Our superb climate is perfect for hiking, biking, skiing and gardening. I am grateful for the opportunity to return home and be part of the outstanding weather team at KGO-TV. Raising a growing family, I took a break from weather spending two years with my family in Hawaii (lucky me)!, before developing a case of island fever and sliding into the weekends at ABC7. I don't think I've seen it rain that hard in my life! That was the year I was honored for a second time with an award for forecasting by the Bay Area Women in Radio and Television. Tremendous pacific storms brought drenching rains and damaging winds to the Bay Area. Yet my biggest weather challenge was the El Nino winter of 1997. We then shared several days without power with my new neighbors, new friends and colleagues. My newborn and our little family huddled together as over 100 mph winds slammed our house. The Jewel Box in Golden Gate Park was destroyed and giant redwoods near our home swayed, but did not fall. Just as exciting, was the December '95 wind storm that slammed the Bay Area. I will never forget that first summer and the June fog that welcomed me home in 1995. The opportunity to test my forecasting skills against the micro climates of the Bay Area. The windy city is where I got married and had my first child and I have to say not unlike Buffalo or South Bend for grey skies, never ending winters & hardy souls. I spent two years forecasting more lake effect snow and 'Alberta Clippers' that make winters famous in Chicago. 'Southern Hospitality' I can say is alive and well!īut I wasn't done with the cold and snow. This is where I earned my forecasting Seal of Approval and was just about the only 'Yankee' to come to those parts since the civil war. First stop, the challenge of forecasting for the Cumberland Plateau and the Great Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee. The bleak winter landscape was a lot like Buffalo and I wasn't' sad to kiss South Bend 'wind chills', goodbye. No kidding!Īfter graduating from the University of Notre Dame, I found myself focused on the sky. I lived in a 'Lake Effect' zone and was used to winters that stretch well into April and sometimes May and school years that went to nearly the 4th of July. Growing up in Buffalo, New York, I was always fascinated by the weather.
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