Okay, maybe I’m more than a little biased. But as long as I am on God’s green earth I will never believe that there was ever a meteorologist who was as accurate and honest and entertaining as Earl Burton.
Earl Burton was born in Reidsville, North Carolina in 1940. Two things happened in his young life that wound up spinning him into someone legendary: his love of broadcasting, and the volumes of weather records that he began keeping as a teenager. Eventually he came to be an announcer on WREV AM-1220 out of Reidsville.
His flair for radio and his vast knowledge of local meteorology collided one fateful afternoon when Earl was about to relay a forecast from the National Weather Service to his listeners. He was set to read the report calling for rain when he stopped, paused for a moment, and told the audience “Folks, I think ...