KCRG TV 9 Meteorologists Visit the Waters Wake-Up Call

Hey, Mike Waters here from the Waters Wake Up Call.

Hey, I actually had some company this morning, Kaio Mara and Joe Winters, fine meteorologist from TV9 KCRG.

In fact, I just seen Joe last Friday shopping.

I

ran into you

on Friday.

That's right.

You had the smiles in every aisle.

Yeah.

And you were?

You had ice?

And I said you had a...

Big single oats, which you showed me.

Well, yeah, I said you're making breakfast.

Well,

you asked if I was having breakfast here for you guys.

And I

said, well, you know, I could bring in my big carton of Quaker Oats and you guys could scoop it out and just

And

you seemed

very happy about

that.

I would have been fine with that.

I didn't see the carton.

But no, you look like a very healthy cart you were putting together.

So your eating patterns have obviously

changed.

Yeah, you saw no bad food in there.

There was like non-fat yogurts.

And yeah, the Quaker Oats and a lot of fruits and a lot of veggies.

Do you

put

anything on your oatmeal?

Oh, yeah.

What do you like?

Oh, I put tons of syrup and chocolate sauce.

Chunks of prime rib.

Wow.

Yeah.

But it's oatmeal, so it's healthy.

I do a little cinnamon.

I do some blueberries, and I do some bananas.

Nice.

And it's really good.

Sounds delicious.

Yeah.

I do blueberries on mine when I do it.

Usually the weather needs to be chilly, like it is now.

Mm-hmm,

chilly.

Oh, Wednesday.

Wednesday, cook

off at the station.

At the station.

Oh.

The chilly is already made.

And it's been in the freezer for about a week.

Yeah?

I'll thaw it out.

And it's a good chili.

Is it really?

Funny we're talking chili and chili recipes.

About a year ago when we were promoting our text line, we said, you know, text us if you got a question or whatever.

And one of the examples was Tex Waters and he'll give you his chili recipe.

The thing is, I never had a chili recipe.

You know, maybe I still should and have a

really

healthy, maybe some low-fat beef and, of course, beans, obviously.

Spices.

Beans are no beans in a chili.

You know, I've always had beans in Chile.

I think when you think Chile, you think beans.

See, I did until Jan said, Jan Ryder, I'm reading how he just said, nope, no beans, Texas

style.

I'm like,

Jan is anti-bean?

She is.

Beans or no

beans.

That might be

your next question.

You'd

really

get people jazzed up here.

See, I was thinking the same thing, Texas.

Beans or no beans.

All right, we'll see how that goes.

And of course, I had to ask Ky O'Mara and Joe Winters my Barbara Walters question.

Although I didn't do, if you were a tree, what kind of a tree?

I did cloud.

What kind of a cloud would you be, Joe?

I

would

be a stratus cloud because it's gray, low hanging, just like my hair.

Yeah.

And it tends to keep our temperatures

cool.

So I would be that stratus cloud coming in and blocking the sunshine.

That's what I would be.

Alright Kai, if you could be any cloud.

You know, I would probably pick

cumulus.

Cumulus?

Yes.

Why?

I'm a very fair person.

I try to avoid a lot of conflict with people.

I like nice days.

My favorite type of weather is actually fall.

And that's the most common cloud type this time of year.

And so fair weather, cumulus kind of goes along with kind of like we had this past Saturday.

So you're kind of right in the

middle of the road, guys.

You're kind of in

the middle of the road.

That's what we're saying.

Yeah.

OK.

Does that also describe what kind of a friend you are?

You know, kind of that fair weather friend that

just floats around.

It's on the mood.

Looks like you're my friend today, but not tomorrow.

Yeah, but not.

Well, I've noticed these are my cold weather friends, because they only come when it's, because it's what, like 30 outside or something.

We were just commenting on that.

And it seems like every time we come to your place, which

By the way, I don't know how you pulled this natural lighting here.

Did you know that we don't have any windows in the weather lab?

Really?

Joe and I have commented on that for years.

So we actually have to use all of our cameras to see what's going on outside.

