June 13, 2024 • 40 mins
Boston TV weather power couple Matt and Danielle Noyes have given up the big screen to deliver the New England forecast exclusively online! They’ve created the "1Degree Outside Weather Network" and took the gamble after a 2023 poll indicated fewer than half of us get our weather from TV. The Noyes’s join Dan to talk about their new venture!
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It's night Side, Dan Ray onWVZ Radio. Well, as I found
out many years ago. Yes,Virginia, there is life after television,
both news and weather, and livingproof of that as myself have been able
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to be here on WBZ Radio fora long time. We're just about to
start year eighteen here at Nightside,which has been such a fun fun ride
the way the number of people hada chance to meet over the years,
not only in television but in weather. About ten days ago, I was
at Zootopia along with my wife andmany other people, fundraiser for the Franklin
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Park Zoo and the Stone Zoo.It's called Zootopia Zoo, New England,
I guess is formally the name.And we were with Matt and Danielle Noyce,
who I'm sure many of you recognizedfrom their long careers. You're in
Boston and they are joining us tonight. There was a big article in the
Boston Globe today, and I'm notcribbing from the Globe. They will tell
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you we set this up a weekago. Boston TV Weather power couple jumps
to the smallest green. Welcome Danielleand welcome Matt. Welcome to Nightside.
How are you folks tonight thanking great, excellent, excellent. You guys both
sound great. You looked great.Matt was one of the MC's that night
with LaToya Edwards. They did agreat job, raised a lot of money
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for Zoo New England. Then wetalked a little bit and I said,
well, come on the show,let's talk about it. So you guys
have decided to leave television news onyour own. That's the exception most people,
they don't leave it on their own. But we won't keep Danielle off
via yet. She's still part timeworking with the NBC ten Boston at NCN
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But yours truly. Yeah, you'reright, Dan, you know, I
mean, you know, after twentyfour years in broadcast TV, twenty two
of them spent living the dream,literally living the dream in Boston, and
and it was time. It wastime. It was for a whole series
of reasons. It was time.And so far, so good, so
ection. Well, yeah, Imean Danielle I first met I met Danielle
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when I was We were together overat WBZ on soldiers Field Road and I
would see Danielle and we talk alittle bit and she was working weather.
Now, Danielle, you were workingat another couple of locations. I guess
correct. Yeah, so I wasactually at n ECN prior to coming to
WBZ, and then when I madethat switch over there, Matt and I
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were actually competing against each other inthe morning. And now I am freelancing
once again for Channel ten in Boston, just a few days a week when
they need me. Yeah, Idid that morning shift for eleven years,
so it's a it's a tough shift. And I guess that Matt worked into
your decision at least to sleep ina little bit. Now you get to
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sleep in I guess until four o'clockin the morning. So yeah, it
feels great. Let me tell youa big difference. But yeah, you
know what it is, Dan,We have a thirteen year old, we
have a seven year old just turnedseven, and we have a five year
old, and you know, youjust look at where your body is.
After in my case, twenty outof my twenty four years were spent on
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the early mornings, right, Andyou reach a point where you start to
lose a lot of your memory,to the point where you don't even remember
Christmas and conversations you had with familyor even who was there. Sometimes By
the time I left NBC, Iwas puffing on an inhaler four to six
nights a week just to breathe straight. Happy to say that two weeks after
stopping with the overnight shift, Iwas done with Ian Haaler. Haven't needed
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it sent so, I mean,it just takes a toll on the body
when you do it to that manyyears, So that was definitely a part
of it, isn't coll I didit for eleven when my son turned I
guess was eight. Shelby Scott gaveup the early morning shift and I went
in and lobbied for it, andmy then news director at the time,
Peter Brown, was kind enough toreluctantly. I was working the six and
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eleven at night, so it wasa huge shift, but gave me a
chance to do coach sports, whichyou're going to be able to do with
your kids, I'm sure you know. I mean, that's that's part of
it. You can be there fortheir games and if you want to coach,
I can member nights being on theice at ten o'clock at night in
the in the Natick suburban arena,you know, passing pucks and the kids
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for drills and realizing I got toget up at quarter of three, so
I ident. So you guys nowhave not left the weather business. You've
come up with this new concept calledone degree outside. Tell us, Matt
or Danielle, whoever wants to startoff, How did this this idea come
to pass? Well, you know, the real driving kind of motivation for
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this is our viewers. And Ireally mean that sincerely, which is to
say that both Danielle and I wegrew up around here. Danielle grew up
in Weymouth, I grew up inHaveril, and we just absolutely loved the
Boston area. And so what thatmeans is we're already living our dream doing
what we're doing on TV in Boston, doing the weather. And then we
looked at this past year. Therewas a Yugov poll that came out and
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it showed that for the first timeever, less than half of people get
their weather information from local television todrop to forty seven percent. That's never
happened before. In fact, theother fifty three percent like to get their
weather information from a weather app andDan, it goes a little bit deeper
than that. Forget that busy radioACU Weather. I'm sure we have a
lot of Yeah, that was agiven, Yeah, that was by default.
