![]() “I wanted to be a meteorologist when I was young. “I wish I was as good at anything as he is this,” one commenter posted on YouTube. When he woke the next morning, he read a surprising email from a colleague: “People on Reddit are going crazy you’re going viral!”Ī Reddit user had posted Sealls’ weather report on the social news aggregation website and declared him “Best Weatherman Ever.” The post became the top trending item on the site, and by the end of the day, his YouTube clip had 4 million views.Ĭommenters praised Sealls’ calm, educational presentation, in contrast to the sometimes-dramatic weather reports on other programs. When Sealls went to bed that night, his video had 60,000 views. Between his on-air forecasts, Sealls also posted a weather segment on YouTube. Sealls presented the grim forecast in the characteristically calm and informative way he has honed for more than 30 years since he left Ithaca with a degree in atmospheric sciences. It was early September 2017, and Hurricanes Irma, Jose and Katia were all barreling toward the Gulf of Mexico, near where meteorologist Alan Sealls ’85 explains the weather each day for viewers of WKRG, the CBS affiliate in Mobile, Alabama. You can watch Talk to Tom anytime on News 6+.Alan Sealls ’85 holds a trophy made by colleagues after users on Reddit declared him the “Best Weatherman Ever.” Hear more about Treanor’s travels, his battle and victory over alcohol abuse, and more on Talk to Tom. And what happened was I went on a trip with our church group to Israel and discovered I like traveling.” Because I was afraid, I’d be forgotten, or I wouldn’t know what to do with myself. I thought, ‘As long as I’m working, I’m important or I am somebody, I have an identity.’ And I didn’t know how not to work. ![]() ![]() If you ask a man about himself, he’ll start talking about his job. “If you ask a lady to tell you about herself, quite often she’ll tell you about her children. I’ve talked to some people about this before,” he said. Treanor said retirement was a big transition. Treanor worked at News 6 until he retired for the last time in 2019. After Treanor stopped working at another news station in Orlando he asked Sorrells if he could get him a job at News 6. “I called you and left you a message, you called me back, we met for barbecue and we talked for six hours, maybe three,” Sorrells said. ![]() So, after seeing a story about him in the newspaper he got his phone number through mutual acquaintances. Shortly after moving to Central Florida, Sorells said people always asked him if he knew Treanor, but he didn’t because he was working at a competing station. Sorrells said he knew he loved Treanor the first time he met him. Sorrells also became part of that community after joining News 6 in 2000. He said soon after getting here Hurricane David hit and his coverage of the storm helped him to gain the community’s trust. Treanor brought that relatability to the sunshine state in the late 1970′s. He said he would lean on the information from experts at the NWS and present that information to the community in a relatable way. He said he would get his weather information from a teletype machine, but quickly made friends with people at the National Weather Service. At that time Treanor said, “Television was in its infancy”. ![]()
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