[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Name of WCVB meteorologist I was Trying to Remember

Wed Mar 29 13:24:22 PDT 2023

Al Kaprielian was a quirky TV weatherman in Southern NH. He was born in 
Natick. He has won best forecaster and best media personality awards in 
local media. The stations could be heard in the Boston area.

Here is one of many write ups:
https://armenianweekly.com/2010/09/06/al-kaprielian-reigns-as-ultimate-meteorologist/

On 2023-03-29 15:21, OLGA P GUTTAG wrote:

> We have a meteorological treasure right in our own town - JJ Krawczyk 
> (email in a CC)!
> Olga
> 
> On Mar 29, 2023, at 3:16 PM, Robert Primak <bobprimak at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, Harvey Leonard is one of the good ones.
> 
> -- Bob Primak
> 
> On Wednesday, March 29, 2023 at 03:07:35 PM EDT, Joel Shwimer 
> <shwimer at tiac.net> wrote:
> 
> Harvey Leonard (Channel 5?)
> 
> On 3/29/2023 2:58 PM, Stan Rose wrote:
> 
> For those of you who grew up in the Boston area in the 60s, my favorite 
> forecasters were Don Kent and Bruce Schwoegler, both on WBZ.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2023, 12:49 PM Robert Primak <bobprimak at yahoo.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> During the post-presentation chatter, Ted Kochansky and I were trying 
> to remember the names of local Boston meteorologists with good 
> forecasting reputations. I had forgotten WCVB's Mike Wankum. He's not 
> the only reliable weather forecaster, but he's been around awhile and 
> is very good.
> 
> That's the name I was fishing for.
> 
> No matter -- the best meteorologist is the one who gives the storm 
> warning and saves your hide while you are watching.
> 
> I'm not kidding -- I grew up in the suburbs of the Chicago area, away 
> from the protective effects of Lake Michigan. So I know what a tornado 
> warning looks and feels like, and what happens when people don't get or 
> don't heed the warnings -- as in Belvidere, IL in 1967 -- one of ten 
> tornadoes that afternoon, with tragic death tolls. Forecasting has come 
> a long way since then.
> 
> Plainfield, IL (Coal City) tornado of 1990:
> https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-coal-city-plainfield-tornado-20150624-story.html 
> (No paywall.)
> 
> I did not find information about this tornado being anticyclonic, 
> though I recall that at the time there was speculation that it was 
> rotating the "wrong" direction. There were a few factors which raised 
> the death toll, including no advance warning. There were several 
> reasons for that lack of warning, not the least being that the local 
> Doppler radar had been hit by lightning. Usually, anticyclonic 
> tornadoes are much weaker and shorter-lived than cyclonic tornadoes. 
> (This applies in both hemispheres, even though anticyclonic in the 
> Southern Hemisphere would be counterclockwise.)
> 
> Rare Clockwise Tornado
> https://www.insidescience.org/video/rare-clockwise-tornado
> 
> -- Bob Primak
> 
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