1-28-28 Lane of Midwest Weather on ROCK 108

Start setting their latest called toxic on the rock what a way morning you were Ned I had the discussion about the radioactive part of that song I Don't remember I all of a sudden hooked as listen as I was listening to that song.

I hooked I hooked on the radioactive

part.

Yeah

And now all I hear is that song from a few years ago, radioactive.

Do you remember that song?

It was a pop crossover,

a

big hit song.

I can't remember who did it, but it was

on all the shows.

I know what you're talking about.

I can't think of it off the top of my head.

Was that Imagine Dragons, maybe?

That's it.

That's it.

Very Brian.

Your brain is so supple.

Thank you.

Imagine Dragons, I

think.

And a lot of rockstations played Imagine

Dragons

before they realized they shouldn't

have.

Yeah, no.

Thank you for not having us play Imagine Dragons.

They have two songs in their catalog, and they just recycle different lyrics with those two songs.

They're one of the very few bands I will go off on and say, oh, Imagine Dragons is great.

No, they're not.

No, they're not.

No, they imagine that they are putting out good material.

And where are they now?

What's that?

Where are they now?

In a dragon cave.

They're resurfacing roads in eastern Illinois.

Digging ditches.

Normally a top five Tuesday, but we have a guest on the show right now.

Crazy, crazy weather in January.

Kind of all over the place.

Lane from Midwest weather returns to the show.

Lane, great to see you again.

Welcome back.

Yeah,

I'm bloody back.

Let's let's recap.

Midwest Weather is a Facebook site that some of us were following a lot because it seemed as though they were doing better forecasts further out than the news stations, the TV news stations.

And like we were really following it.

And then we decided we should dig in a little deeper into what this whole Midwest weather guy is all about because he was taking heat from.

He was taking heat from the TV forecasters who are actually posting.

Don't listen to this guy.

He's forecasting too far out.

He's, you know, they were throwing some heat at him.

So we dug in and found out that Lane Engels Shaw was Midwest weather.

And he was a high school student What what high school do you go to Lynn?

I don't know if Lynn North Lynn High School We we didn't know where he's from because of Midwest weather covering the the entire Midwest and then we found out he was in the foot print of rock one oh eight and a Listener to rock one away in that wild every day

every day So Lane what in let's start there you got interested in weather at what age?

And it was about six or seven six or seven so for the last decade or so You have been so interested in weather so much so that now when did you start the Midwest weather page?

I started in 2020 so four years ago

four years ago,

okay

So it's an outgrowth of being home for COVID Yeah, that's the reason I started

it

and so then what have you changed since the last time you were here, which was it was last July

What's changed for Midwest weather, at least on your end?

Well,

I've grown the team a little bit more.

I've gotten two, maybe three more people since last July.

Wow.

So with those members, how does that help you out in order to put out the forecast that you do and some of the stuff that you do at Midwest weather?

Well, some of them will moderate comments.

So like two of them will delete comments or ban people, like any weird comments, stuff like that.

And a couple others will help with forecasting.

Gotcha,

so do you get enough the comments that need moderation?

Yeah, that's plenty of them Like what well just two days ago actually I had another meet all this one news station in Wisconsin message down there Tell me I'm in it for like stuff like that But like that post few a few years ago with that gap pretty political

I think it been like 300 people that day.

You got political?

No.

People on Facebook did.

They got political.

On your Midwest weather page.

How do you get political over weather?

Well, I made a post saying that the snow and the Gulf of Mexico, a lot of people were saying the Gulf of America.

When you report fake news, you are the enemy of the people.

It is now the Gulf of America, officially.

Yes.

And you got heat

over that?

I did, but I was just trying to save a snowing in Florida, but it changed.

Is it still called Florida?

I'm

just asking.

For now.

Okay.

So if a TV station gives you crap on your page, do you ban them or do you let that sit?

I let it sit for a couple hours because people from my page will comment and tell them that they suck.

Yeah, I think you want those kind of comments.

And then I ban them after the day or two.

You don't want to drive the engagement of negativity.

Negativity gets clicks.

Keep that in mind, Lane.

A little advice from old Rusty.

Lane from Midwest Weather is joining us here in just a few minutes.

I want to know what in the heck happened with January and at some point before we finish up at 10 o'clock, what February is going to look like.

Yeah, we, we want a forecast for our big party on February 8th.

