Winter's cold, the spring and races. We're the downbeat. Wait you every morning, I Kevin Turner, Danny Baylis, Mike sir Roy, good morning. I'm Maddie in for JJ today. JJ getting a day off well deserved. We are going to be kind of doing a lot of stuff, including at eight twenty ish, I got a song I'm gonna do live. I love it. I mean, are you ready? Any schmow like Danny can just go cut a song with their incredible talents at their home studio. Not
me. I will go live because I don't have any pitch. I'm a terrible singer and a song that does, you know, have an angle to it. You're kind of like boys, You're kind of like my morning Jacket, Like nobody really listens to their records live. They're just incredible and you love going to their shows. You're kind of like them, my morning Hackett, You're my morning Wacket. But you know, look, that'll be eight twenty eight o'clock will also review some of our predictions. We did say and
we did get points on the board. Some of us might have got multiple points on the board. Cowboys, Packers predictions, and then at nine o'clock we'll discussion. Do we need to do something else about the change at coaching and we need to make a change here. Vegas Odds have already updated Bill Belichick. He raives it hilarious. He is the leader on one website. At one Vegas website betting odds, you predict McCarthy's getting fired tomorrow. I
do think in the next forty eight hours he will. I think by Wednesday he will get canned by Wednesday morning. That's my inform take. I think you can't go backwards. They went backwards and it was disgusting. And that team too. There's something Jerry didn't like about that team at his stadium. His Packers have never lost at Att Stadium. They have more playoff wins at AT and T Stadium than the Cowboys. Do you know another thing? And
we're gonna be joining by god. Also three the Lions last night said there's Aiden Hutchinson. He goes, yeah, of course, we wanted Dallas next week. Yeah, but they said that, yeah, like no one was fearing this team. So I think big twenty point wins over the Giants are cute. It's time to buck up. Man Paper champ ain't ready, but let's get an update on the other big story in the metroplex today, and
let's get an expert, because you know we're get up there. Well, we can all look at our models, but none of them are going to be as accurate as this guy. This guy does great work on NBC five. Uh, since he's been in town. This is the ninety seven won the freak debut of NBC five meteorologist, the Great Kevin with an a Kevin Smith. Hello, Kevin, good morning, Well, good morning, good Monday morning. Everyone. Yes, we're dealing with all of this art and
blast across North Texas. And I know everyone and we were talking about this for what over a week, and it is finally here. But the main story right now is what's happening with all of this snow. Actually, guys, we're dealing with lake effects snow across North Texas. He believe that you always hear about that up in the Great Lakes region. But what is happening
is that our wind is going in from the north. Now. The area lakes we're talking about, like Lake Raet, Hubbard, Lake Louisville, Eagle, Mountain Lake, their temperatures are still into the lord's mid forties, so that whole air is moving over the warm lakes. The air is rising over the lakes, and therefore we start to see clouds developing and therefore bands of snow down the wind from the lakes. And that's what we have been receiving
last night and we're also receiving it today. On top of that, we have an upper level of disturbance that's been moving through during the overnight periods of this morning, and we're also seeing bands of snow. Let's get to all what's happening with all these winter weathered byeries and warnings and all that. Yeah, folks in toward Dallas, fool work, Arlington, McKinny, extending to
the west and northwest. We still have a heart freeze warning and effect until ten am this morning, which means air temperature is as low as around six degrees above zero. Okay. We also have that winter Weather Advisory in effect until noon today. I still expecting more accumulating snow views that we talked about that lake effects snow. We have a wind chill advisory in effect until noon tomorrow, which means wind chill values those are phills like temperatures as low as
five degrees blow zero below zero yay. Yeah, And if you do some traveling to the east of US, it gets even worse over towards the Smith County that's Highler, and also back toward Texas Counta. They're under a winter storm warning. They're expecting they're seeing some freezing rains fleeting ice. They're under warning until six pm today. You know, Kevin, I like that you use the more official sounding wind chill as opposed to this new Instagram term real
