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Ray Stagich, WOR Weather Channel Meteorologist Interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Is it going to hit or is it going to hit?
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  Speaker 1: And if it does hit, how hard? If you've been
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: listening to the local meteorologists, they've been waffling on this.
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  Speaker 2: But luckily, we have the best.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: And he can give us a definitive if it's going
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  Speaker 1: to hit or it's not going to hit.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I heard that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you're supposed to turn them down for the intro.
• 0:24
  Speaker 4: W.O.R.
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  Speaker 1: Meteorologist Ray Stajic.
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  Speaker 2: Ray, so what's going to happen this weekend with this Nor'easter?
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  Speaker 3: You want the truth? Or do you want me to waffle?
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  Speaker 2: No, I want the truth.
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  Speaker 3: Like everybody else.
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  Speaker 5: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: What is this, A Few Good Men?
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  Speaker 5: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: You can't handle the truth.
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  Speaker 1: You can't handle the truth.
• 0:50
  Speaker 3: Did you order the.
• 0:56
  Speaker 3: It's like any other storm. We're not new to these, right?
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  Speaker 5: And when we're... It's a Wednesday. There's three, four days out.
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  Speaker 5: There's a lot of variability, right? So when you say hit,
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  Speaker 5: I think direct impact. So I think wins... Tropical storm force,
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  Speaker 5: gale force winds, I think rain, heavy rain, flooding, and
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  Speaker 5: all that.
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  Speaker 3: That is the least likely scenario.
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  Speaker 5: Now, where there will be impacts right now, I think
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  Speaker 5: it's just about a given along the coast. Now, we're
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  Speaker 5: already starting to see some advisories come up for coastal flooding.
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  Speaker 5: There's gale warnings and high surf advisories. We're probably going
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  Speaker 5: to see more coastal flood watches, warnings.
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  Speaker 3: Go up.
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  Speaker 5: All the way down the coast, all the way up
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  Speaker 5: the coast into New England. That's all going to start
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  Speaker 5: going downhill as we look ahead toward tomorrow, Friday, Saturday,
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  Speaker 5: maybe even Sunday. Now, we're talking about rain. It looks
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  Speaker 5: like we're going to escape the heaviest of the rain.
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  Speaker 5: That's if you want the answer today, which I have
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  Speaker 5: the right to change tomorrow and then the day after that.
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  Speaker 5: But I think we're going to be on the edge
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  Speaker 5: of where the rain.
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  Speaker 3: Showers will be.
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  Speaker 5: So I don't think there's a threat from flooding and
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  Speaker 5: I don't think there's a threat. From strong winds, I
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  Speaker 5: don't know if we'll make it to advisory criteria winds either,
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  Speaker 5: although it's starting to gust pretty good out there right now, 20,
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  Speaker 5: 30 miles per hour, because of this tight pressure gradient
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  Speaker 5: between the high and the developing low to the south.
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  Speaker 5: So direct hit, least likely scenario. You're probably hearing about
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  Speaker 5: this benchmark latitude-longitude line thing that we use in the wintertime.
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  Speaker 5: That's a point where the center has to go to
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  Speaker 5: have the greatest impacts here in the wintertime. For a
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  Speaker 5: heavy snow event, it looks like the center low goes
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  Speaker 5: to the east of that. So we'd be further away
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  Speaker 5: from the bigger impacts, even the rainfall at this time. Now,
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  Speaker 5: yesterday was a completely different scenario. The European model had
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  Speaker 5: it coming right in and given us maybe some bigger impacts.
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  Speaker 5: But eastern New England could see some heavier rain and
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  Speaker 5: gale force winds potentially getting the tropical storm force now.
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  Speaker 5: It's going to get quite gusty, I think, especially eastern
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  Speaker 5: Long Island, so there could be some spotty power outages.
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  Speaker 5: But a direct hit, if you asked me to give
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  Speaker 5: you that answer today, I would say no to very unlikely.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Curtis, have you ever noticed that when meteorologists don't
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  Speaker 1: know what's going to happen, they use a lot of words?
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  Speaker 2: They'll talk for a long time. Like politicians. Did you
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  Speaker 2: ever think, Ed, of getting involved in politics? Boy, what
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  Speaker 2: a word salad that was.
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  Speaker 5: I could dance.
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  Speaker 4: With the best of them. But I need your help.
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  Speaker 4: I need you to be my divining rod. As everybody knows,
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  Speaker 4: I do not have a driver's license. I must head
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  Speaker 4: up Friday night to Marshall, New York. That's like 18
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  Speaker 4: minutes south of Utica, New York. To close the biggest
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  Speaker 4: beagle factory in the world. 16,000 beagles we want to
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  Speaker 4: liberate Saturday. Am I going to be able to get
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  Speaker 4: up there? Because I may have to just hitchhike.
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  Speaker 3: No, you'll be fine. What are you, walking?
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  Speaker 4: I'm getting there one way or the other to save
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  Speaker 4: those beagles.
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  Speaker 3: You should be fine. You should be fine.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that makes me feel so much better.
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  Speaker 3: But I could change my mind tomorrow. Exactly. Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: How come when I ask you about the question about
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  Speaker 1: the forecast, I got a 5,000-word essay. He asked you
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  Speaker 1: a question about the– a simple question about the rain
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  Speaker 1: when he goes up.
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  Speaker 2: You said you'll be fine. So what– Go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: You know, the relationship with Curtis is still a little new.
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  Speaker 5: Just wait a couple, wait till the winter.
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  Speaker 3: He's done.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He hasn't been through blizzards with us yet. You haven't
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  Speaker 3: experienced that word salad. Maybe, maybe not. An inch to
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  Speaker 3: maybe 20.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the inch to 20. That's what I love. You
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  Speaker 2: can always tell.
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  Speaker 3: It happens.
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  Speaker 1: You can always tell by Ray's tone if it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be bad or not.
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  Speaker 2: The bottom line is his tone. I'm learning.
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  Speaker 1: I'm learning now. Right now, this is going to be bad.
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  Speaker 1: That's me saying that I know that you don't like
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  Speaker 1: to make commitments. So I'm saying that from what you're saying,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't sound that bad. You're the pro because, Larry,
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  Speaker 1: you've been the weather guy. I'm the rookie here, so
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  Speaker 1: he's treating me like a rookie.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, wait, wait, wait. Weather guy in San Diego? Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if we call that.
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  Speaker 3: A weather guy. I mean, Curtis, you could do that.
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  Speaker 3: Every day.
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  Speaker 2: Every day.