John Bolaris
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John Bolaris (born June 27, 1957) is the weekday evening meteorologist for WCBS-TV, New York. He joined WCBS in 2003 after a stint at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia. He has one child, a girl.
He started his career in 1982 at Metro Weather Service where he worked as a syndicated meteorologist until 1980, when he joined News 12 Long Island. Later that year, he joined WCBS-TV as the weekend meteorologist where he worked for the next three years. In 1997, he joined WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, PA as the chief meteorologist where he worked until 2003. He is rumored to be leaving WCBS sometime in 2007.
[edit] Storm of the Century
In March 2001, John Bolaris was one of several meteorologists at WCAU (NBC10) in Philadelphia that predicted a "Storm of the Century".
During the week leading up to the storm, Bolaris urged viewers to stay home and make alternate arrangements for an impending Sunday storm that was to dump snowfall similar to the Blizzard of 1996 that hit Philadelphia. The storm never materialized and only resulted in a couple of inches of snow for the area. He even received death threats following that storm from viewers.
The 'storm that never was' is perhaps what John Bolaris is best known for in Philadelphia. In 2005, Bolaris was being interviewed on a Philadelphia radio station about his departure from the area. Bolaris said he had to leave because of that botched forecast, and it got so bizarre that one night at a Philadelphia bar a man walked up to him, began urinating on his leg and foot and yelled, "It doesn't look like snow!"
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