks.
I don’t think Greg is willing to leave his comfort zone. Does that mean he isn’t a good sport? I’m just asking…
I think you should get Greg to log on to your blog so he can see and read for himself how much we would love to see him do the weather.
Janice,
I’d like to have been more specific in my answer, but I’ve spent my entire career in the Southern Region so severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes are really my forte. Snowstorms, other than the rather puny, but nonetheless interesting storm in South Texas is a rarity to me, Nor’easters are just something I’ve read about. I’ve only been to New York once and that was probably before you were born. We all know the dynamics, but that’s not like working it yourself.
I’ll defer any questions about snow to David, who is in the “frozen tundra” of Montana and has apparently also worked in Alaska, another frightenly cold place to southerners.
So David it’s up to you for anything WAY UP NORTH. :>)
Thanks, Tom…a coastal creature who likes it hot and humid. :>)
Sal,
Weather is weather,but when I was in the AWS we concentrated strictly on the “air patch” meaning only what effected our base…that was a long time ago and may have changed, but in my day we weren’t even allowed to discuss weather with non-military folks…meaning if a local news station called I could not help them. Our mission was strictly to protect the aircraft and the AFB…nothing else. The USAF I assume is still primarily dedicated to aviation weather while the NWS is responsible for the protection of life and property for all citizens.
By the way, did you check out Popeye…I could tell you stories about that, but as far as I know I have never been released to talk about what I know about it. The only reason I mentioned it was because the Project itself was outted many years ago.
There has been a considerable change in USAF weather whereas the very few Gray Berets fom back in the day are now assigned to Army units like the Ist Cav and the 82nd so I’m assuming that there are many more now.
I hope I helped, but may have confused more than explained.
I’m moving this post to a newer one because I didn’t see you question until today.
Tom
Hey, Tom:
Yes, it does answer my question. Thanks!
Yes, I checked out Popeye. Interesting stuff, too. Wow, what havoc that rainfall caused!
Yes, I have read about many Grey Berets assigned to Army units nowadays. I saw a USAF CWT sarge wearing a 10th Mountaineers patch on his Air Force cammies!
Sal
Sal,
If I told you how paraweather operated in Vietnam you wouldn’t believe it…a M-16….a .45 a WBAN…a radio and a sling pyschrometer. And you better have some good boots. Cause they ain’t comin’ after you.
HALO in…hump out.
Tom
Hey, Tom:
I certainly would like to hears some of those paraweather stories. HALO in…hump out. I BELIEVE IT!
God!
BTW-Ummm…what is WBAN?
Sal
Sal,
WBAN was Weather Bureau, Army, Navy. It was a form where surface observations were recorded. Those were…let’s see it if can remember from left to right…time of the observation…ceiling or cloud heights…visibility, present weather i.e. fog, thunderstorm etc, SLP, temp, dewpoint, wind direction and speed, pressure in inches… i.e. 994 meant 29.94 inches, and then column 13 where you could expand on what you could see such as CB 20 E movg W, or whatever you thought was appropriate…and then of course your initials so they could blame you later. :>)
The NWS no longer takes this type of observation it’s been contracted out except maybe in the Alaska and Pacific Regions.
I beleive the form is now the 10C…and if I start talking about the Circular 9 please tell me to up my medication. :>)
Tom