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That was just one hundred percent rightexactly. But out of that majority
that prefers an app, you know, only thirty four percent said they actually
find apps to be very accurate.So we looked at this and said,
we've got a problem here, right, which is that if you want to
get the weather out to the mostpeople, you have to do it digital
first. And at the same time, there's there's a real need for accuracy
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there. So we looked at thatarena and said, you know what,
if there's any place that you're goingto take a gamble and that you're going
to bet on yourself and you're goingto bet on the fact that you're still
going to do the best service foryour viewers that you possibly can right now,
it would be digital. And that'show this idea was born. So
where does the name come from?One one degree outside sounds like a rock
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equipped to me. I mean ifyou said to me you want to go
to a one degree outside concert andsay, okay, I'll find siostly to.
It's so funny because you know,when we were kind of trying to
think up what meme would really encompassNew England weather. The reason we landed
on this one was twofold one.Look, Danielle and I love to give
the most accurate forecast possible. WhenI was at NBC, I was proud
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to lead our team to several yearsin a row of most accurate forecast,
right. And so you look atthis and say, okay, well,
we know that we want to beaccurate, but dan we also are humble
enough to know that you're not goingto be perfect every time. Sometimes you're
gonna be one degree outside. Andon top of that, we looked and
said, you know what, wherewhy are we here in New England,
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as lifelong New Englanders? Why dowe care so much about the weather.
Because so much of what we dois outside in our beautiful landscape, from
the beaches to the mountains and everywherein between. So much of what we
do that drives New England weather isabout being outside. So with those two
things together, we said, that'sthat's it right there. One degree outside.
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Well, when I thought about it, I thought, well, maybe
it's not a rock group. Maybeit's the average temperature in January here in
New England one degree outside. Butso that could work as well, anyway,
my guest a Matt and Danielle.Noise noise noise. Uh. It's
it's spelled nye s, but it'spronounced noise uh. And we're gonna make
sure we get it right correct.It's funny. I used to uh when
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I was when I was a kidand I would run for school office,
I would say, this year,vote no and yes, vote no yes,
so you can want you know,that's good. That's a good slogan.
You could become a professional politician.That's the way most of them folks.
You can run for congress. Now, oh man, you may have
life after weather anyway. Uh,if you'd like to talk with Matt and
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Danielle and ask I'm going to askthem more about who they're talking audiences,
how they are going to not onlyget this project off the ground, it's
well off the ground, but keepit up in the air. We'll get
to all of that in your phonecall six one seven thirty six one seven
nine thirty. My name is DanRay. This is night Side on WBZ,
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Boston's news radio WBZ ten thirty onthe AM AM dial back with Matt
and Danielle and your calls right afterthis Now back to Dan Ray live from
the Window World Nights Side Studios onWBZ News Radio. My guests Matt and
Danielle Nice. They are a asthe Boston Globe says today, at TV
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weather power couple, but they're offTV and they're doing their own thing here
one degree outside. So before weget to phone calls very quickly, who's
the target audience who's going to supportyou in this endeavor? Well, you
know what I mean. Bottom lineis that New England is at large really
because what we're looking at is rightnow, we're talking about anybody who's got
an interest in getting good, accurateweather information. And so when we look
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at this, we say, it'sall ages, it's all demographics, it's
everybody, because we all rely onNew England weather information having to be the
best impossibly could be. So honestly, this is and I gotta tell you,
Dan, this is exactly why we'vemade our app completely free. A
lot of people say, hey,so, how much you charge them with
this thing? Nothing? No,of course, at some point we've got
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to figure out how we're gonna makemoney. It keeps this lovely dream going.
But nonetheless, the point is wewant everybody to have access to the
best weather information possible, and wehope that's what we're bringing anyway, So
are you going to support it withsome advertising? I assume, I mean
you're not doing this just for theI mean, you may be doing it
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for the fun of it, butyou also do have to table Danielle.
Come on, I think Matt woulddo it for Danielle. So how are
you going to make some money atthat point? Listen, we we both
like him in the weather information andthat's our enjoyment here to be able to
give it. But yes, ideallywe would love to get some advertisers on
board. We have a lot ofdifferent you know, Matt's so smart,
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he got he got his business certificate, He's got all the business plan and
models, and you know what we'regon. We're gonna go for this thing
and have several different ways. Butadvertising, I'm sure definitely an option and
ultimately may become sub subscription based serviceor no where is that out of the
question. Well, you know,it's funny you say that, because we've
got a few different prongs of whatwe're doing here. So Dan, one
part of it is what everybody's seenso far, which is the free public
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facing forecast. And you know,in our first month May, it was
our inaugural month, we had fivehundred and seventy thousand page views from over
one hundred and forty five thousand visitsto the site. So we don't think
there's going to be any problem withgetting sponsors on board and folks who really
want to get their brand out there. But the other two prongs of what
we're doing include private forecasts and that'sfor facilities, colleges, universities, but
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also a little bit of a twiston this, right, Danielle, why
don't you tell me a little bitmore about the private forecast with a twist
that we're doing. So the twistwould be Dan adding in a video component
to it. Right, So thinkabout you know, like what Matt was
saying, everybody needs the weather,right, Businesses need weather to make informed
decisions and better decisions to save money. And so we can, you know,
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have the ability to have the mostaccurate forecast with the weather data aspect
and then also be able to providethese personalized and tailored video forecasts for specific
businesses so they can make the bestdecisions possible. All right, All sounds
great, let's get some phone callsgoing. Here're going to go to Patty
in Wellesley. Hey, Patty,welcome back. How are you hi?
