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A Talk with WKOW's New Chief Meteorologist · Ask The Experts

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  Eight thirteen ten Wiba Madison in the morning, Seawan Praible with you in your
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  twenty seven storm Track forecast from meteorologists Dana Fulton. Mostly cloudy snow developing this
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  evening a high of thirty three, Tonight cloudy, breezy with snow heavy at
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  times, a low of thirty one, and for tomorrow cloudy, windy,
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  moderate snow a high of thirty three. Currently it is I'm looking all around
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  for the current temp. We've got a meteorologist, not just any meteorologist,
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  the new chief meteorologist Wkowchannel twenty seven storm Tracks teams new chief meteorologists Cameron Hopman.
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  Cam, how are you doing this morning? Doing good? Sean?
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  How are you, sir? I'm so excited to talk with you. I'm
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  doing fantastic. And you talk about timing being everything in life, and tonight's
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  your your PREMIEREA are going to be on the four, five, six,
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  and ten twenty seven news and you've got plenty of talk about don't you.
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  Yeah? I do. And you know birth by fire is always the best
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  form birth by snow, I guess from this version of it all. So
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  yeah, it's going to be an exciting first week because not only we got
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  this guy coming tonight into Tuesday and Wednesday morning, but at the end of
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  the week we got another system that could be another potentially significant snowmaker. So
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  it's going to be a fun first week. It's going to be very exciting.
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  Looking forward to seeing you again. You're going to be on weeknights four,
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  five, six, and ten. I remember back of the day it
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  was just five, six and ten. Adding the four o'clock news not too
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  long ago has just been been a great things for folks as well. Cam.
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  Let's talk a little bit about your background. You are a Midwesterner by
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  birth, aren't you. Yes, yeah, from a struggle Land area,
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  and I know that's not always the best thing to stay up here, so
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  understandable, get that. And you know, we had my tail between my
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  legs from last night and everything like that too, so that's fine, but
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  all things considered, Yeah, no, it's great to be back up in
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  this neckloo from the struggle Land area. I've sent the last about twelve thirteen
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  years in central and southern Indiana, so now we're closer to family and that
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  feels good. It feels good to be back here. You know, Cam,
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  one of the really cool things at modern times is social media and other
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  things. And a couple of weeks ago when the big announcement was made and
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  I saw you on with Amber and Caroline and talking with folks about coming to
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  Wisconsin, is you get a little insight into into people's life And you mentioned,
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  of course, I get a chance to be closer to family, and
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  you're bringing family along with you as well, aren't you. Yeah, my
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  wife got married to her back in twenty thirteen, and we have two kiddos,
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  May who's eight months, Rose who's about three, and Hashiltern four in
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  April. In fact, I just dropped them off at daycare for the first
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  time today, so it's been a little bit of we were running to get
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  to daycare before the interviews, so that was all an interesting morning. But
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  yeah, we're kind of we're all settled here. We're just happy to be
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  here. I've already taken Rose fledding twice. She's ever been fledding before.
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  Not much snow in southern Indiana, so it's a nice change of face.
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  I've got to ask you talking this morning with Cameron Hopman, the new twenty
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  seven storm Track chief meteorologist, and of course we think of WKOW Channel twenty
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  seven, the history of just you know that we look back to, you
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  know, Bob Lindmeyer, who is just an absolute legend in this community.
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  John Ziggler. Folks absolutely love John. It's it's it's quite the heritage when
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  it comes to meteorologists at twenty seven. I've got a guess for you when
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  you when you started that conversation with the folks at WKOW, it was probably
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  a pretty cool opportunity. And I'm going to guess obviously ultimately you took the
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  job, but it was it was probably one of those things where you're just
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  like, oh, my goodness, what a what a great fit. This
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  is going to be absolutely and you know, it's an amazing, amazing opportunity.
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  I'm so thrilled to be here. My wife and I have started talking.
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  We started talking about Madison, place we'd love to end up. Uh,
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  probably eight or nine years ago, we were in Westlafia and Indiana,
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  another big ten school town and thinking well, where we'd like to be eventually,
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  and we we could have been in the Midwest, maybe here, maybe
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  there, and Madison kind of came up in the conversation and ever since then
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  it's kind of been in the back of the mind. To finally end up
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  here and to finally be in this awesome community with all of these amazing people
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  is really just kind of a dream come true. So we're thrilled to be
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  here where. We can't wait to embed ourselves in the community anymore, and
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  and and just make this place our home. It already feels like it is.
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  And I'm guessing Bob is looking forward to get a little more time to
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  get back to golfing. I know, obviously Lindmeyer will still will still be
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  around in some effect, but I'm guessing he's probably life Oh real quick camera
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  before we before we head out, a little bit opportunity also for folks to
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  get to know you what you know? What what is mentioned? Of course
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  we all know Bob Lindmeyer loves to golf. What about for you? What
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  was? What's what's kind of your your favorite free time activity? Free time
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  activity? Baseball? Man, that's the end. I'll be all. I
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  can't wait for the Maillard to kick off the season here. I think it's
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  what May amazingly May looking forward to that and honestly just waiting for baseball season
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  begain. I think I gus out this morning pictures and guesses report thirty nine
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  days right, Yes, yes they do. Oh Cav, it's great to
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  have you. I look forward to hearing your reports and seeing on TV again.
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  You're starting tonight for six, four, five, six, and ten
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  starts tonight new Channel twenty seven chief meteorologists. Of course, Dana will be
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  joining us regularly in the morning as always, nothing changes there. Cam.
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  Welcome to Madison, Welcome to Dan County. And yeah, it's gonna be
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  great. We'll see Adam Mallard's game or two this summer for sure. Absolutely
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  thanks Sean Cameron Hotman, new chief meteorologist at WKOW Channel twenty seven. Speaking
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  of the Madison Mallards the North Woods League, they are adding summer softball.
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  We're going to be checking in with Samantha Rubin. She is with the Madison
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  Mallards organization. Samantha has been a guest here before, of course as general
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  manager. Great opportunity now for softball and fast pitch softball, with the details
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  on that next here on Madison the Morning thirteen to ten. WIBA