WGN-TV/Chicago Tribune Meteorologist Richard Koeneman reports that snowfall in the mountains near Asheville has reached to about 6 inches and is still falling at a heavy rate. Snow totals are expected to top 12 inches before the storm ends.
Photo by Richard Koeneman
They deal with tornadoes, blizzards, and floods, but Chicago meteorologists also know how to have fun.
Watch Chicago's weather men and women -- including our very own Tom Skilling -- in a music video produced for the 50th Anniversary of the Chicago Emmy Awards, October 18, 2008.
Congratulations to Tom Skilling for 30 wonderful years of reporting, researching, and sharing the weather with us here at WGN and across the Midwest!
It is with a heavy heart that I must relay the unfortunate news of the sudden and unexpected death of Dennis Haller, a valued member of the WGN weather team. Dennis passed away this weekend at his home in Washburn, Wisconsin, a small town in far northern Wisconsin near Bayfield.
Dennis joined the WGN weather team in 1998 after his retirement from the National Weather Service and was a frequent contributor to this weather blog and the Chicago Tribune weather page. Not only was Dennis an excellent forecaster and extremely passionate about the weather, but he also had a love and an in-depth knowledge of gardening and astronomy that he frequently incorporated into his weather page features.
He will be greatly missed. Funeral /memorial arrangements are pending.
--By Steve Kahn, WGN Weather Center Meteorologist
After 30 years of forecast experience at the Milwaukee and Chicago National Weather Service forecast offices, meteorologist Richard Koeneman has been a member of the WGN-TV/Tribune weather page team since its inception in 1997 and has been a frequent contributor ever since. In 2000 he moved to beautiful North Carolina where he lives on the mountains of Appalachia, but he remains an active contributor via email, telephone, faxes and regular visits to Chicago. He's currently writing a book on Chicago's climatology.
