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A tribute to Tom Skilling and all meteorologists in Chicagoland

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Meteorology, or the science of guessing the weather on television, has been an entertaining segment since humans began watching “tele-vision.”

Oftentimes, the “weather reports” were the least frightening to handle, compared to the growing domination of crime news that has filled up the expanding TV news broadcasts.

There’s so much violence in the world that you could produce a 24-hour a day news report just on crime. Oh, wait, they do have one, called Forensic Files, which I watch to learn the latest strategies to avoid getting captured if I ever commit a major crime.

Last week, after watching and enjoying Tom Skilling’s weather reports for the past 46 years, Skilling retired. Skilling had such a perfect personality who could calm you down even during a tornado.

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Even though weather forecasts are like throwing a dice and the odds of the predictions are risky, Skilling did a great job of being one of the least biased and most trusted people on television.

 

Also remembering several great weathermen, including P.J. Hoff and Harry Volkman, and including many other great meteorologists.

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