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WOR meteorologist Ray Stagich interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, let's get the latest on the weather from Ray Stagic.
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  Speaker 1: You just heard from them a moment ago. But we
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  Speaker 1: want to get an extended forecast and talk about some specifics,
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  Speaker 1: especially about how much rain we got and how much
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  Speaker 1: rain we're going to get over the next couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: So Ray Stage you get here wo or Weather Channel
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  Speaker 1: meteorologist Ray, you know, I want to get the rain totals.
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  Speaker 1: That's one of the big things, because I know that
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  Speaker 1: they were enormous in some areas. But as I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: I just heard your forecast, and I'm looking ahead on
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  Speaker 1: the forecast that you send, and I see showers over
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  Speaker 1: the next several days. Are we talking about flooding now?
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  Speaker 2: Depends on where you are. I think today will be
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  Speaker 2: the last of the flood risk and most of that
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  Speaker 2: now is out into Suffolk County at Pairfield County, Connecticut,
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  Speaker 2: and as you go up the Hudson Valley still warning
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  Speaker 2: in Putnam County, there's a flash flood warning that's going
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  Speaker 2: to be an effector this morning they've extended. It's also
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  Speaker 2: for northern Westchester County, and then in Long Island or
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  Speaker 2: on Long Island, we've got Suffolk County a flood advisory
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  Speaker 2: till six forty five where there's some heavy rain, and
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  Speaker 2: even into Fairfield County, Connecticut flood warning also into southwestern
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  Speaker 2: New Haven County as well as southern Fairfield County. So
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  Speaker 2: I do think the flood threat is going to be
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  Speaker 2: east in north and should start tapering off today and
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  Speaker 2: then we get into tomorrow the more scattered stuff, and
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  Speaker 2: then Friday maybe some dryer air trying to get back
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  Speaker 2: in here. But some of the totals, as you were mentioning, Larry,
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  Speaker 2: were excessive, and as we said yesterday, you know, war widespread,
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  Speaker 2: but still didn't mean everybody was going to get flooding.
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  Speaker 2: And right around the five boroughs in western Nassau County
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  Speaker 2: we saw I'm going to say, only between about a
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  Speaker 2: half and three quarters of an inch, But you got
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  Speaker 2: into North Jersey around Patterson almost four inches of rain,
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  Speaker 2: four point sixty five in Hackettstown four point one, four Lebanon.
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  Speaker 2: So there was this pocket in North Jersey around presipone
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  Speaker 2: and back on off and toward the north and west
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  Speaker 2: of that and out near places like you know, let's
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  Speaker 2: say Stuartsville where there's three four point sixty five inches
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  Speaker 2: where we had three to four inches of very heavy
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  Speaker 2: rainfall and some leftover flooding there, and also as you
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  Speaker 2: went north, some very heavy rain almost five inches at
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  Speaker 2: cold Spring five point two eight up further north of that,
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  Speaker 2: up near the Shoken Reservoir. But it kind of got
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  Speaker 2: the picture where it rained and we got most of
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  Speaker 2: the rainfall. It rained hard and very hard, and we
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  Speaker 2: have some big time problems with flooding. But a lot
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  Speaker 2: of that's going well north up near the Capitol District
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  Speaker 2: now and out into eastern Long Island and especially into
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  Speaker 2: parts of New England. As we head on through today, we'll.
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  Speaker 3: See now ray again. This is taking on the same
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  Speaker 3: phenomenon we've never really had before. You get drenched, I
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  Speaker 3: mean it comes down in buckets throughout northern New Jersey,
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  Speaker 3: hits your real hard, and then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 3: you think a rainbow is going to appear and it's peace,
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  Speaker 3: love and happiness. Oh no, it's not too bad, and
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  Speaker 3: then all of a sudden an hour later, boom again.
