Snowpocalypse 2010: Accuweather’s Jim Kosek Freaks Out

World’s Most Extreme Weatherman: Jim Kosek
By Gillian Reagan (Business Insider, 2/5/2010)

Early this morning, Jim Kosek Accuweather.com weatherman went on another tear during his weather forecast.

Kosek, a kind of Bill O’Reilly for the weather world, got really excited about this weekend’s big storm in Baltimore. “Oh boy, 14-22 inches of snow,” he starts out, quite calmly.

Then comes his verbal storm, screaming lines like:

  • “Our paralyzing, crippling, record-breaking storm comes TA-DAAAAY!”
  • “Road closures, flight cancellations in the hundreds, power outages by the tens of thousands, maybe the hundreds of thousands? Yes.”
  • “14 to 22 inches of SNOOOOOW winding down Saturday afternoon.”
  • “Tertiary problem, yeah I’ve been reading the dictionary, blowing and drifting AAHHH!”
  • “Can I get a one-way ticket to New Orleans? Sun comes back Sunday, Monday. Listen, I love crab cakes but we could replace them with jambalaya.”


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