ABC7 is honoring meteorologist Dallas Raines for his 40 years of forecasting Southern California's weather.
Monday, June 10, 2024 10:54PMIt was 1984, a year Los Angeles was bustling with the energy of the Summer Olympics. But along with all the athletes swinging into town, over at KABC someone else was about to make a big splash.arrived from CNN, sporting a thick headful of hair, a gold-medal tan and the perfect name for a weather expert.Or as fan and longtime watcher Jimmy Kimmel joked, perhaps Dallas has the skills to do more than just forecast....
"On the day I got married to my beautiful wife Molly, it looked like there was going to be a thunderstorm and it was an outdoor wedding and we were out in Ojai," Kimmel recalled. "And I called Dallas and I said, 'Dallas, please, is there anything you could do?' And Dallas went outside on this front lawn .... He looked up at the sky and he shouted at the thunderclouds, 'Go away! I beseech thee!' And the sky cleared, we had a beautiful wedding thanks to the power of Mr. Dallas Raines."
Over the years, Dallas has perfected a series of trademark gestures and motions. There's the four-knuckle forecast. The whirl. The swing. And of course, the crouch."You are Los Angeles weather," said Lisa Ann Walter, of "Abbott Elementary." "You're mostly sunny and sometimes a little windy.""You are really just a ray of sunshine and a big bright spot in my life," said ABC7 meteorologist Leslie Lopez.
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