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  Speaker 3: I don't ever remember rain coming down like that before,
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  Speaker 3: where it hits you once real hard, it dissipates, the
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  Speaker 3: sun comes out a little bit, and then all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden comes back for like a second bite.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to get in the summertime, these areas
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  Speaker 2: of low pressure. You don't see that a lot, meaning
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  Speaker 2: an organized area of low pressure, but you can see
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  Speaker 2: it this morning. And what that does the rotation around
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  Speaker 2: you. You kind of get these rounds of rain and thunderstorms,
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  Speaker 2: and the intensity, as you'd mentioned, seems to have been
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  Speaker 2: greater over the past. You know, let's say x amount
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  Speaker 2: of time for the month July, I think New York
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  Speaker 2: City's had I think it's twelve flood warnings issued, and
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a record for any month, for at
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  Speaker 2: least New York City. So the stats something like that.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of heard it was looking researching it this
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  Speaker 2: morning and passing either way. We've had an exceptional number
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  Speaker 2: of flash flood warnings around the city, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: a larger number than we've had in the past of
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  Speaker 2: flood events. Now what that leads to is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: will we have more in the future. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: the big question and maybe something that you're trying to
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  Speaker 2: get at.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not even talking about isolated flooding. I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about and I know you mentioned the areas that normally
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  Speaker 1: flood and of course that's what we're all talking about.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean I'm talking about like river flooding Passaic.
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  Speaker 1: Is the Passaic River, for instance, is that threatened with
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  Speaker 1: this flooding over the next couple of days because of
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  Speaker 1: the rain we've already had.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, parts of the Passaic may become a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more swollen than it are right now. Right now they're
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  Speaker 2: looking at maybe some minor flooding. So over the next
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  Speaker 2: couple of days, it's not going to get any worse.
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  Speaker 2: As I said, the edge of the rainfall, the heaviest
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  Speaker 2: rain is now east of that and going as we'd said,
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  Speaker 2: north northeast of the city and out into New England.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Ray, I want to tell you I'm doing my part.
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  Speaker 3: In New York City, there was a great Creek philosopher
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  Speaker 3: called Diogenes. He would roam the streets of Athens with
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  Speaker 3: a lantern and he would go up to people and say,
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking for one, honest man. Never did find one.
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  Speaker 3: I've walked out with my trusty stickball bat, and I
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  Speaker 3: go to the catch basins the sewers, and if the
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  Speaker 3: stickball bat does not go down to the grate because
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  Speaker 3: of all the silt that's built up all the flotsam
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  Speaker 3: and jetsam. I call the sewer department, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: old ed Norton guy who never answers the phone any
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  Speaker 3: longer because you just get put on hold. And I
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  Speaker 3: keep reporting them because if they don't clean out the
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  Speaker 3: catch basins, and now I'm proving that, Hey, if a
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  Speaker 3: stickball bat can't go down the sewer grating, then that's
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  Speaker 3: backed up. So any accumulation more than an inch, it's
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  Speaker 3: going to back up, and it's going to start flooding
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  Speaker 3: into the nearby sidewalks and eventually go down into the
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  Speaker 3: basements and cause all kinds of chaos. So there are
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  Speaker 3: some answers that a lot of municipal that these and
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  Speaker 3: counties can take, but I just don't see efforts anyone
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  Speaker 3: going to clean out those catch basins.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's a big problem. And the problem
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  Speaker 2: too with a lot of the apartments actually below street
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  Speaker 2: level too, So I don't you can't solve that one, right,
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  Speaker 2: So you got two problems that either could be solved
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  Speaker 2: in one that can't be solved. So we hope that
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  Speaker 2: we stay away from some of these heavier rain events.
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  Speaker 2: We may get back into a little bit wetter weather patterns.
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  Speaker 2: I look ahead late the weekend early next week, is
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  Speaker 2: it going to be as heavy a rain as this
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  Speaker 2: that we're seeing right now? A little too early to say,
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  Speaker 2: but I think after a beautiful Friday, Saturday, and probably
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  Speaker 2: most of Sunday, we could see the showers and thunderstorms
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  Speaker 2: return next week.
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  Speaker 3: That was not good.
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  Speaker 2: I just you know what you should say speaking of philosophers, right,
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  Speaker 2: But you know what, I don't know. I thought you got.
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  Speaker 1: Something to what Curtis was saying.