February

8th, yeah.

Next weekend.

Yeah.

Winter Bach Fest.

Metallica's Nothing Else Matters is on the way.

It's Metallica and Rock When I Wait with Nothing Else Matters.

Hey Russ.

I know typically it's a top five Tuesday.

Can I hit you with a quick top five?

Sure.

So...

A study on band t-shirts have found that the highest average resale value of five different bands that we play on the station.

Okay.

And Metallica was not one of them, even in the top ten.

They're not in the top ten?

They're not in the top ten.

So, name five of the bands that we play in regular rotation on Rock 108 that have the highest resale value of the t-shirts that came out originally that are being sold on like marketplace sites like in eBay and stuff like that.

ACDC?

No.

Not on the list.

Not on the list.

Not even in the top 10.

Really?

Are they classic bands or new bands?

I would say classic.

Zeppelin.

Not Zeppelin.

Holy crap.

Classic bands.

Slayer.

You wish it would slayer.

No, that would be so cool.

No, no slayer because the slayer t-shirts got all ripped up in the mosh pit

Well, it'd be for some but it wasn't the didn't he

had a Metallica and they had an AC DC shirt, okay?

And Stuart wore the winger t-shirt poison not poison

But okay motley crew

nope,

but we're talking

an 80s band.

We're talking I can tell by your raised eyebrow.

There is there's one 80s band the rest of them are in the 90s

Good lord.

Yeah, we play we play all of these bands very often very often.

Yeah

I wish I had a playlist in front

of

me Lane what you think I'm putting over to Lane Engels Shaw Well, it's Pantera from

Pantera.

That's a great guess

Pantera is a good guess not on the list.

Holy crap.

Yeah

These are bands that have excellent resale value.

The average resale value for the t-shirts.

The top one is $279 on average per shirt.

A vintage shirt.

Keep

going, Lane's googling it.

Oh, what?

I can see his thumbs moving over

there.

ACDC, not Metallica.

Not Metallica.

An 80s band who were huge in the 80s.

That's that's And

even

disturbed disturbed is not on the

list.

How about grave

core?

Actually number one with a bullet.

No You ready

you want you you want to

hint yeah, give me a hint one of them is the lead singer will drink wine on stage Tool no, no, that's good.

That's good winery.

No think the other guy

No, not Volbeat.

Oh, I was gonna go Volbeat.

No, not Volbeat.

Nineties.

Pearl Jam.

Oh, for God's sakes.

Pearl Jam at five.

All right.

Why?

$171 for a Pearl Jam shirt that gets resold like as a vintage

shirt.

Is that for any?

Pearl Jam shirt.

It's just the average right now.

The average is $170.

So working off of Pearl Jam being at five of bands that we play with a resale value, who else is on that list?

Lane.

What you thinking?

His Google hasn't returned

results

yet, I

guess.

Bullet for my Valentine.

Bullet for my Valentine would be nice, not on the list.

Now he does bands and not tool.

Someone said Def Leppard.

Def Leppard, also a good guess, but not it.

No.

The 80s band.

This is one that you have interacted with.

They smoked in your studio.

Oh, Guns N' Roses.

Ding, ding, ding.

Wow,

yeah.

$188 for a Guns N' Roses vintage

t-shirt.

Yeah, what's his name with the top hat wouldn't not

smoke?

How about a band from California that might know something about.

Onto the bridge.

Ding, ding, ding.

Who are they?

Red Hot Chili Peppers!

$241 on average.

People ask why we play Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Yeah, that's still not number one.

Number one is a different band.

Think a three-piece.

A three-piece.

Two of them are three pieces that you haven't hit yet.

A three-piece band.

A ZZ Top.

No, not a 90s band.

Oh, 90s band.

A three-piece 90s band.

Let's see if anybody's shooting me messages.

People probably screaming at me.

Nirvana.

Yep, number one.

$279 for a vintage Nirvana shirt.

One.

Thank you, Mike Shield.

Long sleeve Nirvana shirt from the in utero tour sold for two

grand.

Oh my God.

Yeah.

And Wendy Blair, thank you.

They both, they both were yelling at me.

Nice.

Guns N' Roses from Trisha, but we already got that one.

Yep.

But we haven't gotten the three-piece yet.

The other three-piece, yeah.

What's the three-piece

we got?

Nirvana.

They were a three-piece?

