![]() Now the wait to see if one comes to fruition is so long that it’s exhausting just wait for it to arrive! It feels like we talk about them forever before they happen. I think it may have been more fun back in the day when you wouldn’t have much of a clue until a few days out. We can see a pattern that’s conducive for one more than a week in advance sometimes…and there are pros and cons to that. The biggest build-up events are snowstorms. Probably sounds sad to some people, but the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is look at the overnight computer models to see if anything changed while I slept. Leading up to them now, there’s a lot of computer model watching and discussions with our weather team. When you work in one specific area, a big event may only happen one or two times a year…or not even at all. Run of the mill weather doesn’t register. When you work for a national outlet you’re always on the watch for a BIG event because across this large country, there’s almost always something going on. NEL: When there is a noteworthy, multiday weather event on the horizon, what are your days like (nonstop hours, prepping for national segments, etc.)? And do big storms thrill you as much as we assume they do?ĮF: I have to say, the Weather Channel kind of ruined me. But I also enjoyed reporting on the way communities came together to get to work and recover. When you see materials like steel and stone twisted and wrecked and objects that weigh tons thrown all over the place…it is very surreal. While working at the Weather Channel I reported on the Super Outbreak in 2011 and the Moore, Oklahoma tornado in 2013. NEL: Is there a particular storm that you’ve reported that stands out as the “one to remember”?ĮF: The tornadoes are most memorable for me, perhaps just because we don’t often deal with the big ones here in New England. Sounds crazy, but there just seemed to be a love of weather running in the background of my mind. ![]() ![]() As early as middle school I was issuing “forecasts” for my friends and have yearbooks with “can’t wait to see you on TV as a meterologist!” comments written in them. As far back as I can remember I watched the clouds and got geeked up for snowstorms and thunderstorms. I spent a lot of time outside growing up and was always keeping an eye on what the weather was doing. But the reality is that an interest was just always there and I don’t know why. I wish I could say there was one particular role model or an iconic event in my town that started it. New England Living: What is it about weather that fascinated you as a child and made you devote your career to it?Įric Fisher: You know…I don’t have a great answer for that. He joined the team at CBS Boston’s WBZ-TV in 2013. He worked there for three years, further establishing his bona fides covering major storms on a national level. From there it was onto what one would assume is nirvana for weather geeks, The Weather Channel. “I was that kid sitting out on the porch with Mom yelling at me to get inside during thunderstorms,” he said.Īfter graduating from UAlbany, Eric, a native of Massachusetts, worked as a meteorologist at WGGB-TV in Springfield. in 2006, the self-proclaimed “weather geek” had a backyard weather station when he was a child. In a story in UAlbany magazine, published by University at Albany, where Eric completed his B.S. (Don’t you just love the internet?) It seems Eric’s love of all things weather stretches further back. Makes sense as a professional “aha moment,” but in the name of good journalism, we felt the need to dig a little deeper. Glued to the red warnings crawling across the screen and watching the radar, his career in weather was born.” According to his bio on CBS Boston, where he is the chief meteorologist, Eric Fisher’s professional path was solidified on Memorial Day in 1995, “…when an infamous tornado ripped through Great Barrington in the Berkshires.
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