Thompson Trips, Lezak Zips: Let it Snow but Still Go
KSHB TV weather wonk Gary Lezak’s message to snowbound party hearty types…
“You can get out tonight and on Super Bowl Sunday ,” he says. “The snow will start fallingtoward the end of the game but people will still be able to get around. The big snowstorm won’t hit until Monday. It will start late Sunday and snow through Monday. We’re going to get three or four inches of snow on Monday and I think we could get as many as eigh inches of snow. Snow on top of snow, just like we did at Christmas.”
With one big difference, Lezak notes.
“This time around it’s a little bit warmer, so the roads aren’t as bad.”
Which brings us to today’s snow job…
“I guess my forecast of 18 more inches of snow between February 1st and the end of March has a good chance of happening,” Lezak says. “This is crazy weather – we’re probably going to get three to four inches today, so we’ll be sitting at 27 inches for the season which means we have another 14 inches to go. This winter is going to go on and on.”
Lezak forecast 32 inches or more of snow last November.
As for bar and restaurant owners pissed about last night’s (Thursday’s) customer-killing forecast of snow, don’t blame it on Lezak.
“Whoever thought that was going to happen watched another forecast not mine,” Lezak says. “I told viewers today’s snow would start at 4 a.m. and it actually started at 5 a.m., so I missed it by an hour.”
Not a day. Got that?
The distinction of forecasting the snow to hit last night goes to Fox 4’s Mike Thompson, who also likened today’s snowfall as being something akin to buying a slushy at the Circle K and tossing it on the street.
February 5th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Some of the best winter photo ops of the year right now (1:00 PM) in KC. Grab your camera and start clicking.
February 5th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
Gary is as accurate on this as he was the snow storm that was suppose to hit us last week….but…ah….well….ah…..it hit south of us.
February 5th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Remember a few years ago (I don’t remember exactly when), all the weather nazis were calling for the ice-storm of the century on Super Bowl Sunday? Not a drop of rain fell and my friend that owns a bar estimates they cost him $10,000 because everybody stayed home.
February 5th, 2010 at 9:43 pm
You guys are right, this winter has been a real blow with the bad economy and all, its just been a tough blow to a tough situation in KC…and the news guys don’t help by making any type of rain or snow sound like the END is coming…then say ’sorry its not that bad’ this snow storm was just a slushy mess but the streets were never very bad, and by evening totally clear, but by then people already decided to not go out…we live in a city with snow and rain,but we act like its suppose to be warm year round…thats just the way it is, I guess…but it does go overboard 90 per cent of the time.
February 6th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Lezak is always forecasting more snow than actually happens. What’s more, he seems to want to get more snow rather than less. I don’t need hearing, oh we may get a foot and we end up getting 3 inches or the storm misses us altogether.