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As winter weather season gets underway, more Coloradans use weather forecasts to plan travel, business, and everyday life. Stephen Raher visits the forecasters at the National Weather Service's office in Pueblo.
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Piece Description
As winter weather season gets underway, more Coloradans use weather forecasts to plan travel, business, and everyday life. Stephen Raher visits the forecasters at the National Weather Service's office in Pueblo.
Broadcast History
November 1, 2005. Rebroadcast November 5.
Transcript
*** SOUTHERN COLORADO WEATHER FORECASTING ***
ERIC WHITNEY: Winter doesn’t officially begin until December twenty-first. But much of Colorado has already been snowed on. When blizzards hit, or summer thunderstorms, people turn to radio, TV, and the internet to get weather information. Almost all of that information for Southern Colorado originates at the National Weather Service’s field office in Pueblo. Stephen Raher recently visited the office, and has this report.
STEPHEN RAHER: It’s a familiar sound if you’re an avid radio listener.
VICKY (KRCC’S MORNING FREEFORM HOST): Very nice day in store for most of our listening area today, if not all of it actually. Sunny skies, winds about ten miles per hour, and it looks like highs will be in the low sixties [fade under]
RAHER: Whether you get your forecast from the radio, or the Weather Channel or weather-dot-com, the basic...
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