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  Speaker 3: Yesterday, I saw a sewer like a geyser popping. The
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  Speaker 3: water was coming up, I mean into the air from
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  Speaker 3: the sewer, probably because it couldn't go down. Yeah, yes,
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  Speaker 3: to go somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: And there's times too, whether it's clean but catch basins
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  Speaker 2: or not, that the rain comes down so hard that
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  Speaker 2: the drainage just can't keep up. So we do. And
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  Speaker 2: we have had events like that too. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's not always that things by the municipalities aren't getting
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  Speaker 2: a proper attention. Sometimes it just rains too damn hard.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let me ask him one question about about the
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  Speaker 1: next couple of days, because there was something interesting he
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  Speaker 1: said to you, and that was he was concerned about
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  Speaker 1: the the events next week. But as I'm looking at
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  Speaker 1: at your forecast rain today, rain, tonight, rain, Thursday, all
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  Speaker 1: possible rain again on Sunday, but you seem to be
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  Speaker 1: fairly confident. Well, it says chance of showers on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: No, Well, when you say rain, I think the perspective
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  Speaker 2: is it's basically rain all day, so what it You know,
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  Speaker 2: it says showers, but it's going to be scattered stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So okay, so you're not concerned. So when it starts
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  Speaker 1: raining over the next couple of days, you're not concerned
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  Speaker 1: at all. That until next week.
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  Speaker 2: No, any concern would be most likely today in probably
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  Speaker 2: first half of the day, and then it's just scattered stuff,
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  Speaker 2: you know, more typical thunderstorms, widely scattered Saint Day tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: and then even on Sunday, just a few showers. I
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  Speaker 2: think you end up, especially Thursday and Sunday, the next
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  Speaker 2: other chances of rain, with more hours of dry weather
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  Speaker 2: at any one given point than we will wet. And
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  Speaker 2: then early next week maybe the coverage gets a little
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  Speaker 2: bit better. Ready to get out there and talk about
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  Speaker 2: intensity yet, but it may be a couple of days
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  Speaker 2: of on again, off again. Thunderstorms and rain showers.
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  Speaker 3: Got it well dealing with both. You guys, you know
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  Speaker 3: your weather wonks was the weather guy over in San Diego.
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  Speaker 3: You were matching credentials yesterday. I didn't understand what the
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  Speaker 3: hell you guys would talk about, so I get a
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  Speaker 3: little tension. But I want to bring you back to
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  Speaker 3: a ute. It's just something that everybody can identify with.
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  Speaker 3: There were two things. If it didn't rain, you said,
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  Speaker 3: we got to get Native Indians to do a rain dance.
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  Speaker 3: And then if it rained too much. Don't you remember
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  Speaker 3: we kids? I remember in kindergarten, rain, rain, go away,
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  Speaker 3: Come again another day. Little Curtis wants to play. Come
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  Speaker 3: again another day. Sun's sun out. You stay warm, us
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  Speaker 3: up for all the day. Don't you remember that nursery rhyme?
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  Speaker 2: I do as far as you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, another shot.
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  Speaker 1: You took a shot at Larry yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Now you're taking a shot of beer.
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  Speaker 1: I like your extended listen. I'm not a meteorologist. I
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  Speaker 1: was not trying to match credentials with you. By yes,
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  Speaker 1: it was mon mono, not at all me matching with you.
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  Speaker 1: I used to know Tim Flannery, who was a baseball player.
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  Speaker 1: And he got up and he got his first hit,
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  Speaker 1: and he gets to first base, and Pete Rose is
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  Speaker 1: at first base, and he looks at him and he goes.
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  Speaker 1: He said, Joe says, who the hell are you? And
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  Speaker 1: he said, I'm the guy that's going to break all
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  Speaker 1: your records. And he said, you won't get enough at
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  Speaker 1: bats to break my records. That's how I feel. You
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  Speaker 1: were at first base and I just got the first base.
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  Speaker 3: His Sonny Albany evidentials.
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  Speaker 1: Did you hear him yesterday laboring away about barometer?
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  Speaker 3: That was five years the way? Five?
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  Speaker 1: Really? Did he fail? His fourth year is about happen?
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  Speaker 3: Oh Ray?
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  Speaker 2: There were reasons why we were there longer than we
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  Speaker 2: needed to be.
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  Speaker 1: Day, Oh Race, that might be a sore point. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: Ray Raised Age, a w o R Weather Channel meteorologist,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks a lot of established for any