But you guys have all the equipment to tell you what's outside.

I mean,

I got nothing.

You've got your

eyes.

You've got your eyes on a window

stand.

That's why

I need the window

more than you guys.

Well, not really.

Not really.

Because when I learned forecasting way back when when I went to Madison, they gave us a list of sheet and they said, follow this when you

your forecast.

There's 100 things.

Number one, look out the window.

Number 100, look out the window again.

You gotta know what's happening because you can know everything by looking and you go wait a minute.

Yeah, you won't get any more current than that.

Exactly, especially with radio and there's a lot of canned radio these days, meaning they recorded in advance

and it's not like here and now.

So yeah, I look outside.

I always kind of judge whether it's going to be a good day or not by the Hiawatha Wadatawa right down there.

If

I can see the Hiawatha Wadatawa, I know it's going to be a good day and nothing's going to be too crazy.

It's going to be a Kaio-Mira kind of a day,

kind of a fair weather.

Nothing bad.

If you go online to my biography right now, on Channel 9's website, you'll see that my favorite weather is fall football temperatures of October.

Me too.

Beautiful.

So Ray Jean, by the way, chili with beans, and she uses the classic bush beans.

So

he even has a

type of bean.

Yeah.

That's a big thing when my wife...

She makes baked beans.

The Van Camps versus Bush is a real deal with her.

If I go to the store and I get the wrong one, I'm in trouble.

So we

have Fairweather married to Stormy, basically.

Is that how that

is?

So

she's

isolated Storms.

Yeah.

Most days are good.

Most days are good.

And then all of a sudden it just...

You'll go, oops, I messed up there.

Whoops.

I'm sorry.

I messed that one up.

Sorry, honey.

I messed that one up.

We're gonna do an isolated storm flare-up, but then we're good.

Okay, I want to ask you real quick, and I mean this seriously.

When somebody comes up and says, why are you guys like, wrong all the time?

What do you guys say to that?

That's actually

not very true.

No.

I tell you, I haven't gotten in a really long time.

When I have gotten it, there was one person at HIV once who said, so you just read what they say to you.

And I'll go, who's they?

And what is it?

Because as far as I know, nobody's in the building with me at 3 AM.

Much like nobody's with you at 4 AM.

Right.

So it's like, we kind of produce our own stuff.

But I'll tell you, I basically just try and kindly say, hey, yeah, last storm, we missed a little bit.

But last couple, we've been pretty good.

Well, here's the problem.

When I first started,

People wanted to know, look out the window, is it snowing?

Is it gonna rain?

Is it gonna be sunny?

Is it gonna be cloudy?

Now, no wonder if it's gonna rain, gonna snow.

When's it gonna be heaviest?

What time is it gonna start?

What time is it gonna stop?

What time is it gonna mix?

Much more detailed stuff.

So if you really look at it, no, we do very, very well.

Even if you're looking at the extended forecast, you're saying, boy, you said nine days ago it's gonna rain on Sunday.

But look at that as a trend.

Don't look at that as an exact.

But generally, it's going to give you the trend for what's coming.

So overall, we don't hear that as much as we used to.

Good.

Well, I'm glad about that.

And to Joe's point, if people say something like that and they ask, when do you think it's going to be heaviest?

When do you think it's going to be lightest?

That means they know we have the ability now to do it.

So in a very weird way, it's almost like a compliment.

Oh, you actually think we can tell that?

And sometimes we can.

Sometimes we can.

You know, when you get the right minds working with the right data, you can get a lot of good value out of it.

Who else can tell the future as well as meteorologists?

It's what we do.

And then we always long about March Madness.

We'll say, how's your bracket doing?

You try and predict that stuff.

And you have all that data about all those teams and all the analytics.

and everybody's brackets are busted on the first day and you go, say, get to the future's heart.

Yeah.

It just is.

Kyomara, Joe Winters.

It's always good to have anybody else in here.

It's usually just me and my plastic fork, but it's nice to have a couple of bodies in here.

Look forward to winter, huh?

Lots

of snow

and

all that.

They got

it.

All right.

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