feel. Yeah. Your thoughts, well, I'm old school and I was born you know, watching Herald Taft at NBC five, and I just know what it feels like to your skin. What it feels like to you is what we're going to be dealing with this. I just use the factor of a windshield. I saw you. You grew up in North Texas area. What part of town do you grow up in? I grew actually up in South Oak Cliff, So I'm Dallas native. I grew up there and then I went to school at Texas Tech Go Tech. Yes, read ready in
love at Texas your weather machine. Are you in front of a green screen right now? Because you just delivered the pro weather report just like it was nothing. Well, at the TV station, we actually have a green screen, and then we also have now days we have weather walls, so you know, back in those days it was just Actually we had blue screens too, so the things with a green screen and a blue screen, you just
can't wear that color because the graphics will go right through you. And I remember when starting in the business, to make a back day, we did seven day forecast. Now we do ten days, but it would take us to render those graphics. It would take us about an hour to do it. So you have to make sure you got the forecast correctly, otherwise you
would be out of luck when you start to show. So as far as because we drove in at about five o'clock this morning, give or take, and you know, there was snow on the roads, but it was fine. It wasn't icy. When is peak dangerous driving conditions? Is it right now? Do you think? Is it in a few hours and one are we're going to be on the other side of this thing? Yes, it
is right now. Because we have the lowest temperature at GFW now which is eleven degrees and actually we have now tied a record low temperature at eleven set back in nineteen o five. Wow, so yeah, it goes back to nineteen oh five, So this will be the worst driving period. And I will say this is the thankfully a pottery snow. This is a dry snow, so we're not dealing with those wet snowflakes. Now. The sun we will be coming out around midday and that will allow for some solar radiation.
Therefore, we're certainly some melting. But the bad thing, guys, and that when melts will be free, we're gonna see we're gonna see overnight temperatures and in tomorrow's not a holiday, so a lot of books will be on the roads tomorrow, and we're expecting low temperature tonight to bottom out into the
single digits. Uh. So we want to advise everyone for your Tuesday morning commute to be careful and also take heed onto the TV stations because I have a feeling that some school districts will be counseled or starting late on Tuesday. That says NBC five of meteorologist Kevin Smith joining us with the latest in the storms. And yeah, as you heard him, Tuesday could be, uh could be maybe the worst of this in terms of overall conditions. And things
like that. I have a question for you, Kevin. So you grow up and you're well, you know, we see the the meteorologists do their work on the screen, But what made you want to be meteorologists? Because I see your astrology fun facts every once in a while, and I think that's a good bit they've added to the broadcast there, and I think it's a lot of fun. So what made you want to get into this world?
I remember the Mayfest Hell event we had back in the nineties, and I remember watching that on television with David Interrupted, and I said to myself, that's what I want to do. I don't want to talk about the weather. So I went to school and got all my degrees and decided to do it. And I'm lucky enough and thankful enough to be doing it. And my home area which is Dallas for Worth, And I remember my first
night on air. My second grade teacher, Ms Akins, if you're listened to Miss Akkins from Lizabeth Elementary, she loves the free She called the other and said, wow, Kevin, you do a good job, and thank you very much. You know, she just she was so happy to see me on television. Yeah, David Finfrock who is the David I imagine, And he did not respond to my email. He's never responded to your email one time. No one ever has it until you did. Kevin. Well,
hey, you know, I'm a true believer. You treat people the way you want to be treated. And we come into this world and I think the world'll be a better place if we all did that. And whenever you reach out to me, when everyone someone reaches out to me, I will respond back to them, and just to give a help and hand out because everyone needs to know what's happening, especially on these weather conditions. And hey, guys, and give me a call when it's like back to one
hundred and ten degrees too. Yeah. Amen, all right, I have a question, Kevin, I need you to shoot me straight. So last night watching this Lions Rams game, right and your colleague Rick Mitchell jumps in right as they're a taking the knee Detroit ready to celebrate their first playoff win and forever, emotions running high in the stadium America watching and we had Rick Mitchell chime in with a weather report. I know this is a big thing.