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Dan? How are you? Couldn'tbe better? Once I hear your voice,
Patty? Your own with Matt andDanielle, go right ahead. But
don are you gonna feel jealous ifI take my attention to them? Because
they are very important to me?Because one day I don't know when it
was? I kept saying, where'sMatt? Where's Matt? How do I
know what to wear to the busstop? Even though I don't go to
the bus stop, how do Iknow what to where it was? And
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it just hasn't been the same match. And then one day I saw Danielle
and I saw no yes, andI was like, wait a minute,
are they brother in sid and youup? No, that's illegal. That's
illegal in Massachusetts. Lawyer, youcould trust me. I didn't know they
were married. I mean, talkabout a power couple. Okay, so
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Don and his wife are a powercouple. My husband and I could be
a power couple. Not so sure, still out, But Don, Matt
and Danielle I think are the ratherpower couple. And I will tune my
ear to you. Congratulations, butI'm not gonna lie. It was heartbreaking
when week after week I thought youwere just on a family trip and then
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I you know, up deeper andsaid, oh, they left, and
I'm not gonna lie you. Wasa very sad day on the TV for
me. You know, we've heardthat a lot from folks saying we're saying
we miss you, we miss you. You know we're gonna miss you.
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And what we've been saying is,you know what you don't have to do.
As a matter of fact, we'recloser than we've ever been. You
you put that phone on, youmake sure you've got our app, and
you've got us there anytime you wantus. Patty, Absolutely, we're all
yours. Well, you know youtalk about having sort of a three prong
approach. Here, let's add afourth prong. Maybe maybe Matt you could
show up on Patty's doorstep at anappointed hour on certain mornings and give her
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the personalized forecast. That could work. It's a great idea under to have
a little bit a warning because inthe morning, you know, there's a
face that needs to be put on. You understand, Danielle, You catch
her, Patty, you got toput the faith on y Danielle. All
right, Daddy, I wanted towish you congratulations as you all your listeners
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and Dan especially. We've talked aboutthis before. One door closes and the
window opens much wider, and blessyou too. I'll have to find you,
but I didn't know. Of course, I was the last to know
that you took off and sword,and I can't wait to watch your magic
and hear your news. And don'tworry if you're not one hundred percent,
it's fine with me. I'll takeyour weather, whether it's accurate or not.
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You'll still be my West. ThanksDad, delightful, Thank you,
Patty, thank you so much.I really you guys are an important part
of the day. So thank youDan for letting me on, and bless
you three for such a great nighttime with Dan. Ray all right,
Patty, thank you very much.And we will give the website a couple
of times in the next half hoursso you'll be able to know exactly how
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to get in touch. Okay,thanks so much, Patty. Always great
to hear your first Ye know thatright, Okay, I know that deep
in my heart. Thank you,Patty. I love that. Patty's one
of my most loyal listeners, asis Gene from Ever Gene don't want to
change you. How are you?You're on with Matt and Danielle. Thank
thank you very much so Matt andDanielle. I'm I've been a big fan
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for years, though you didn't knowit. Thank you, Thank You're welcome.
Here's the thing. I always founda really great forecast, Matt.
I would look because I well,I have a condition that I have to
sleep late. I can't get upat seven or six in the morning,
so when I get up later,I would pull you up on the web
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and I could see everything, especiallyif they were predicting a storm or something.
And I want to keep in touchwith the weather. I loved your
Matt's notes. They were great.You always had those notes and I could
take a picture of it with mycamera so I wouldn't have to forget it.
And minutes what was that that hesaid? It really is helpful.
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I'm a brain injury survivor and Ineed things like that, and that it
was extremely helpful to me. ButI miss I miss seeing it, I
miss having it at my fingertips whenI need it. And I'm are you're
going to have a website at all. That's what I was wondering. Apps.
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Yeah, absolutely, yeah, Actuallyit's it's it's as easy as this.
You're ready, Gene, It's it'sit's the number one degree outside dot
com, one degree outside dot com. And actually, here's the cool part.
If you go to that website rightnow, one degree outside dot com,
you're going to see a list ofposts right there, right under the
banner, you see a picture ofDanielle and I and as listen posts.
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And guess what one of those postsevery single morning is called Nois's notes,
and noises on exactly what you miss. You're going to click on that.
You're gonna be able to watch thatthose notes. You can you don't even
have to take the picture anymore becausenow you can just hit pot. You
can just watch it right there onthe tree as long as you need it.
