WEATHER CHANNEL 1983

[danewson]

Thanks for posting this vintage clip.

[atltraffic]

Apparently the spelling of the word "wintery" changed between 1983 and now.  Nowadays on TWC, they spell it "wintry" - as in "wintry mix"

[bfranci]

Oregon and Washington are under a Severe Hair Dryer Warning.

[MrJacMac1986]

I went to my grandfolks house that xmas when i was 15 in the ATL. It was sooo cold.All I had on was a long sleeve shirt, a sweater and my new black Members Only jacket.Wish id had thermal underwear.

[pbanta62]

I remember watching TWC first in a hotel room at the beach when I was a kid. The logo had a song "We're weather-proofing America, we're The Weather Channel!".

[lolwut71]

2:22 BOW CHIK-KA BOW BOW...

[Fanik8]

anyone know who the first woman on-air was?

[packerfan10]

1983 was a very cold and dry winter for Southern California. Not one to remember for rain lovers. Only good storms where in December the rest of the seasons sucked bad.

[bambina320]

i was exactly 3 months and 1 day on this day!

[toucansam3]

@bambina320 I was exactly 8 years and 24 days on this day.

[bambina320]

@toucansam3 aww u are older then me lol.

[tatomuck18]

where were you when you recorded this?

[Crowflug]

Wow.. that set looks primitive compared to the current sets on TWC! LMAO

[jste77]

these guys talking about their wives pies....

[candy147]

Wow, this was just 2 days before I was born! :) Seems like they had fun on air back then, more relaxed..

[blisterfree]

Wow - back before "segueway burnout" - these guys actually seemed to be enjoying themselves there with the idle chatter!

[4evergettingdirty]

lmao ....BIG FAN OF WEATHER CHANNEL

[whattheheck1000]

love seeing this weather star 1

[metsfreak4life]

The Weather Channel: May 2, 1982 - present

The Weather Channel's PRIME: May 2,1982 - August 15, 2005

[whattheheck1000]

@metsfreak4life i say TWC's prime was 1982-1995, and 1999-2005. :)

[epzik8]

@whattheheck1000 So you think TWC also sucked from 1995-1999, but then it was good again for 6 years :)

[whattheheck1000]

@epzik8 didn't suck, but i like 1982-1995 and 1999-2005 better. Personally, the BEST time for TWC was 1988-1995 and 2002-2003.

[Childrenofthecornsno]

Change is NOT always good...

[edvhou812]

It would be funny if he said "cherry pie."

[AMEwrestling]

What happened to Will Annen? Did he retire? Him and Bill Keneely were my favorites. I know Keneely is the only original there.

[Brian528]

NBC has runned The Weather Channel,its all commercials or that stupid Wake Up With Al crap

[John19182004]

runned? what the fuck is that?

[ILovestorms]

@John19182004 He meant ruined.

[WESTECLD]

Remember when The Weather Channel used to show the weather?

[MrCavalier82]

Wasn't that back when MTV showed music videos?

[Statax]

a blow dryer lmao

[hoodlow77]

i remember will annen, although this clip is about 4 yrs before i started watching TWC

i think its cool that they were able to be themselves on air

[ellesstee]

Yeah. Men were allowed to act like men, not like emasculated eunuchs like the wimps on TWC today.

[XtremeWeirdo]

Will Annen! Awesome.

[kxmode]

"three big slabs of pie"

[Naushop1]

Christmas '83 was a white one for Nantucket.

[tornadojoe]

was there any hotties back then.I didnt get into it til 1993 I been recording it ever sense few mins of every host I got some of the best of the 90`s Julie,Jodie.early Sharon.

[tonytarheel55]

gay dawson was the first one in 1982

[Z3R0FiR3]

I could swore I seen Celsius on the bottom. That's rare now, here in the US.

[piano77man77]

I like at the very end how they play one of Kenny G's first songs, "Tell Me", from 1982.

[Brayds2006]

That ID at the end is the earliest i've seen on YT. Back then, it was most likely cutting edge graphics.

[kris6694]

I'm guessing you weren't very old (or not yet alive) in 1983.. The weather channel was so much better in those days when info was "off the cuff," computers were new and "crude," (The Apple IIe was the height of technology for $3000), and we marveled at seeing tv "via satellite" coming from thousands of miles away.... live on cable. By the way, "Will Annen" disappeared from twc during this decade... (let go for "prettier" people) after 20years..

[xxxx7706]

....are these guys closeted? I look forward to "eating pie" with you????? I know it's the 80s and it's corny but come on! I'm sure people had more to talk about than raisin pie....I wonder if these guys are still alive...

[lilslim79]

lol this is sad. i could make this in my room and look better

its amazing how much technology and graphics advanced in just over 20 years...

[punkchica321]

'Cold' Haha for some reason instead of them using actual temps is hilarious to me. :P

[nicklebackfan]

It was a different era. They probably didn't have the graphics they do now and couldn't put actual temperatures on. Computers now can process almost every type of weather data that there is and put it in graphical form.

[punkchica321]

That is very true. :)

[funkmike]

Al Gore invented the weather channel.

[mandrake2273]

Very cool! But, I am surprised that there was a weather channel back in the early eighties!

[gavinovz]

At lest there talking about pie rather then climate change.

[gjs78]

True

[andrewbnkjv]

This was high tech back then.

[gjs78]

Their Studio looks like a Public Access show made in some basement

[menaceofdennis]

The wayne's world of weather!

[gjs78]

Wayne's World! Wayne's World!

LOL

[haney8106]

Christmas 1983 was very cold in much of the US.

[VideoWizard2006]

Actually, the US's average temperature in 2007 is the lowest its been since 1983 (remember how cold it was from February through May?), so there's more to it than that. It has already snowed in west and central Texas and northwest Mexico this fall, and its only late November.

It all depends on the jet stream.

[JohnnyDart76]

@VideoWizard2006: Sounds about right to me. =)

[relletsara]

I was born on Christmas, 1 day before this aired during a ground blizzard. It is neat to see the video.

[ILovestorms]

That was a frigid, extremely COLD Christmas.

[ILovestorms]

I thought Dan Chandler didn't do promos or anything else for TWC until 1987.

[moreau36]

He didn't do the local forecast narration until 1987

[dgendvil]

Was he the same Dan Chandler from WAXY radio in Miami?

[jwgreek8606]

do you have any Weather Channel videos with Dan Atkinson in them?