So do me a favor, open up your company email and just start reading me emails. I want to know how it all went down. Oh, let me check it out. At least just give us the subject line three last night's roll. Well, I see something from the news director, but I can't say that, don't air. I don't want to get in trouble. But that is the point. Was there text going nuts? What what happened with Rick Mitchell's cut in that interrupted the end of the Lions game
yesterday? You know that was probably the technical people over the NBC five, But you know things happened with that, So we just lead out to the experts. But I did see some response of what did it transpire? But live TV and live radio or hard on television, you know, we live television. I always say, you know, things happen. You know, if I make a mistake, it's my mistake. But sometimes things happen behind the scenes. So you said, never know. You know, I've had
a question. There's something that's that's plagued my mind about the world of weather for decades. So you go to college, you decide early on you want to be a meteorologist. I would assume that there are hundreds, if not thousands of people across this great nation of ours, Kevin, that decide, you know what, that's the career path that I want to choose. In their mind, they want to land a TV gig and get on a news
outlet doing weather reports on screen. But I'm sure that those the number of those jobs are are very few in comparison to the people that want them. What does a meteorologist that doesn't end up landing a TV gig? How do they fulfill their career dreams moving forward into their life? Well, on, guys, you have like maybe three avenues you can sell. Some folks go into working for the government, Uh huh. Some folks work for like we
was governments feel like maybe like NASA or something like that. Or they may work for the National Weather Service, which is behind the scene. Sometimes they go into private work for you know, the airlines doing something behind you know, behind the scenes as well, or they go on the broadcast bent with which I did. And of course in television, we have two hundred television markets and they start very small when they go up to very big Dallas for
Worth is market number four to five. Now we're about to be number four because they come up with a new Nielson. It's coming out. Yeah. So it is with any job. You got to tall before you can walk. You've got to start small and you work your way up. And I've been lucky and blessed enough to where I started out in Lubbock, Texas working there. I worked in the Reno, Nevada, and they're an old stand. Once you go west, you never come back because the weather west is
a whole different story. But I was fortunate enough to come back. I worked in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I worked in Atlanta, Georgia, and now I'm back home, thankfully, back in Dallas for work. Kevin Smith, NBC five meteorologists joining us real quick, you do, just got a couple of minutes left here, do you do? You know? I said the astrology fun fact. I assume that you like space a little bit, and you just mentioned NASA. I got my mind taking you do you?
Are you a believer in extraterrestrial life forms? Are you following these you know, like government testimonies about UFOs? You know, I remember I was back to working a love. You know, you have people that call in they say, you know that we're seeding and all these things, and you know, people talk and I'm a big believer. I think that the biggest of people live on this planet. I hopefully written not just it. Otherwise it's just a whole lot of the waste. It's you know, space or something
space trash out there. You would think, well, we have a lot of that circling around us right now, but no, I mean, we just can't be it. And I do think probably long got the we're going that hopefully we will go beyond the Earth and go somewhere else, maybe Mars or beyond that. But first we got to get our satellites and stuff working pretty properly, because we have one up there right now. It's not working too good, not going to the moon, so we've got to work on
that a little bit long way to go. The truth. The truth is out there, Kevin, The truth is out there. Out there. Get some X files. Yeah, there you go. Well, Kevin, we appreciate the time, and we'd love to have you have you on again sometime and just to for you know, you get update on what's going on out there, the conditions and things like that. So we're just the guys in the studio and you have the technology, the knowledge, the expertise. We
appreciate you jumping on with us this morning. My pleasant I will say, this weather right now kind of feels like all our Cowboys fans this morning. Oh I'll you talking about someone maybe getting a pink slip here within the next forty eight hours. It's possible. I mean, there's a h it's possible. Can't take playoff losses around here, but we'll also try to survive the winter storm before anyone loses their job. I think it's just cruel to fire
someone and make can pack up their box in eleven degree tips. All right, that's Kevin Smith. That's Kevin with an A. You guys can all go follow him on Twitter or wherever else. Give him a follow and check him out on NBC five does great work because they're great. Kevin Smith. Thanks Kevin, Thank you, Kevin. Kevin, there he goes. Good dude. How about that hit, Hit it and run. You introduced him in Bam. We're bouncing all over the Metroplex. We hit Lake Effect.
