- Good morning! I am Justin.
This is your weather report.
So this is gonna be a low,
and I think it looks like Montana or something.
Oklahoma maybe?
(playful music)
(footsteps)
- Well hello!
- Hi. - Hello! I'm Justin.
- Justin, nice to meet you.
Rich. - Nice to meet you.
- I'm Gigi.
- Gigi, very nice to meet you!
Clara, nice to meet you. My name's Rich.
So, what do you think I might do here?
- You're a news person?
- Kind of, but not really.
Do you know what I do?
- Uh, you...
You do the weather forcast?
- I do!
You might need your raincoat tomorrow.
- Oh! You're the weather person!
(crew member laughs) - You got it!
Good job! - Oh.
- I actually forecast the weather,
and then I spend many hours talking about it on TV
and drinking coffee.
(Justin laughs) It's a pretty good job really!
Tons of fun.
Where do you get your weather from?
- My mom's app.
- Oh her app does it, okay.
- Or I look outside.
- You know, looking outside's always a good move.
- We say like, "Alexa what's the weather like?"
And she tells us.
- I tell the weather on Alexa too.
You tell your parents they can program it,
so I can be one of the skills for Alexa.
- You know Alexa?
- Well, we go back a little ways.
(crew laughs) So.
- What time do you have to come here?
- I have to be here by about,
2:30, three o'clock in the morning.
Pretty early.
- What time are you on the news?
- Well we go on the air at 4:30 in the morning.
- What's your favorite kind of weather?
- I like rainy weather!
You guys like rainy weather?
- I like snowy weather and sunny weather.
I don't really like rainy though.
- No? Well you're in the wrong place.
- I know! (Rich laughs)
- How many days of a year does it rain in Seattle?
- You know, I don't know the exact number,
but a lot in the wintertime.
- Is it more than a thousand?
- No, not more than a thousand.
Do you know how many days there are in a year?
- 365 days.
- You got it. Bingo.
It's probably around 200-and-some days.
- Whoa. - Maybe 250.
Something like that.
- I have a couple questions.
- Okay. I hope I have a couple answers.
- What makes lightning storm?
- This may be surprising,
but we don't exactly know what causes lightning.
Do you know about electricity at all?
- Yeah.
You know there's different charges in electricity.
When there's heavy rain and hail
in these up and down motions,
you get the different types of charges.
The positive and the negative just get pulled apart.
And something,
and we're not really clear quite yet what it is,
something goes through that causes the lightning bolt
to go down, and then it finally goes down.
- That's cool.
- It's very cool.
- How do you make a tornado?
You get two liter bottles and you hook 'em together,
and fill 'em with water,
and then you do it like that and you can make a tornado.
But what causes a tornado?
(children laughing)
(Rich laughs)
You have really cold dry air that comes down,
and really warm wet air
that comes up out of the Gulf of Mexico.
And when those two kinda get together,
it makes these big differences in temperature.
- And it kinda looks like they're fighting.
- It looks like they're fighting, actually!
- Could we get tornadoes here?
- Actually we don't get very many here.
We get maybe one a year. Two a year at the most.
And they're normally really really weak ones.
- Wait, so it can't take down a house?
- [Rich] Not really.
We've seen take like, roofs off of houses.
- Is it supposed to snow a lot this year?
- Actually it may not snow a lot this year,
'cause we have what's called an El Niño.
- No!
- [Rich] Oh you know about El Niño?
- No.
- Oh, but the fact it's not gonna snow a lot.
- How long have you been a weatherman?
- I been a weatherman here in Western Washington
for 43 years.
A long time.
Long enough to actually see the climate change in here,
which is kinda crazy.
(children laugh) Yeah.
- Wait, what's the climate?
- Well that's a good question!
On any given day it might be warm or colder,
but if you add 'em all together and take the average,
we can tell the climate's warming.
- Oh! - Does that make sense?
- Yeah! - Is it bad?
- Well it can be bad,
because it causes the weather to change in places.
And some places the weather's gonna get really bad.
- Is it scary?
- Actually it is.
I do honestly, I worry about my kids and my grandkids.
- Is there anything that we can do to stop it?
- Well, probably the best way to stop climate change
is we have to stop putting greenhouse gases
into our atmosphere.
- What is this thing behind me?
- Well that's the big screen
that we do the weather in front of.
You guys wanna try pointing at the weather maps,
and see how you do? - Yes!
- Yes! - Let's go do that, okay?
Okay Melanie, so
when you're doing the weather,
what you have to do is
you have to look at what's going on on the map.
But the important thing is,
you have to look at the camera itself,
so that way you connect with the viewers in the cameras.
You have to imagine that you're talking
to little people inside the camera.
Okay? It's important to look at the camera.
Otherwise people think you're unfriendly.
And then they don't like you and you lose your job,
and life goes downhill.
Terrible things happen. (crew members laugh)
- Hi little tiny people!
- There they are! Just like that.
- Good morning!
I am Justin, and this is your weather report.
So this is gonna be a low,
and I think it looks like Montana or something.
Oklahoma maybe?
- I think we're in the 60 degrees.
And we are in Seattle.
Am I doing it right?
- You're doing great! - Oh okay.
- Hello! My name is Atlas.
This is the daily weather.
Then this is the stuff.
This is winds, and 48. (laughs)
- It's really really windy coming from the mountains.
It's a good day to wear a jacket.
- You got it. You're a natural.
- 45 low, 53, partly sunny, few showers, you know.
- Look at, oh! - Whoa!
- There's a lot of wind up here.
- Yeah.
- There it is. Oh, we have more wind!
There it goes.
- Oh!
- And that's the weather!
I'm Clara.
- I'm Rich.
- So have a nice day.
- Bye! - Bye!
- Thank you guys. Thanks for coming in.
Come visit again, okay? - Rich!
- Rich!
(crew laughs)
- Bye guys. Thank you! (crew applauds)
- Bye! - Bye!
I'm Rich Murray.
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(crew laughs) Just enjoy it.