NO ONE REVELS IN THE HARSH AND BEAUTIFUL SCIENCE OF CLIMATE MORE THAN JIM CANTORE, THE WEATHER CHANNEL'S FRANCHISE ANCHOR. IF HE SHOWS UP IN YOUR TOWN, IT MIGHT BE TIME TO BOARD UP THE WINDOWS, FILL UP THE TUB, AND FLIP ON THE TUBE. There may, in fact, be nothing anyone in this vast universe loves more than Jim Cantore loves thundersnow - which, as the name suggests, is the simultaneous appearance of two distinct meteorological features, a phenomenon that takes place in just 0.07 percent of all storms. One video clip, captured in February in Plymouth, Massachusetts, shows Cantore's ice-slathered face looking momentarily stunned when lightning flashes amid the snowflakes, then he begins screaming, "You gotta be kidding me! Yes! Yes! Yes! You can have your $500 million jackpot in Powerball or whatever the heck it was, but I'll take this, baby!" while he leaps and attaboy-pumps his arms. To watch Cantore in this sort of rapture is to watch a man bursting with an ecstasy so complete you begin to feel a bit embarrassed, like you've caught him unawares in the throes of passion, a man liquefied and consumed, his very being blown to particles by the weather equivalent of the money shot.
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