Yes, on stage they were a four-piece.

Okay.

That's when you added Pat Smear.

Pat Smear, right?

He didn't record with them?

I'm sure he did, but they were officially a three-piece.

Okay, yeah.

I did not know that.

Who's the other three-piece?

They're still active today.

Out of California, the Bay Area.

Do you have the time to listen to me wine?

Do you have the time to listen to me wine?

Oh, Green Day.

There you go.

Green Day.

Nice work.

So yeah, in that order, Pearl Jam, these are bands that we play with the highest resale value on t-shirts.

Who wants a Green Day shirt?

Somebody who loves Green Day.

Oh

my god.

Ned.

Ned likes Green Day.

That's true.

Although he joined him on the American idiot tour pearl jam at 171 green day 186 guns and roses 188 Average resale value for vintage t-shirts red hot chili peppers 241 279 for nirvana others that were on the list earth wind and fire Cool, I'd wear that outcast

Yeah, Paul McCartney now Kanye West Yes, and a grateful dead shirt has the highest valued shirt that sold for $2,750 dead will always be one that has a 1994 has a black panther on the front So if you have it laying in your closet somewhere hold on to it a lot of California bands.

Yeah

Speaking of California, mr. Weather guy, are you aware of a thing called micro climates?

kind of but

California, especially Southern California, where I lived, has microclimates.

And while you don't think weather forecasting is important in Southern California, because it's sunny and 70 every day, they have these microclimates, just very small areas where the weather will be completely different than the areas around it.

And the weather people, like all the TV stations have, your microclimate weather forecast, it's a very challenging weather situation that people don't know about.

And they also have a lot of valleys, too.

Correct.

That's

part of the reason.

A lot of valleys.

Is that what happened in our January here with it being cold but not a lot of snow?

Did we have some sort of microclimate around here that I don't know about?

Lane, what do you think?

It seemed like it, but the thing is, it's like, all month we had an Arctic high that was over the Midwest.

So let's push the storm track or the jet stream much further south, south enough to get

snow along the Gulf Coast.

So most of Midwest was robbed from snow this month, except Kansas and Missouri, which was that one storm that had a foot of snow at the beginning of the month.

So what's February going to look like for us?

Especially next week, we have the Rock 108 Millstream Brewing Company, the huge outdoor, yes, outdoor and indoor buckfest.

Well, the pattern looks much

most more favorable for snow than it did in December and January.

Especially sitting next week, but there's also one Friday to watch as well, but it looks pretty small right now.

It won't be as cold though, February, as in January.

I don't think we're gonna get some negative 30s wind chills, any of that stuff anymore.

But definitely- You said that that's not happening.

Yeah, I don't think it's gonna happen anymore.

Nice.

Yeah, I googled the forecast, and the googled forecast says Hartman-Cloudy 35.

That far

out already.

Does that know if oh weather app right?

Oh, kind of a weather.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, well Disgusted yeah, yeah Thing is the eighth is so far out like some models will have teens for highs others gonna have 40s for highs It's independent if you can get snow next week at all.

I mean next Wednesday through Saturday is There's gonna be a trough that's moving to the West

Let's inject inject into the planes in the middle of next week But from there who knows what's gonna happen, but this should be a winter storm with that It could be north of us could be salt could be here Wow, so we have the potential for snowstorm

next Saturday later next week.

Yes Yeah, we're gonna have to find out when hmm.

Good thing.

We have a covered patio that's heated.

Yeah, did the goats help us at all?

The goats.

Yeah, they're goats

He doesn't know about the goats.

We'll have to tell him more about the goats and play the new see their walls come down coming up See their walls come down on the rock 108 morning show Brian Marshall, Russ and Lane from Midwest weather joining us here today.

And what

high

school?

North Lynn.

Thank you.

I was gonna say a couple of people had chimed in during our last top five segment about vintage t-shirts and I thought these were great guesses too.

Steve and Cedar Falls

said Ozzy's shirt.

Oh, why didn't I think of Ozzy?

That would be a great guess, but it would have been wrong.

Yeah, it wasn't in the top 10.

Bob and Amanda had said Alice in Chains.

And I think because of the band ending so early, those vintage shirts, that's a great guess, too.

But what have been wrong?

Wasn't in the top 10.

Wow.

Isn't that wild?

Yeah, that's wild.

So I'd like to see more of this list and see how much further down we go.

