A historically cold 1980 Christmas with Storm Field!

It's a little chilly on this Christmas morning, but nothing like Dec. 25, 1980. We sent Storm Field out into the bitter cold that day to interview shivering New Yorkers. Merry Christmas from all of us at Channel 7 and the Eyewitness News Vault.
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[@Mhel2023]

I was 15. All the good newscasters. God I miss my family

[@srpdesigns]

Childhood memories ,even though I lived in CT we always watched NY News...Such a great feeling to see these broadcast again .

[@nycdweller]

John Johnson is a NYC legend

[@alfonsogreen2722]

I watched Storm Field n his father Frank as a kid. Storm was young n I was 2 years old. Also John Johnson was great 2

[@TigsNY]

I may be young, but I used to watch Storm Field on Channel 9 when I was a little girl. When I look at this archived newscast, which was 17 years before I was born, I never knew that he was a New York heartthrob back in his Channel 7 days.

[@SoothingSounds-kq6yg]

I was 18, and wow, do I remember that Christmas! And just over 2 years later I would meet my future wife, and we would marry a few after that. We are still happily married today.

[@crgray1979]

A good name for weatherman storm field

[@JG-pj3bg]

I was eleven years old and I remember when the news looked like this

[@missylou82]

I wasn’t born yet. Two years later, I’ll have been born in August. I like seeing old news.

[@jv-ep2tc]

i had a mad crush on him while living in NY. he announced that he was appearing at some event on a SAturday and I went to Central Park and found the "tent" where the thing took place. He caught my eye and came right up to me. I was so gobsmacked I couldn't even look at him. I think I crawled away.

[@VideoFanatic02]

I grew up on Long Island and l remember all of these news anchors. Brings back good memories.

[@caroldente9635]

Had a major crush on storm!

[@samuelgriffin4167]

We had real cold weather in New York as far as I can remember

[@PungiFungi]

Storm did a promo for a local YMCA and they aired it several times. He was sitting poolside in a t shirt and a black speedo bikinis. Yowsers! Dream came true!

[@MelodyMeanFace]

I know what you mean, I remember a medical report he did about water therapy for seniors, standing in the pool with just a swimsuit, what a babe! Great hair too.

[@vinniechudam1835]

Reporter has the perfect name: Storm

[@MelodyMeanFace]

He was so hot, in the 70s he had 2 contests during his radio forecasts giving away personalized umbrellas first & then scarves later (which he called mufflers) to listeners who sent in postcards. First I won an umbrella, then pretended to be someone else & won a scarf. Once I was in the middle of a one-nighter in Manhattan & realized I had left my Storm Field Umbrella in the club & i jumped out of bed (before we were done!) & rushed back to the club which had just closed, but i kept banging on the door until they opened up & gave my umbrella back. "Between love and madness lies obsession" -Calvin Klein

[@JoseTwitterFan]

And then NYC experienced its hottest Christmas two years later.

[@bigwillietheb]

let's see Christmas of 1980 where I live , here in Florida my hometown of Plant City I just looked at a history almanac & the recorded tempature was 48 for the low & 68 for the high so no it was not bad like it was in NYC , but I was 6 years & I thought it was cold , but the coldest Christmas I can remember here was Christmas day 1983 , it was about 37 for the high & 24 for the low , it used to get cold here in the 80's when i was a kid

[@debrabaron6495]

Wow. Where did the time go?

[@seanh514]

I remember this day. I was 8 years old. I woke up thinking about John Lennon, who had just passed away. The game of Simon that was gifted to me. And I remember the near-zero weather and how incredibly cold that was. It's usually within a few degrees of freezing on a late December morning. Often warmer.

[@user-er3ri6sc3j]

I was in alphabet city in NYCHA apartment. I was 9 years old but never heard of john Lennon. It was star wars for me.

[@Gragerardo]

❤

[@VideoFanatic02]

Yeah l was almost 9 years old when this aired.

[@pdottie212fu]

Too much cold, my friend

[@lordiluv]

What ever happened to Storm Field? He was great

[@chickentwisties2298]

He's retired now 😉

[@JoshMaxPower]

Christmas 1980 was particularly cold in NYC because John Lennon was killed on Dec. 8.

[@skullandbones1832]

💚

[@gloriamolinacervantes1222]

R.I.P. Loved to watch you..

[@TigsNY]

Storm Field is still alive, his father Dr. Frank Field passed away last week.

[@yell0wberry]

Wow, John Johnson, in rare form, I had no idea that his wife cheated on him with Donald Trump. My condolences to Storm Field on the loss of his father Frank, as of the posting of my comments.

[@GenerallyGeneralLee]

Years later I saw a video that he had modified an old Mercedes to run on vegetable oil & his local fast food joints would save their used cooking oil for him. If you were driving behind his car the exhaust would smell delicious. Pretty clever guy, if i remember correctly he had studied dermatology not even meteorology.

[@Americanmikey_]

Storm is hot!

[@dv7548]

I wonder how anyone could get subscribe for more of these oldies news broadcast. ABC are you listening?

[@peterraymond8470]

I did a double take before I realized that was his name: Storm Field. I guess with me being a New England boy coupled with the fact that for whatever reason [ some say climate change ] weather has much greater extremes than it used to -1 Degrees sounds cold for sure, but not ridiculously cold. No one mentioned the wind chill factor, but maybe that too is strictly a New England thing.

[@Scalihoo]

What ever happened to ABC, it used to ge great ?

[@pandoragadson9002]

I used to watch it when Roger and Bill were there. I watch fox 5 now.

[@TMoody]

Just a few days before this John Lennon was shot on that same street.

[@q21a27]

Is Ryan Field related to Storm/Frank Field?

[@kmart3697]

Achully frank field and storm field are father and son

[@bubblegumgangster4949]

1:18 Oh I think the weather is very very bad but I think not so bad HMMMM 🤔

[@ericsamuelson5656]

Gil Hodges sounded alot like Ernie Anderson

[@XF990]

John was cute 😩

[@retroguy1976]

im staying in i think i did as a kid in 1980 I was 4 that year

[@XF990]

The guy @ 1:12 is cute too

[@mat2000100]

Who the hell names their kid "Storm"?

[@Geodxn]

who cares! he was gorgeous!!

[@tyrese3745]

Dr. Frank Field, of course, and his wife.

[@chickentwisties2298]

That's his nickname his real name is Elliot David Field