Fantastic, And you know what theneat thing about it, Gene,
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is now it's not just me.Right before it was Matt's memo, but
now it's Noise's notes because Danielle givesthem two. So today she gave the
notes for the day, and somedays I did. She gets you get
both of us which is good becauseshe's got a much better personality and she's
much better. It's just I wasjust you see us. But that's great.
I really appreciate it, and I'mglad to know that because I've been
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kind of lost lately, you know, kind of lost lately with the information,
and I really need it kind of. I'm a family can't take them
also, which is my time isshort and my life is spastic as your
days are busy, uh connotation,Gee, your days are busy. I
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mean when your family can't take andeverything else, there's just no time,
you know, trying to keep everythingon schedule. And I was just trying
to help you out there. Gee. I don't want I don't want to
lose you here. Okay, thankyou, Thanks Gan, Thank you very
much. Thank you for having Mattand Danielle on and I appreciate talking with
you and that information is really abig help for me on a daily basis.
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So thank you so much. Thanksthanks for the world. Thanks thank
you so much. I know,all right, we're going to take a
quick break. My guest, Mattand Danielle noise. We have much more
to our noise. I've got toget it right. Noise. You're gonna
much more to talk about it.If you'd like to join the conversation and
give us a call at six oneseven two five four ten thirty or six
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one seven nine three one ten thirty. Uh, let's just give that.
We will give this a couple ofmore times. The website is simply the
numeral one degree outside dot com isthat it I'm guessing here by right,
all right, all right, andpeople get all the information that they need.
And look, weather is important informationto you know, to everybody,
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particularly here in New England. Whatdo they say if you don't like the
weather here in New England, waita minute, it'll change. So that's
that's why it's really important as well, you folks stay right there. Our
audio is really good. Thank youboth very much for working with Rob to
get the audio squared away for thehour, and we'll come back with some
more phone calls. Six one seventhirty, six seven ninety. My name's
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Dan Ray. This is Nightside ofWBZ ten thirty and the Am dial,
Boston's news Radio. Come on rightback. You're on night Side with Dan
Ray on WBZ Boston's news Radio.We're talking with Matt and Danielle Noye.
They have found a new company.This is what two months old? Guys,
if I'm not mistaken, two threemonths old? Got it? Yes,
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you got it? And how longhad it been in the gestation fact?
How long had you been thinking aboutit? Very long? Yeah,
exactly. We kind of jumped intoit because that came off there at the
end of March and we kind ofApril. Of course, there was the
eclipse. There was that crazy snowstorms, were like, wow, we should
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we should get up and go in. Yeah, okay, let's get back
to phone calls. Join us,everybody if you'd like to ask a weather
question. Six one seven, two, five, four to ten thirty or
six one, seven, nine,three ten thirty. Larry down on the
Cape and Dennis Port. Larry,welcome back to Nightside. You're on with
Matt and Danielle. No. Iscre right ahead. It's a pleasure talking
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to you. I have a specificquestion to Cape Cord when I'm seventy five
years old. But I'm one ofthose ones that gets my weather on on
the apps, and yours is oneof them. I have several apps only
because my nickname is neurothek. LarryI'm an average cyclist and I look at
the weather and I plan all myriding around the weather. Did you say
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that's neurotic Larry. That's your nickname. Neurotic. That's not very litera Larry.
We could come up with something looneyLarry might be better. Go ahead
up legend. But here's my question, because if I watched the weather on
channel four or even on the listeningto the radio, you know it's not
specific to Cape Cod. So mywife and I we love the beach and
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we live in Dennisport, which isthe south side. So perfect example is
yesterday the winds were coming out ofthe south southwest at around fifteen eighteen miles
an hour. So to go toa south side beach, that wind is
whipping you in a face. SoI said to my wife, Hey,
let's go over to the north side. We'll go over to Mayflower Beach.
It's a beautiful beach. You can'tget in there in the summertime. I
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go over there, I was thinkingit would be a land breeze. It's
a north breeze coming off the ocean. What causes that? There's a weather
question for you. All right,that's a good one. Go ahead,
Yeah, you know, yeah,well you know what, it's either one
of us could. But once youdo it, when you set up these
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these circulations, the sebreeze circulations,the way these things developed, and what
you had yesterday was a classic exampleof this. All right, Larry,
So what happens is where the landheats up, because you're gonna gonna remember
the water's coolest time of year.Where the land heats up, your air
rises. We learn that basic stuffin elementary school, right, warm air
rise. So if you're warming theland and the air is rising, if
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you think about that, it createsa vacuum and the air's gonna rush in
and take the place of the airthat just rolls up into the sky.
So where's it rush in from.Well, on a cape, you've got
to strip of land that runs westto east. So the air is gonna
rush in from the north, comingin off Cape Cod Bay. It's gonna
rush in from the south, comingin off the water, and then they're
gonna go off into the sky.So what you get is you get this
circulation that sets up where the airkeeps going up over the land and then
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coming in off the water. Soyou go to the north side of the
cape and you got the wind offthe water. You go to the south
side of the cape, you gotthe wind off the water. But actually,
Larry, there is something about ourapp, and Daniel's gonna tell you
about it right now that makes ourapp a little bit different from others that
I think is going to fit yoursituation perfectly. I mean that Danielle's tell
about pinpointing the location with the appand what you can do with that.
