The Weather Report | Radiolab Podcast

From the Radiolab podcast: the story of how one man and one woman changed the weather forever.

Meteorologists are as common as the clouds these days. Rolling onto the airwaves at morning, noon and night they tell us what to wear and where to plan our picnics. They’re local celebrities with an outsized influence. But in the 1940s, there was really only one of them: Irving P. Krick. He was suave and dapper, with the charm of a sunbeam and the boldness of a thunderclap. He was a salesman who turned the weather into a product.

Today, listen to the story of Krick and his descendants, a crew of profit prophets who have found fame and fortune staring at the sky and seeing the future. We follow them from the bloody beaches of World War II to the climate-changed coasts of today, exploring their impact and predicting what they’ll mean in our wackier weather world.

Episode Segments:
00:00 The Man Who Sold the Weather
28:07 Green Greed

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Guests in this episode include: Don Berchoff, Kris Harper, Dan Slagen, Keith Seitter, Karen Clark, Danny Miller.

Photo illustration Anna Rascouët-Paz.

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