It's taken me a number of years to convert my old VHS tapes of The Weather Channel to DVD, but it's finally happening. And by happening, I mean that a friend (and TWCC contributor) is converting them for me. I've never converted a single tape successfully, but he's converted plenty and is very good at it. So I asked him if he would convert a few of mine, and he said yes.
He's still converting them, so I don't have the DVDs yet, but he was nice enough to share some of the local forecasts with me. Here are those clips. The first clip is the oldest (as far as I know) local forecast I have from Omaha.
This local forecast was recorded on January 2, 1993. The song playing is "Jenny C" by Peter Buffett. I apologize for the first part of the local forecast being cut off. I also apologize for the quality of these clips. I knew nothing about properly recording back then.
The second local forecast was recorded on July 28, 1994. If you're a fan of the WeatherSTAR 4000 Simulator program, you may recognize the song. It's "Midnight Picnic" by Eko. You may notice that the reporting city has changed from "Omaha/Co Bluffs" to just "Omaha."
The next local forecast was recorded on the same day. I remember this day well. We went out that night to see a movie or something. Before we left, I hit record. I ended up recording several hours. Anyway, the song in this one is "Return of the Nairobi Trio" by Shadowfax.
The next two local forecasts were recorded on April 7, 1995. This one features "Breakin' Away" by Network Music. You may notice here that "Gr Island" (short for Grand Island) has been added to the regional maps. I never figured out why they added that city, as their weather was usually similar to North Platte's.
This one features "River's Bend," also by Network Music. You may notice that the "Local Update" here has grey text and is centered. This was later updated to white, left-aligned text.
The final Omaha local forecast (for now) was recorded on April 14, 1998. It features "Kaleidoscope" by Bryan Savage. If you're wondering why there's a clock on the top right that constantly says 0:00:11, it's because I copied this from another tape, but didn't bother to turn off the tape time.
