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  • gumbowing

    What an awesome junior weather nerd! He even looks and sounds like Martin Prince on The Simpsons.

  • Guest

    Hey that ‘s my home town.  Fergus Falls Rocks! 

    This is par for the course. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2X6OHAN7GLVLAIP4QLECKD3NY4 morgane

    he’s adorable!

  • Jake0748

    Both the kid and the regular weather guy were great.  With a little polishing, they’d make an awesome team.  If anybody at that TV station had a clue, they would make it a recurring thing.

    • http://deansli.st/ Dean Putney

      I think this is a recurring thing. He mentions that it’s “weatherkid night, once again”.

      • Jake0748

        I get that.  I meant this particular kid.  He was so enthusiastic and knowledgeable.  If I had TV, I could see tuning in to watch him for 5 minutes.  :)

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

    Sometimes the local station drags a kid onto the weather segment to “help out.” This kid, while a bit dweeby, is totally comfortable with the technology and just launches right in. Really, a little polish and camera-awareness and he could have the older guy’s job.

    • Gatto

      You’re right. The kid was great! IANAM, but i think meteorologists do a full day’s work beforehand, putting together the maps, temperature predictions, and what not for the show. There’s not one set of data but a bunch, and they have put it all together to create the forecast. That’s why different outlets can have different outlooks, because different people are involved.

      • http://profiles.google.com/iandavidosmond Ian Osmond

        Betcha the kid can do some of the simple math on the predictions, too.  In middle school, we had units on meteorology, where we learned to read pressure maps, wind direction, and so forth — I remember very little about it, but I did okay on it.  I bet that kid, at nine years old, can do a better job than I could at eleven, and could do some basic predictions.  That could be a fun bit: the fourth-grader’s predictions vs the adults’.  I bet he’d do respectable-like, even if he couldn’t beat them.

    • Jeremy Pickett

      That’s exactly what I was thinking.  I was afraid it might be a, “make fun of this dorky kid” kind of video, but not at all.  With a little focusing of his enthusiasm he’d be flat out fantastic.  Rock on!

  • Bad Juju

    OK, the kid is precious & all that, but GOOD GOD, DO PEOPLE REALLY LIVE THERE?!  5 degrees, 18 degrees..when it’s that cold, does really it matter?  Those poor North Dakotan bastards.

    • Trevour

      Yeah, we really live here (well, I’m on the MN side of Fargo-Moorhead). And we like it!

    • marilove

      That kid went to winter camp where it was 20 degrees. My grandmother lives in the area and loves it. I think she’s crazy.

      Notice that they called 14 degrees “cool but breezy”.

      Not cold. Not MOTHER FUCKING FREEZING. But “cool”. And the kid got noticeably excited about 29 degrees, which these crazy people find to be a brisk spring day.

      • cub

        i was raised in the south, and i grew up visiting relatives in PA every summer, but it blew my mind to see people in chilly WI busting out the shorts on the first “warm” (>50 F) spring day.  acclimation is a helluva thing.

        • Antinous / Moderator

          Living in PS, the locals wear sweaters at 85° and the snowbirds are in shorts at 50°.

    • CH

      Um… yes? It’s called winter… the thingy with snow, you know? 5 F (-15 C) is a bit on the chilly side, but a totally normal winter temperature where I live. Just put on some proper clothing, and it’s fine!

      • Antinous / Moderator

        Not sure that you would be so cavalier about the weather if you visited me in July when it’s 123°.

        • Jeremy Pickett

          I’m a recent transplant to Phoenix from Oregon, and Antinous is right–5F is a completely different beast than 119F (which is the hottest I think i’ve been in).  When it’s cold you put on more clothes, but when it’s over say 105F you run out of things to take off.

  • Rossi

    I love awesome kids being awesome. My favorite is Reed Alexander cooking on the Today Show:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIDicBjUT2U

  • noah django

    I like William.  William was good.

  • Petzl

    They gave the kid 5+ minutes of airtime.  What, did he have the meteorologist’s family tied up somewhere?  This is in the King of Comedy zone.

  • Trevour

    I watch this “Scheels Weather Kids” segment every week, and not only does the kid steal the show, he dons a suit! Any other week you get a boy or girl wearing regular school clothes, with much less enthusiasm about delivering the forecast. I also read in the local paper that William couldn’t immediately be reached by media earlier this weekend because he was, indeed, at Cub Scout Winter Camp!

    • cub

      i have never been more riveted by a weather forecast.  if they want people to put down the remote, they should keep this guy– not just a weekly kid like they do, but THIS GUY.

  • Preston Sturges

    “Well Bob it’s colder than a witch’s tit in Aberdeen!”

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=8834925 Chauncey Scott

    Gangster. That is all.

  • Wendy Dinsmore

    Good job, kid! Do some more!