Not a Met to Be Found

A Phoenix-area viewer points out that Meredith’s KPHO/KTRK has 7 meteorologists on staff and not one of them was on the air Friday night or Saturday morning as monsoon storms hit the Phoenix metro area and other parts of the state.

It's not as if the storms were a surprise. They've been happening for days and were in the forecast.

The station’s meteorologists are:

April Warnecke
Ian Schwartz
Royal Norman
Paul Horton
Sean McLaughlin
Kim Quintero
Lauren Rainson

But with the monsoons hitting the area, Kim Powell (not a meteorologist) was the weather person on Friday night and Kylee Cruz (not a meteorologist) was the weather person on-air on Saturday morning.

The station’s newest Meteorologist, Lauren Rainson was at a baseball game watching fireworks.

“Phoenix only has weather activity a few days a year. You would think a meteorologist would be available to be on air for it,” said one viewer to FTVLive.

Hopefully, when Gray takes over the station, they will make sure shit like this doesn’t happen.

Hopefully.