JR Hehnly
EF4
They were just goofing around off-air and somehow the tape survived for our viewing pleasure.
1970s vintage weathercasts
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They were just goofing around off-air and somehow the tape survived for our viewing pleasure.
David Conaway
EF0
This does bring back memories. In my opinion Harold Taft was on of the great ones. He was a no nonsense type of forecaster who would get right to the point. I used to record his forecasts for several days leading up to a predicted severe weather day and then the day after to see how the event evolved in comparison to his forecast. He would many times explain what the models were forecasting and then give his reasoning as to why he would or would not agree with the models to come up with his own forecast. Quite a bit of the time, his forecasts would be different than what all of the other stations were predicting. Most of the other stations at the time would usually go along with what the NWS was predicting. I did learn a lot from him about the weather and certain situations that the models always seemed to not handle very well. One example is that once an arctic surface high reached a specific MB pressure, the air would be so dense that it would continue to move south regardless of the what the mid and upper wind flow would be. Usually once a winter this scenario would play out with the models, NWS, and the tv meteorologists predicting the cold air to stay north only to have it continue to plunge south through our area and Harold Taft most of the time would get it right. In regard to severe weather, most of the time he was the only tv meteorologist in DFW that would always point out the significance of right moving storms and how storms would evolve with a NW flow aloft with a strong southerly surface flow. With Harold Taft, you always got the weather and a little bit of education with each of his forecasts during a time when it was hard to get a hold of really good meteorology information/data.
Tom Dulong
EF2
Harold Taft
Growing up in Dallas and watching Harold Taft on TV was one of the main reasons I became a meteorologist. My mom gave me a map of the U.S that was covered in clear plastic along with some dry erase markers. Boy...did I want to be him! I was greatly saddened when I heard he had died of cancer years ago.
Growing up in Dallas and watching Harold Taft on TV was one of the main reasons I became a meteorologist. My mom gave me a map of the U.S that was covered in clear plastic along with some dry erase markers. Boy...did I want to be him! I was greatly saddened when I heard he had died of cancer years ago.