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Yeah, So, Larry, it'sreally kind of cool. You can when
you open up the app, youcan type in your location at the top,
and then when you press on theside, you can say pinpoint.
You can literally zoom in to whateverspecific beach you want to your backyard,
to your front door, to MayflowerBeach. You can set separate locations specifically
for several spots that you want tobe and that data will be customized for
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those locations. Pinpoint accuracy in forecasting. Wow, as I do right,
Yeah, I do have several locations. I have Dennis Port, I have
East Dennis. Is all that allowsme to gay, I can pinpoint each
beach. Yes, yes, yes, if you look at that location that
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you've got saved there's three dots onthe right side in our app. Once
you go into your locations, tapthe three dots. There's something that says
pinpoint. You do that and you'llbe able to pinch and zoom and we
kid you kid you not here,Larry. You can put the pinpoint on
your favorite spot on your favorite beach, and then you can actually go in
hit the dots again and nickname itso you can say, oh, yeah,
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favorite mayflower spot, second favorite mayfloweryou could actually label. We did
this with fulls of lobster pots.We had them do it and they marked
their lobster pots as locations using thepinpoint and now they get pinpoint accuracy for
wind speed, wind direction, temperature, everything they need, even for their
lobster pots. So you absolutely cando it for your favorite beach location.
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You gotta be a mate. Yeah, I just found it. That's excellent
because what I was doing was Ilook at your weather rap. But then
the other one that I found,which is very accurate. There's actually an
app that wind surfers use. Yes, yeah, that one's very accurate with
wins. But then well we stayedover there and then the wind finally,
I don't know what made the windturn into the south and then it became
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a land breeze. Maybe by whatyou're saying is the temperature of the air
warmed up to just the right point, you know. So you're exactly right.
And one of the things Larry,we're really hoping that it'll make our
app a little bit different is youknow, the data. To your point,
you can get the data in alot of places. You get the
numbers anywhere. Our hope is havingthe most accurate pinpoint numbers and then at
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the top being able to watch ourvideo explaining what's going to happen to the
weather all throughout. We're hoping thatadds a context the folks go, hey,
this is more than just numbers.This is I get what's going to
happen now, and that's the hope. Anyway, Larry, that's great,
Thank you for that information. Theother thing I noticed is your app is
one of the only ones that givesthe fourteen day forecast. Yeah. Absolutely,
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yeah, you know what I gottasay. Danielle and I were on
the NCN team together back just priorto twenty ten when we launched the first
ten day in Boston, and sohere we are fourteen years later and we
said, you know what, thetechnology has arrived. We don't expect people
to think we're going to get itto the hour thirteen or fourteen days out
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when the rain is gonna start.But if we can tell you it'll be
warmer or colder than normal, betteror worse chance to raign than normal,
at least you can get a generalidea to plan your life. And I
think in New England that's really whatwe're looking for that far out anyway,
don't you agree? Yeah, appreciatethat. So you've got a lifetime user,
right, Yeah, thank you,Eric, Thank you for the call.
It's one of my loyal listeners andnight side thanks. I appreciating have
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a good one. Let me getone more in here before the break.
If you'd like to join the conversation, i'll get you in before ten.
But first we're going to go toSteve and Merrimack, New Hampshire. Steve,
you're on with Matt and Danielle Noye. Good. How are you everybody
all right? Teams for both ofgood. I watched you guys all the
time, you know, when youwere doing the network news. I just
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wanted to ask you what motivated youto go into meteorology, and also which
weather forecast are going all the wayback? Did you idolize? Well,
that's a great question. See soI will say I had a little bit
of a love for weather ever sinceI was a little kid, and I
also say my family did too.So I remember my grandparents loved the weather.
My parents loved the weather. Youknow, I shared a room with
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my sister growing up. I'd watchedthunderstorms out the skylight in Weymouth on the
South Shore, and then for me, Hurricane Bob in nineteen ninety one.
I remember as a little kid atthat point, I said to my parents,
can we go down to West GossaBeach. It just was amazing to
me that we could have a hurricanecoming out New England off the coast and
really in the northeast, and inNew England we are in the mecca for
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weather. So we went to thebeach. We watched, you know,
the waves come in, and ifyou're familiar with the South sure you know.
We were a little sheltered in westigotAt Beach, but the waves were
ripping in, the sand was whippingin and I just really felt the power
of Mother Nature at that point andkind of was hooked from from there.
I grew up watching you know,no cable TV grown up, but when
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I went to my friend's house isI'd say, oh, can I watch
the Weather Channel? And I kindof was hooked from there. Watched,
of course Barry Bourbank growing up,and Miss Michael's as well. So my
level weather was was, you know, from a young age, and I
know Matt's was too. Yeah,you know we're five years apart. Go
ahead, please not to date myself. But I used to watch Don Kent
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way back in the late sixties andearly seventies. Yeah. Don was a
great passionate He was a very passionateguy. I really loved him. I
watched, you know, I worked. I worked with Don Kent guys.
And the morning of the Blizzard ofseventy eight, we all ended up at
a hotel right next to the stationand the storm was at its height,
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and we had stayed up quite latebecause we didn't get in that night until
about midnight. And they called meabout four in the morning and said you
got to come over and anchor becauseJack Chase isn't going to be in this
morning. And I said, wait, a second, hold on here,
Jack Williams, he's down, He'sin another room. He's not answering his
phone. So I made the mistakeof answering my phone. I thought I
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was going to die. I walkedfrom the what then was in to the
WBZ. It was a white trulywhiteout conditions. There was the height of
the storm the Tuesday morning, gotinside and there was Don Kent. Don
had made it in from Weymouth,or maybe he had stayed overnight. And
so for the first time in mylife, I sat on the anchor chair
where Jack normally would be and coyou know, did the morning news with
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Don Kent there on whatever it wasFellow nineteen seventy eight. The big fun
was reading the no school announcements becauseI, you know, because I knew
how much joy I was bringing tothe hearts of children across New England if
the Stev's were working. So yeah, No, Don was a class act.
Jack Chase was a class act aswell. Uh And and you know,
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obviously they were dominant in the fiftiesand sixties and into the seventies they
were there were institutions in this town. And you know, again I had
the opportunity to work with both ofthem, and so I go back a
little lot earlier than than Danielle andMatt. But uh, were there other
weather people that each of you admiredas you were growing up. I know
that Danielle had missed Yeah, missMichaels, who I knew very well,
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was in a sweet person. AndMary Burbanks a great guy. Uh.
Any of you around with what wasworking at four? Yeah? For me,
it was Harvey Leonard h You know, because I got to tell you
I had I had, I hadasked all of the stations. I also
didn't have cable growing up and thenended up building a career in a cable
station. But I had asked allthe stations for for an internship. And
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uh, and you know, Harveynot only was kind enough to take me
in and show me around the studio, but then when I reached college,
he reached out to me. Hefound me and said, hey, remember
you wanted that internship. I gottawaiting for you. And so began a
friendship that to this day still goesstrong. I learned so much from Harvey,
not just about how to be agreat forecaster, but how to be
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a great guy. He came alongin a beautiful point in life where he
really taught me that nice guys don'thave to finish last. The nice guys
can still be nice and do well. And so I continue to learn new
lessons from Harvey all the time.Well, that's a great story. That
is a great story. I neverhad the autortunity to work with Harvey,
but I've heard others say very similarthings about him. Steven Mary mc new
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Hampshire, you asked some great questions. Thank you so much for you One
quick, quick, one, goahead. Do you think we're gonna We're
gonna. We're gonna see another Februaryof twenty fifteen sequence of storms like that
particular month. We will any willnow, will it? You know?
Will it be this winter? Idon't know, but we will, And
I'll tell you exactly why. Ina nutshell, look the way that the
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climate is changed. We are nowin a position where you've taken what used
to be a big dome of coldby the North Pole, and every year
you break it into fragments. Andso what happens is these little fragments,
these bubbles are cold there. Insteadof a big dome of it, these
little bubbles of cold there get stuck, and because you've got warm of the
normal conditions outside of that, youget a big cold warm clash, and
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it snows again and again and againin the same place. That's what happened
to us in twenty fifteen, It'swhat happened to Buffalo two winters ago,
and is absolutely going to happen tous again. But you see what happens
when it doesn't. We end upwith what hardly any snow compared to what
we are used to warm of thenormal conditions, right, And that is
all just part of kind of thenew normal. You're either going to get
sought or more often than not,you've gotta be just outside of that,
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and you're gonna end up missing outon it. Of course, that happens
to Buffalo every winter. I thinkit starts late August the year before we
got creamed that that winter of twentyfourteen fifteen, it had not snowed at
all until about the middle of January, and then it didn't stop snowing.
The year before, it had allstruck the mid Atlantic States week after weekend
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after weekend, and it just movednorth the following year. It was incredible
anyone who was around there and remembersthat one. Steve, great questions,
Man, you should be a talkshow host. Thanks man, talk soon.
Thanks Peve. I love you guys, Thank you, Thanks very much,
Steve. I appreciate that a wholelot. Six, one, seven,
two, four, ten thirty sixone seven, nine three one ten
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thirty. If you want to givea quick call to try to get two
or three folks in between now andthe end of the hour, we will
be switching topics and we'll be talkingabout the arrests of these potential suspected terrorists
from one of the former Soviet statesover there. This is getting to be
scary stuff. We'll talk about thatafter the ten. We're talking about weather,
something that everybody talks about in NewEngland. I once was told by
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a television consultant many years ago thata certain percentage of people really a sports
fans, but it's not a hugepercentage, but everybody. Everybody wants to
watch the weather, and of coursehere on Channel four we have a key
weather meteorologists and now you can youcan also can can check in with one
degree outside. We'll give all thatwebsite information and take a couple more calls
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between. Now at ten o'clock,we take a quick break. Coming right
back on Nightside. My name isDan Ray, the host of Nightside here
on WBZ ten thirty am, Boston'snews radio. Now back to Dan Ray,
live from the window World nights SideStudios on WBZ the news Radio.
