Charts and graphs are mighty boring, weathermen can leave you snoring; but use some rap and fate be willin', you'll know real soon if it's hot or chillin'.
To add some spunk to weather reports, a syndicated forecaster rapped to the music of Technotronic on Tuesday, and his word was heard from Boston to Kansas City."Somebody put me up to it last week," said Elliot Abrams of Accu-Weather Inc., which supplies local forecasts to radio stations across the country. "They said the only thing they haven't heard me do was a rap version."
Listeners in Pennsylvania and Ohio heard the version Tuesday. Stations in Boston, Cincinnati and Kansas City had rap reports Monday.
"Elliot has a lot of poetic lines in his system, and they're trying to get out," said Mark Helms, executive editor at KYW-AM, an all-news station in Philadelphia. "It's not something we would try every day."
The forecast for Pennsylvania was:
"Now dudes are wondering what comes here next, so I'll be reading from this text; the word is going to bring no sorrow, 'cause rain that's here is gone tomorrow.
"It's raining. (Thump, thump, thump.) It's raining.
"Take this message to the street, tomorrow will not bring any heat; the clouds will leave but it stays cool, so wear a coat, don't be no fool."
The translation: Rain Tuesday, then clearing and cooler.
"He sounded good with it. I was stomping my foot," said John Cigna, the morning host on KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh.