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Article: Meteorologists making links between weather, public health.(Today's weather forecast calls for health)
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- The Nation's Health
- Article date:
- April 1, 2009
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ON A FRIGID morning this February, Detroit meteorologist Paul Gross was on heightened alert. A snow storm was bearing down on Motor City.
It had been Detroit's second stormy winter in a row, said Gross, executive weather producer at WDIV-TV. Snow can wreak havoc on a commuter city like Detroit, notorious for its lack of an organized and reliable mass transit system.
As always, Gross was concerned for the health and safety of his viewers, and decided to include a public health warning in his weather forecast that evening. Once, several years ago, a viewer thanked him for advice she said saved her life.
"It was a ...