My guest. Final segment coming upMatt and Danielle Noice. They are the
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founders former well known weather broadcasters ontelevision here in the Greater Boston area of
one degree outside and we're going togo to Tom in Rhode Island. Tom,
you were in next on Nightside withMatt and Danielle. Go right ahead,
Tom, Well, where's Tom idea? We all right? You know
what. I forgot to hit thebut that was my mistake. Tom.
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Thanks for the backup. I'll goright ahead, Tom. Sorry. I
was wondering where the heck he wentdown? Man, And I was wondering.
All of a sudden you were gone. I turned on and you were
gone, and I didn't know whereyou went. No, I'm here,
but you shot that. Dan mightknow this quick. Do you remember the
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famous quote that Don Kent said aboutthe Blizzard of seventy eight. I actually
was born in seventy nine, SoI wasn't around it here mis the hell
of a storm, Matt. Itwas a hell of a storm, I
know, Dan, Do you remember? Do you remember? Dan? No?
I don't. What did he say? Well, he was the only
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one, if you remember correctly,he was the only one that forecast that
the storm was going to hit usand hit us hard. You remember,
well, I think Bruce Sweagler probablywould have an argument with you on that.
But let's go right ahead. Brucehas passed on, so I got
to defend Bruce's honor as well.I think that Bruce always claimed that he
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had he saw it as well.But what did But Don certainly started.
So what did n say? Donsaid, after everybody else was calm for
pot the storm was going to goby, and they were going to get
Botley cloudy, And after the stormand we were buried up to our up
to our waist and snow, thecors was stuck everywhere. Don Kent went
on to stid right into the cameraand says, what do you folks think
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of that? Thirty six inches ofPotley cloudy? Yeah? Don was good.
You know, Don didn't have alot of the weather instrumentation that folks
have today. And he had achalk blackboard, and UH had a bucket
of water and a sponge and hewould erased the board himself and he'd be
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sitting there at eleven o'clock in thein the morning drawing all of the high
pressures and the low pressures, etcetera. And it was a kind of
old school, but he was aHe was a great New Englander, that's
for sure. I used to getused to have. He used to have
the microphone hanging around his neck bya cord, and the cord was grouped
dragon behind him as he walked around. That's a class act. He's an
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absolute class act. Tom, thanksvery much for reminding us very much.
I like you about that. Thatapp one degree dot one degree off dot
com. I'm gonna what one degreeoutside, one degree outside dot com,
one degree outside dot com. Havea great night. Congratulations, guys,
thank you so much from you.Well, congratulations to you folks for for
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striking out on your own. I'msure it's going to be a great success.
Let's just wrap it up here,Uh, and you guys can can
make a little pitch for people,Matt, you or Daniel Danielle set us
up with the make sure we're correctwhere people are going to go to find
you. What's the website? Yes, so website is the number one degree
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outside dot com. And then ifyou're looking for the app on iOS,
you can just search in the appstore. You can search noises one degree
outside whether will pop up, orif you just go to our website.
Right at the top on the righthand side, there's a link it says
get for Apple and get on GooglePlay, so you can click those links
to and be able to download theapp. Again. It's for free.
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And you know all of our weathervideos and information is that's kind of our
clearing house to our website for allthe weather information. And I gotta say,
Dan, you know it is justsuch a pleasure to be on with
you. I am a lifelong fanof yours my whole career. I have
admired you and watch you. Iknow you and Danielle had a chance to
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work together for years and see eachother, and I never had that pleasure.
And I just I can't thank youenough for sharing your night with us
and letting us be a part ofthis tonight. It's been such a pleasure
to be on with you tonight.Well, you've done a great job for
Utopia for Zoo New England over theyears. And I remember, you know,
seeing Danielle. I was out ofTV, I was in radio at
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that point, and I was saying, gee, I love her first name.
You know, she's got a greatfirst name, but a couple of
extra letters and all that, butuh, she's always very nice, very
very and uh. Obviously you guysare a very match, you know,
made and made in weather if youwill. And I think you've got a
great success and I wish all thebest of luck and let's keep in touch.
Okay, we'll see you certainly atUtopia a year from now, that's
for sure. That sounds Greatne,thank you so much. We're both so
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vague. Well, thanks to allyour listeners too. We really appreciate the
sport. It's one our pleasure.And when I mentioned Utopia, I have
to mention the great job that JohnLenihan does at the Franklin Park and at
the Stone Zoo. She appreciates whatyou and LaToya have done over the years
to to help raise money at thatauction every year. It's such a great
event. Thanks so much, guys. We will we'll hopefully see each other
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on the circuit between now and nextyear. Thank you very much, have
a great right Bye bye, Danielle. By Matt. All right, we
come back. We're going to talkabout a more difficult subject, which is
the arrest of some terrorists. Andthis is this augurs does not argue well
necessarily, so keep that in mindas we move into the next hour.