He hit Arctic Blast right out of the gates. We were playing the balls in here. He played the hits. He really did. Yes, what a beast. I never knew that about the snow getting picked up over lakes. Yeah, I don't know that was a thing. Well, I know it isn't. I heard of it, but I didn't explained it. I didn't know what applied to our little lakes. So is he the official down beating your ologis? Shure? We get to try out still on, I mean Grant and John's on behind you right now. He was amazing. He
did a great job. For now. Kevin's our guy. Yep, all right, Kevin south oak Cliff. Yeah, how about that? Really good good work. Well, it's good to have experts on to handle that stuff. Traffic's kind of all over the map. I mean there's there's accidents like any day, and then there's a lot of people that I had to go to work today. So anything big breaking happens, we will let you know. Now let's get to the Arkot portion of the of the broadcast, and
that what you like to hear. What are you guys keeping your temps at on your heater in your in your house? Did you get the aircot warning yesterday afternoon and go up to your heater and knock it down a couple of degrees just to do the right thing. Uh, mine's at seventy. Yeah here am I okay? I was at seventy. I usually keep it at sixty nine just because, and then I dipped it down to sixty six. Did you when I got the alert yesterday afternoon, I went ahead and went
ahead and did it. Were you and you think that helped the grid? Did you help the grid? You havevio? You're probably one of those people that thinks your vote counts. Well. I'm also just no, I'm also compensating for my space heater that's going on in my garage, that's heating up my washing machine to make sure that it doesn't freeze. You still got that going, Yeah, contraption, come to your house. I want you follow the home like considered like a general home inspection. Yeah, Danny and I
do it. We'll have clipboards and we just want to walk around, maybe take a few photos. Maybe I have a measuring tape and just measure some things. We just want to see what your work. Only if you'll stay and play a board game with me. Hell yeah, play a board damn board game. We order a pizza from Andrews and watch the MAVs mute it. Listen to the MAVs on the freak. I got a rush home and take my dog out two days. All these excuses. I'm here trying to
let you inspect my house. Let's send a real inspector over to Kevin's house and see how many red tags get adhered to moving out and immediately you can't live here. It's unfit for humans. Are you are y' all dripping? We're dripping. That doesn't do anything, Okay, I'd look. I saw something on the internet that told me that it makes no difference. Well, yeah, okay, test it then, you know that's what I'm saying. Come on, man, I'm dripping. You gotta drip. You gotta leave
the cabinets out, left the cabinets open. To leave the cabinets open, you know, it also helps if you're trying to just prevent some cold air. Maybe you go to get towels, put them by your window, seals underneath your doors. That work, Yep, it gets it. It takes up something that cold air. I think I do have some bad seals in the door. Yeah, doorways. I did wrap my spigots because you guys told me to get a really poor job though. Did you use a water
burger cup? Yeah? I just put a single water burg cup. I just mashed it through so it puffed through the bottom of the cup. Anyway, did you see that story matter nothing? That people were you know those Spigott covers that you buy at home depot, those old insulators I learned about. The people were running like they were running out of those because everybody, of course, when a weather event is impending, they panic and buy up all the toilet paper and Spigott covers. Well, supplying to man is a
real thing. Maybe tomorrow we introduced the downbeat singing Spiggot cover. Okay, and anyway, because because that was the thing and the depots were selling, don't make me do that. Tonight we got the Emmys. It's a cup that water burger. They were having a rush on their their large drinks because apparently the large styrofoam waterburger cup will fit perfectly over and and and be like a poor man's whatever you call a little Spiggot cover. Yeah, so Texas,
and I've seen people using those photos on the internet. I did a towel, like a hand towel, and then like a plastic bag over it, and then I tried to rubber band it, but I couldn't really get the man of work, so it's all just kind of sitting on there. But much like the busted waterburger cup, I like better, nothing better, nothing better, nothing, Look at me do, homeowner. And this is
the TikTok portion of the segment. There's a small plane crashing in Poolville killed three Rangers bench coach Donnie Ecker loses his house in a home, but he escaped unharmed. And he loses his house in a home and fire. Yeah, I lose his home in a fire, but he escaped unharmed. And sources say the Rangers are the favorites to re sign starting pitcher Jordan Montgomery.
The Hurtado Barbecue offer tip the scales. I would say, you now have power when you enter the breakthrow and get to the water cooler because you just listened to the scuttle butt thing Goose Morning News at eight thirty. Don't miss that last modia from the game. That's kind of crazy. Nine o'clock. What we're gonna do here, We're gonna make a change. We're gonna get down to it and let you jump in on that two and four or eight one seven seven, eight seven one nine seven to one. That's it.
At nine o'clock nine thirty get trade for the Emmys tonight, with a chance for you to win MAVs tickets as well. But coming up next we're gonna tell you we're checking our predictions from Cowboys Packers see how we did. But also at eight twenty a live rendish of a song that I've created, an immemoriam to Mike McCarthy, who I believe will be canned in the next forty eight hours. That's next. On ninety seven to one the Freak, Here's Danny. Will we wait for that? Here's a zero res live spot