Jim Cantore knows weather. The Weather Channel meteorologist Jim Cantore has a video going viral of him responding crazy to a Thundersnow moment on Tuesday night covering the Chicago Blizzard on the cable channel. The winter thundersnow was definitely a rare kind of thunderstorm with snow falling as the primary precipitation instead of rain and lightning in the area as well.
“Oh Jesus, Listen to that. Son of a….,” says Cantore who seems so shocked that the thundersnow is right above the Weather camera crew that he has shares it in short exclamations. “That's believable! Oh my goodness. Holy Smoke. Just Incredible.”
The January Blizzard of 2011 virtually crippled the Chicago, Illinois area as the residents of the area were digging out of feet and not inches of snow. While the snow stopped on Wednesday the cleanup continued and people were glad to see the precipitation end.
The thundersnow moment is one of those laugh at yourself moments for Jim Cantore and for the viewers it was a laugh at a Weather Channel host moment. Reminding everyone just how weather is still a science that isn’t always predictable, there was no way for Cantore to know the lightning would be going off as the cameras were rolling.
Of course the real awe of this video recorded on Tuesday is the weather itself. The rarity of a thundersnow is hardly seen and the blizzard over the Chicago area brought out an amazing moment.
Take a moment to check out the video clip from the thundersnow in Chicago.
Comments
Check your facts ... don't be an amateur journalist. Cantore was covering a storm in Massachusetts, not Chicago.
Doh.
according to the weather channel it takes place in Chicago... So maybe you criticizers should check your facts.
Yeah, check your facts, sweetie. Jim was in Worcester, Massachusetts. Chicago wasn't the only city under the severe weather patttern.
Hi Anonymous. The video referred to in this article is in Chicago. The Massechusetts thundersnow video is from 1997. Check your facts, sweetie.
Saw the trilogy of Cantoe Thundersnow reactions on TV last nite and he first was excited, as the years past he has mellowed.. Next time he should just stand there immune to the surroundings.
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