Gary Archibald, Weathercaster

I have to say that I am truly blessed – spoiled in the very best way working with a great team of what I call the nation’s “storytellers”. Yes, I am a story-telling specialist – the ongoing, ever changing, often times enthralling, powerful, tragic, and omnipresent saga that is the weather. There is in fact a lighter side to this story about storytellers. In fact, behind the scenes at NBC Weather Plus and MSNBC, we do enjoy working together, thriving in an upbeat, active, energetic beehive, and the epicenter of news broadcast.

About to go on-air for Weather Plus

To give you, my friends, a better indication of who we are as a team on the weekends (the Saturday crew as I refer to our band)…take a look at the photos taken by yours truly on Saturday May 26th, 2007 while working the weekend shift for MSNBC and NBC Weather Plus.

The MSNBC set

You can from these images get a sense of the great colleagues and friends that I have here – all of us under the umbrella of GE-NBC Universal.

Members of The Saturday Crew

In these photos I am pictured along with the extraordinary likes of the very talented, dynamic, smart and beautiful following young ladies:

All smiles with Alex Witt, MSNBC anchor

News anchor star Alex Witt of MSNBC (what a delight – so smart, so engaging, so much positive energy emanates from her and so funny!)

Britta Merwin and me

Meteorologist and weathercasters Britta Merwin and Michelle Grossman (they are too wonderful for words really – it’s a blessing to work with and know them)

In the Weather Plus studio with Michelle Grossman

Web producer and designer Mara Sonnenschein (a joy, and she has a great sense of humor to boot)

Web Producer Mara Sonnenschein needs a lot of coffee!

I also work Saturdays with Director Pam Solovay (whose last day before her maternity leave was today – she’s going to be missed beyond words until she returns no doubt – my congratulations to Pam and her hubby as baby soon makes his or her arrival – we are all so happy for them!!).

Pam "controls" it all

Rob (left) and Mike, world-class meteorologists

In addition, I have the pleasure of working with meteorologists Michael Dangolovich and Rob Janiec. These gentlemen are world-class forecasters who are also a delight to work with.

Andy Foord at the controls

Andy Foord is another dynamite director on the WX+ side. It’s amazing what Andy and Pam do behind the scenes to put pictures and sound together on the fly – live! He’s quite the sports nut – hockey being a favorite so you know that Andy and I get along very well (I’m Canadian – we love hockey and the people who love it too).

I hope that you liked the tour and the look at just a few of the special people I am privileged to work with on a regular basis.

Cheers!

GA