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

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  Speaker 1: Well, I feel so bad for Ray Stajic right now.
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  Speaker 1: Ray Stajic, WOR Weather Channel meteorologist. And I feel bad
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  Speaker 1: because I thought he did a really nice job on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: He's one of the best meteorologists in the country. And
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  Speaker 1: he was even keeled and level-headed about the storm that
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  Speaker 1: was going to hit. And I remember you saying it
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  Speaker 1: was going to be bad along the shorelines, maybe not
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  Speaker 1: so bad everywhere else. But Curtis doesn't see it that way.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm going to let him take over because, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry for what's going to happen now.
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  Speaker 2: Larry, I appreciate that. But I came in here thinking,
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  Speaker 2: all right, damn good job on that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so, too.
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  Speaker 2: So, Curtis, let's go.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Ray, it would figure weather guys are together forever. Larry,
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  Speaker 3: having been the weather forecaster in San Diego, boy, that
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  Speaker 3: was a tough job, Larry. And you, Ray, when you
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  Speaker 3: use that weather forecasting terminology back and forth that none
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  Speaker 3: of us seem to understand. So I'm listening to you
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  Speaker 3: and the buildup to the nor'easter. And when all was
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  Speaker 3: said and done, two days of getting pounded, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: saying to myself, our guy, Ray Stajic, he was the
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  Speaker 3: weather guy on Quaaludes. I mean, he was like, laid back, cool, calm,
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  Speaker 3: and collected. Don't worry about it. Meantime, there are people
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  Speaker 3: in Howard Beach, Hamilton Beach, the Rockaways. This is worse
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  Speaker 3: than Superstorm Sandy.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I didn't say that.
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  Speaker 3: No, you didn't, but they did.
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  Speaker 1: So they must be right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there might be isolated areas where the water came
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  Speaker 2: up as high as Sandy. I did hear a couple
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  Speaker 2: of reports of that, but when you're talking widespread overall,
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  Speaker 2: and you ended up being divided by, hey, how did
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  Speaker 2: we do overall? And overall, I would think that, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there were impacts, and certainly I'd say minor to moderate
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  Speaker 2: impacts would probably fit into right what we're saying on Friday. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: certainly there's always areas that get a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: than maybe the whole world sees in isolated spots. But
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  Speaker 2: one or three inches of rain, that about worked out
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  Speaker 2: almost three inches at Central Park. But there were some
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  Speaker 2: higher totals on Long Island where we expected four or
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  Speaker 2: five inches. But it came over the course of a
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  Speaker 2: couple of days. Gusty winds. Did everyone gust a month
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  Speaker 2: to a point 81 miles per hour?
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  Speaker 3: But that was.
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  Speaker 2: at elevation. So there was a little elevation where that
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  Speaker 2: was recorded too. So down at the surface might not
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  Speaker 2: have been realized as quite that strong, but again, that's
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  Speaker 2: an isolated wind gust. And there's another one, I think
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  Speaker 2: near 74 miles per hour, but, um, spotty power outages.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know who Curtis is listening to, but
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  Speaker 2: that sounds like pretty darn good forecast.
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  Speaker 1: It was an excellent forecast, an excellent forecast.
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  Speaker 3: It really was.
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  Speaker 1: It's the problem is that Curtis and just about everybody else,
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  Speaker 1: all they watch is the news and they see all
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  Speaker 1: of the worst areas and only the worst areas where
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  Speaker 1: the majority of the areas like myself and like Natalie,
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  Speaker 1: we were going, we were outside looking and sometimes it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't raining going. I thought it was supposed to rain
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  Speaker 1: all day and it was nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Right. I think if there's one thing, at least for me,
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  Speaker 2: when I was watching Radar on Saturday, I was saying,
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  Speaker 2: I thought maybe the rain shield would have been a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more filled in, a little more persistent than
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  Speaker 2: it was. But still, quite a bit of rain, which
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  Speaker 2: we did need.
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  Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question, Ray. You spend all
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  Speaker 3: of your day whiling away, whiling away the hours watching
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  Speaker 3: Radar all day. Oh, my God. I can't imagine anything
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  Speaker 3: more boring watching a radar screen all day.
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  Speaker 2: That was in between commercials of the three football games
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  Speaker 2: I was watching.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what. Give us some good news.
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  Speaker 1: We have clearer skies ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we get past today. Still kind of yucky out
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  Speaker 2: there today. But a lot of the rain is north
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  Speaker 2: as you go up the Hudson Valley and through Orange
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  Speaker 2: County and Westchester County. That's all going west and north.
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  Speaker 2: We've got some leftover showers. Probably going to stay a
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  Speaker 2: little cloudy, breezy, and cool today. Still in the 60s,
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  Speaker 2: probably even the low to mid-60s. And then by Tuesday
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  Speaker 2: and Wednesday as we wrap up the month, absolutely gorgeous.
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  Speaker 2: Low to mid-70s, sunshine, overnight lows in the 50s. Might
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  Speaker 2: even be near 80 with sunshine for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the week. I don't see another rain chance in here
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  Speaker 2: until later in the weekend as we get into the
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  Speaker 2: first few days of October. The only one thing I
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  Speaker 2: did want to say, you know, nor'easter, let's just be
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  Speaker 2: thankful it wasn't the middle of winter and this wasn't
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  Speaker 2: a snow event because we'd be probably talking about a
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  Speaker 2: whole different ball of wax when you figure.
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  Speaker 3: Let me alert you that there was some good news
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  Speaker 3: in the city. None of the sewer guys were down
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  Speaker 3: in the subterranean underground because they would have all drowned.
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  Speaker 3: Two days of steady rain.
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  Speaker 2: More importantly, did you save the beagles?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, so you're sticking me here, Ray. The state police
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  Speaker 3: prevented me from rescuing the beagles.
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  Speaker 2: So, ah, touche.
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  Speaker 3: Touche.
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  Speaker 2: I really had no idea.
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  Speaker 3: Touche, Ray.
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  Speaker 2: You're welcome.
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  Speaker 1: Well, nice job, Ray. I think you did a great
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  Speaker 1: job in forecasting this. So thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: telling us what was going to happen last week. And
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  Speaker 1: I apologize, as always, for Curtis. Ray Stajic, WOR Weather
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  Speaker 1: Channel meteorologist.