Bay Area Weather: Mea Culpa?
So much for La Niña? Not sure. But after record-high temperatures last week, tonight may be the coldest of the year, with lows dipping into the 20s in some spots around here, the result of cold air rolling in from Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
PG&E must be breathing a corporate sigh of relief with the onset of cold temperatures. This winter, it’s offering customers a 20 percent rebate on their home heating bills if they reduce their natural gas consumption by 10 percent. Continously warm weather might have wreaked havoc with Pacific Gas & Electric’s billing department.
In an effort to find a related news story to link to, I noticed KRON 4 has put up a page devoted to sports reporter Gary Radnich’s ad-libbing last week when a fire alarm went off during his live broadcast. Radnich, who basically ad libs his daily sports segment, anyway (and does a good job: funny, sometimes bullying, with a Hemingway-style shockproof bullshit detector), struck a nice balance between exasperation and amusement as he talked with the anchors and the remaining crew. I found it entertaining, and was hoping others could see it in a low-quality Windows Media Player stream. Turns out you can! Right here.
Below: Radnich photographed for a Chronicle article about his 20 years on the air.
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