Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook and share your thoughts with us by emailBlack Box Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab () today. Sign up ()! Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Our newsletter comes out every Wednesday. Episode Credits: Reported by Simon Adler and Annie McEwenProduced by Annie McEwen and Simon AdlerSound & Music by Simon Adler and Annie McEwenMixing help from Arianne WackFact-checking by Diane KellyEdited by Soren Wheeler Citations: Books: If you're curious to know more about the history of weather forecasting, go check out Kris Harper's book Weather by the Numbers. Special Thanks:Special thanks to Xandra Clark, Homa Sarabi, Santi Dharmawan, Francisco Alvarez, Maureen O'Leary and everyone at NOAA, Simon Elkabetz, Jack Neff, Joe Pennington, Brad Colman, Morgan Yarker, Megan Walker, Eric Bramford, Jay Cohen and Irving Krick Jr for supplying us with tons of great archival footage and audio. ![]() 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. 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. He was a salesman who turned the weather into a product. He was suave and dapper, with the charm of a sunbeam and the boldness of a thunderclap. But in the 1940s, there was really only one of them: Irving P. They're local celebrities with an outsized influence. ![]() Rolling onto the airwaves at morning, noon and night they tell us what to wear and where to plan our picnics.
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