So we were talking weather with Lane from Midwest Weather on Facebook.

Where's the place that they can find it?

Well, I'm on Facebook as Minus Weather, but I'm also on Instagram too, if you have Instagram.

What is it?

Because of what you do, is it easier to do it on Facebook?

Is it easier to do it on Instagram?

What's easier for

you?

Well, Facebook, and I have this better reach on there too.

It's like Instagram.

Yeah, no kidding.

How

many followers do you have on Facebook?

I'm close to 130,000.

Can we

steal some?

How do we get some of his followers?

You can buy some.

You can buy some, he says.

Bastard.

All he has to say is listen to Rock108.

Can we get you to do that?

All right.

Oh, yeah.

Listen to Rock108.

There we go.

And I heard there's a bunch of people at school today listening too.

Yeah, I don't want to go back to school now.

Do you have to go back to school?

Yeah.

It's funny that your art teacher I worked with when I was doing the unsigned and unleashed program decade ago, you know, and that

He was in the band Lost Nation.

Yeah, it's pretty cool.

I'm seeing him doing all right at school, but also being a middleman.

Does he still

look like a filthy rock star?

He never really did.

Really?

He was always kind of clean cut.

He is right now still, but yeah, he's a teacher though.

He can't, you

know.

Yeah, he had to remember he's molding the minds like lanes

of the next

generation.

Right.

You can't have him come out there and say, I'm going to play flag down.

Here we go.

Here's the thing with what you're looking at as far as weather Say it one more time February February more snowy.

What you think it's so far what you got?

He's rooting for snow.

I've seen his post.

Yeah, I know he wants

a snowy

pattern.

I do a lot of people is eager to get a lot of snow The thing is we need the phasing to take place in the plains in the mountain west The tech if it's gonna happen for the east we won't get a lot of snow in February

But some areas will get a lot of snow in February, but not everyone in the Midwest will.

So, like, for instance, shoot happens might only get a few inches in February, but St.

Paul could do, you know, a foot and a half.

It's like, it's gonna be like, there's gonna be a storm track through the Midwest, but it's gonna, it won't move too much through the month.

So where it sets up, it's probably the most snow's gonna happen.

So we're a couple of days out.

Where's it setting up?

Well.

Do we have to pay for this?

Yeah.

Why

are you hesitant?

Well, because it's been very stubborn of a winner pattern.

So it's kind of scary to So I'm asking you

something.

I'm asking you something that

hasn't

really set up yet.

Yeah,

you can't answer it

next week

it

was set up over the Midwest but after that

It should still sit in the Midwest.

It won't be in the south anymore.

So some areas will see rain in February probably we might see rain who knows we might see a lot of snow

I mean, that's the thing is if you're looking if I'm telling you well, what are we gonna get on February the 27th?

You can't tell me that probably

a tornado probably.

Yeah.

Oh, thanks But there is a sweet spot for you and I asked you this before what is the sweet spot for you forecasting not only where the weather is gonna go, but how much

well about seven eight days out when I start to

look at the pattern for maybe a winter storm or if it's summer time for a three-weather pattern.

But about 48 hours out, that's when I like to release my first Sunfall forecast or three-weather forecast.

Because that's when it won't change too much.

But it might change a little bit.

But at least it'll be mostly accurate.

And I hope so.

Just remember P1 Nation, this kid's in high school still.

What are you doing?

Here I am sitting behind a microphone.

Can I tell you what the trough is going to do with the specs on the rotary girder?

Nope, I can't.

Did you get all that, Russ?

I got it.

Yeah.

Lane, thank you so much for coming back in and hanging out with us here today.

Yeah, thank you again.

Here's hoping that, I don't know, I'm opposite.

I don't know if I want as much snow, but I don't want the cold either.

So whatever.

Also, it won't be super cold February so I like hearing that

it will be super cold.

It won't be super cool.

That's

good.

I don't like those super

cool and shout out to your school

North Lynn again

North Lynn.

Yeah, North Lynn go North Lynn.

What's what's the mascot?

Lynx the Lynx a

cat, right?

Oh,

that's cool.

Could you change it to something weather-based like the North Lynn tornadoes?

Cyclones the

Northland links.

I'll put the pay for that though.

That's right Lane.

Thanks so much for being here Russ is gonna have 57 minutes commercial free including Allison chains and the new breaking Benjamin