The Weather Channel July 1992

Footage from The Weather Channel, July 10, 1992. Features longtime on-camera meteorologists Bruce Edwards, Jim Cantore, Cheryl Lemke, and Marshall Seese.

[@blightedgrounds]

TV would be so much cooler if it was all like this.

[@ericseal9027]

I thought that Cheryl Lemke, was one of the prettiest weather girls, of the 80's and 90's.

[@fornitegood122jr6]

Sure does

[@ILoveOldTWC]

28th anniversary of when this clip aired. That was Friday, July 10, 1992. Today is Friday, July 10, 2020. 28-year calendar cycle. And a very similar summer weather weather shaping up, muggy, hot and sunny, with few showers or storms, just as it did 28 years ago for the south.

[@Albanynyer84]

Things don’t change!

[@SCREAMINGinCAPS]

1992 was a cold summer!

[@davidcolantuono3622]

I miss *The Weather Channel* from the 1990s. This was the *REAL* Weather Channel. I don't know what it is now. I guess it's a mere shell of its former self. While I'm more obsessed with the 1980s because that was most of my childhood, TWC was the highlight of the 1990s for me. I mentioned before that, although this channel began in 1982, I never got into it until 1991.

[@JWLJN]

Are you living my life? LoL, seriously, while the ‘80s are my time early ‘90s Weather Channel is complete nostalgia for me.

[@zoosyo03]

I remember this one on TV

[@KJCMuzique]

0:05 “Inside Out” - Chick Corea Elektric Band 4:20 “Wherever You Are” - Tom Borton 8:52 “Stolen Lover #4” - Michael Paulo 11:30 “Art of Spirit Bending” - Richard Burmer 14:44 “Houston” - David Benoit 16:28 “Watercolors” - Tom Scott 21:29 “Amazon Waltz” - Patrick O’Hearn 25:51 “Wherever You Are” - Tom Borton 30:37 “Getting There Is The Fun” - Mark Sloniker 41:31 “Valencia” - David Lanz 45:30 “Stolen Lover#4” - Michael Paulo 50:44 “New West” - Peter Buffett 1:00:07 “Move Like A Dancer” - Barry Coates & The Hats 1:16:51 “White Water” - Lee Ritenour 1:20:46 “Looking For A Way” - Tom Borton 1:30:32 “Speaking Without Words” - Mark Sloniker 1:33:19 “Island Blue” - Bob Thompson 1:47:16 “Queen’s Highway” - Max Groove 1:50:46 “Oasis” - Eric Marienthal Some songs are played more than once.

[@spoopyidk]

The world has lots its soul. From 2001, it was all downhill.

[@ILoveOldTWC]

I like the Orlando backdrop - the golf course and golf clubs.

[@drummingdanny84]

So did I. The Disney stuff was pretty cool, too.

[@stantonrogers]

We went to Orlando, FL last summer!!

[@ILoveOldTWC]

@@drummingdanny84 An alligator on it would've made it more complete. 🤣🤣🐊🐊

[@burgundyyears]

Thanks for posting this - this was the pattern that dominated the weather of July 1992. Cool to the north - a record cool summer in Michigan, a persistent strong ridge in the south, and raining cats and dogs in between.

[@burgundyyears]

Something I didn't realize though is that the 5 day forecast shown in this broadcast wasn't terribly accurate. It predicted 90s up to Chicago by Wednesday (July 15, 1992) and the actual high was 77 in Chicago that day.

[@TravisTev]

1:09:00 Whoa, that's a blast from the past! Never expected to suddenly hear music from a Local Forecast playlist used back in the '80s during '92. It seems like around this time the equipment they used for the Business Travel Forecast and backup LF music was in need of maintenance, as it frequently played with erratic pitch fluctuations, while the regular LF music was fine.

[@publisher73]

This is complete conjecture on my part, but I believe the network switched its primary local forecast music feed to a digital source in September 1990 when it adopted a universal playlist for the local segments, while the BTF and other short interstitial music clips continued to use an analog - and noticeably lower quality - source. Meanwhile, the brief clip of "The Juggler" heard at 1:09 was still in use in the early 90s as the background music for local tips during lawn and garden segments, which were by then airing very infrequently in the spring months.

[@TravisTev]

@@publisher73 You know, I've been thinking the same thing for a while. It seems like they might have used some sort of analog source for the parts you described, perhaps endless-loop tape cartridges like those used in radio stations, and some sort of digital (DAT?) source for the normal LFs. On the LFs I've often noticed drop-outs and occasionally bits of noise which seem digital in nature, whereas the BTF clips would tend to have more analog-sounding defects instead.

[@michaelewing4515]

@@publisher73 I also saw a BTF rarity that the United Airlines theme was heard without the United Airlines sponsor.

[@SanAntonioNews78]

I like the dance the guy is doing in the background at 27:21 lol

[@lizardracer3641]

Jim cantore had hair!

[@fornitegood122jr6]

Yes indeed Jim Cantore has hair and then he shaved his hair

[@donnycarlson7039]

The guy with the mustache he does the weather and have the rugged macho man look at the same time

[@ILoveOldTWC]

One year after this, the Midwest would get hit hard with epic flooding along the Mississippi River. St. Louis, the Quad Cities in Iowa and Illinois, and all up the down were under water.

[@michaelewing6522]

6:28 & 27:34 A very rare Business Travel Forecast with the United Airlines theme and without the United Airlines sponsor

[@drummingdanny84]

Yeah, you’re right. One of the few times that’s happened.

[@millenniumman75]

It's George Gershwin's 1924 "Rhapsody in Blue" - the other way around. United Airlines used a version of the song.

[@cirrenjones9106]

I never seen Marshall Seese wearing his glasses before, looks nice by the way.

[@fornitegood122jr6]

​@HuYoaDaddyhe's cool

[@millenniumman75]

1:20:47 - Tom Borton's "Looking For a Way" !

[@AeroModule]

Anyone know the song that starts at 8:52?

[@brandonmoorman1233]

This aired Late Friday Morning July 10 1992

[@ILoveOldTWC]

And today is Friday July 10, 2020. That 28 year calendar cycle.

[@moisesgonzalez8450]

1992

[@thoreau7]

Before the TWC went woke.