Kenan Coverage

You gotta hand it to The Weather Channel. For pure entertainment value (or is it just me?) they are keeping it jumping across the eastern seaboard. Of course, there's Jim Cantore being wind blasted in Boston, but I am also duly impressed and riveted by others (more below). Yes, things are significantly calmer here in Amherst, but with near-hurricane force winds bearing down in Boston (and earlier South Shore and other coastal locations), there's a lot to experience vicariously. It's a truly impressive broadcast/coordination effort - the network is seamlessly handing off to meteorologists in about two dozen blizzard locations. 

As expected, Jim Cantore is slaying the commentary from downtown Boston today - "YOU CAN'T SEE ANY OF THAT, YOU CAN'T SEE ANY OF THAT!" (referring to buildings on State Street) - but there are other Weather Channel meteorologists to watch for:

• Felicia Combs - she's situated in Montauk, New York (Long Island) and is superb at describing every aspect of this storm, from what wind driven surf feels like, to being stranded in a car, etc. She just never runs out of ways to talk about the situation. Also, she's from Macon, Georgia, so it's fun hearing her marvel on just how extreme it feels to be in the midst of a blizzard. She's "oh, wow," like an innocent to our weather, and then proceeds to show her real weather chops (just in case you thought she was a mere neophyte to blizzards or the weather world). 
• Tevin Wooten - he's in New York City, where things aren't that wild, but he managed to demonstrate how light and "not sticky" the snow was this morning by trying to "dunk" a snowball (it just fell apart). And then he said something like, "I can't dunk like Lebron James, but I CAN talk weather." And then he proceeded to do just that. 

There's some amazing talent out there, meteorologists you don't always see up front and center.

And that's just a start. Props to the weather forecasters - people love to complain about the forecast, but a lot of lives are saved (and entertained) on days like these, thanks to folks like them.