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Hi, I'm Scott Stevens. Weather has been a fascination of mine since I started keeping a weather diary for a Scouting merit badge, that was back in July 1978. For that badge I had to watch the local stations weathercast, log the forecast, and keep the daily weather conditions in a diary for 30 days. By months end I was hooked on the weather; and I was just 12 years of age. Two years after earning the weather merit badge came my Eagle award. By the summer of my 13th year I was reporting our small town's daily conditions to the area TV stations. Little did I know, but hoped, that those contacts would become my way into the TV business. By my senior year in high school I was working at KIFI TV, the NBC affiliate at the time, in Idaho Falls as a studio camera operator/production assistant. Soon I was also a photographer for the news department, as time and my other responsibilities allowed. During that year I figured out that I wanted to be doing weather for a career even though my first weather casting takes really stunk! They were so bad that I thought I'd end up in business school. Thankfully, I am a lot better now!
I chose the University of Kansas to study meteorology. These Idaho winters were just too rugged for me. Snow in May, yuck! There was that and the math requirements at KU weren't too tough.
During my sophomore year at KU I auditioned for one of three weather openings at KTKA in Topeka. I was not yet good enough. I was just 20, still a little young and scared. Five months later I received a call back, this time I landed a job that would cost me twice as much to keep as it paid. I had to buy a car. Ah, the glory of TV! But 13 months later I had gone from a 2-hour/5 day a week job to the main guy. It felt good. Not long afterwards a phone call came from Omaha Nebraska, and RFD-TV. It was a start-up satellite news service that delivered agricultural focused news and weather information to a national audience. It was a very tough job in many aspects and a great learning experience.
Storm chasing, at KJRH in Tulsa Oklahoma, came during the early 90's where I worked the morning show. I enjoyed that job just about the most of all. The weather there was the easiest to forecast and I didn't even mind,too much, the 3:30am alarm.
I spent a little more than a year in the Capital District of New York as the chief for WRGB. What beautiful country! And they know how to clear the roads after a big snowstorm!
I returned home in 1996 to eastern Idaho and to my present employer KPVI-TV. Without question, forecasting here is a great challenge; I suppose even more so with all that is going on in the skies.
This is my first attempt at a web site. I just wanted to get the 'bones' of this thing up and going so I can learn Dreamweaver and watch this project and the global awareness of all that is occuring in the skies grow.
Send me your pictures and thoughts. I am especially interested to hear from others employed in the weather industry.
Thanks for stopping by and reading.
--Scott Stevens
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