A Year Of Exceptional Weather

You’ll excuse me, but back in January I was a little numb! That being said it’s really amazing just looking at the stats! Three major snowstorms and two smaller ones all in fourteen days!

Amy, the assistant news director, came to me a few days ago. We’ll be doing recaps of the top stories of 2011. Four of the top ten are weather related. She asked if I’d package them.

She’s my boss. I can’t say no. Actually, I don’t want to.

These year-end packages are a staple of news in an otherwise slow time of year. There’s enough time available to show detail.

This is as close as I get to documentary work. We all lived through a year of exceptional weather!

I wrote about the snows of January tonight. It airs next Monday.

You’ll excuse me, but back in January I was a little numb! That being said it’s really amazing just looking at the stats! Three major snowstorms and two smaller ones all in fourteen days!

Unrelenting. Records set left and right.

Roof rakes!

Brian, an editor at the Courant, showed me their searchable database with full text from the paper. Incredibly valuable.

Still to come the Springfield tornado, Irene and the October snow from hell!

It’s funny how things change. At my last job I was discouraged from doing this kind of thing. I still can’t figure out why.

12 thoughts on “A Year Of Exceptional Weather”

  1. The people at your last job were definitely holding you back. What seemed (at the time) to be a downer has really been the best thing to happen, I think.

  2. The “vibe” comes from the top and trickles or snowballs down. Whether the vibe is good or bad is entirely up to those who sit up there.
    Be grateful for the new vibe in your life and enjoy the heck out of your end-of-year foray into documentary work! I know we will!

  3. WTNH has changed alot, new reporters, anchors etc. it’s not a station I watch anymore. Honestly, the new weatherman is stone-faced and I can’t stand watching him! Fox is much better and I look forward to these broadcasts of yours.

  4. I still do watch WTNH at lunch time and i do notice that your station is a little more relaxed most of the time. There seems to be more camaraderie- what i used to see on the other station. i am so happy you are back Geoff and love your “geek” stuff on the news.

  5. Geoff, did the Tuscaloosa/Birmingham tornadoes and the associated outbreak really not make the top 10??? That story was certainly on par with the Joplin tornado if not bigger if you consider it was really a 3-day event and cumulatively more people died than in the one Joplin tornado.

    For those of us who can’t see your shows, what were the other six non-weather stories in your top 10??

  6. Geoff while you worked with some smart people at wtnh, they were not used to their potential and a lot of them have been let go.

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