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We're going to talk about the terroristand expert right after the ten o'clock moves
here on night Side
It's night Side, Dan Ray onWVZ Radio. Well, as I found
out many years ago. Yes,Virginia, there is life after television,
both news and weather, and livingproof of that as myself have been able
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to be here on WBZ Radio fora long time. We're just about to
start year eighteen here at Nightside,which has been such a fun fun ride
the way the number of people hada chance to meet over the years,
not only in television but in weather. About ten days ago, I was
at Zootopia along with my wife andmany other people, fundraiser for the Franklin
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Park Zoo and the Stone Zoo.It's called Zootopia Zoo, New England,
I guess is formally the name.And we were with Matt and Danielle Noyce,
who I'm sure many of you recognizedfrom their long careers. You're in
Boston and they are joining us tonight. There was a big article in the
Boston Globe today, and I'm notcribbing from the Globe. They will tell
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you we set this up a weekago. Boston TV Weather power couple jumps
to the smallest green. Welcome Danielleand welcome Matt. Welcome to Nightside.
How are you folks tonight thanking great, excellent, excellent. You guys both
sound great. You looked great.Matt was one of the MC's that night
with LaToya Edwards. They did agreat job, raised a lot of money
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for Zoo New England. Then wetalked a little bit and I said,
well, come on the show,let's talk about it. So you guys
have decided to leave television news onyour own. That's the exception most people,
they don't leave it on their own. But we won't keep Danielle off
via yet. She's still part timeworking with the NBC ten Boston at NCN
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But yours truly. Yeah, you'reright, Dan, you know, I
mean, you know, after twentyfour years in broadcast TV, twenty two
of them spent living the dream,literally living the dream in Boston, and
and it was time. It wastime. It was for a whole series
of reasons. It was time.And so far, so good, so
ection. Well, yeah, Imean Danielle I first met I met Danielle
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when I was We were together overat WBZ on soldiers Field Road and I
would see Danielle and we talk alittle bit and she was working weather.
Now, Danielle, you were workingat another couple of locations. I guess
correct. Yeah, so I wasactually at n ECN prior to coming to
WBZ, and then when I madethat switch over there, Matt and I
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were actually competing against each other inthe morning. And now I am freelancing
once again for Channel ten in Boston, just a few days a week when
they need me. Yeah, Idid that morning shift for eleven years,
so it's a it's a tough shift. And I guess that Matt worked into
your decision at least to sleep ina little bit. Now you get to
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sleep in I guess until four o'clockin the morning. So yeah, it
feels great. Let me tell youa big difference. But yeah, you
know what it is, Dan,We have a thirteen year old, we
have a seven year old just turnedseven, and we have a five year
old, and you know, youjust look at where your body is.
After in my case, twenty outof my twenty four years were spent on
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the early mornings, right, Andyou reach a point where you start to
lose a lot of your memory,to the point where you don't even remember
Christmas and conversations you had with familyor even who was there. Sometimes By
the time I left NBC, Iwas puffing on an inhaler four to six
nights a week just to breathe straight. Happy to say that two weeks after
stopping with the overnight shift, Iwas done with Ian Haaler. Haven't needed
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it sent so, I mean,it just takes a toll on the body
when you do it to that manyyears, So that was definitely a part
of it, isn't coll I didit for eleven when my son turned I
guess was eight. Shelby Scott gaveup the early morning shift and I went
in and lobbied for it, andmy then news director at the time,
Peter Brown, was kind enough toreluctantly. I was working the six and
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eleven at night, so it wasa huge shift, but gave me a
chance to do coach sports, whichyou're going to be able to do with
your kids, I'm sure you know. I mean, that's that's part of
it. You can be there fortheir games and if you want to coach,
I can member nights being on theice at ten o'clock at night in
the in the Natick suburban arena,you know, passing pucks and the kids
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for drills and realizing I got toget up at quarter of three, so
I ident. So you guys nowhave not left the weather business. You've
come up with this new concept calledone degree outside. Tell us, Matt
or Danielle, whoever wants to startoff, How did this this idea come
to pass? Well, you know, the real driving kind of motivation for
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this is our viewers. And Ireally mean that sincerely, which is to
say that both Danielle and I wegrew up around here. Danielle grew up
in Weymouth, I grew up inHaveril, and we just absolutely loved the
Boston area. And so what thatmeans is we're already living our dream doing
what we're doing on TV in Boston, doing the weather. And then we
looked at this past year. Therewas a Yugov poll that came out and
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it showed that for the first timeever, less than half of people get
their weather information from local television todrop to forty seven percent. That's never
happened before. In fact, theother fifty three percent like to get their
weather information from a weather app andDan, it goes a little bit deeper
than that. Forget that busy radioACU Weather. I'm sure we have a
lot of Yeah, that was agiven, Yeah, that was by default.
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That was just one hundred percent rightexactly. But out of that majority
that prefers an app, you know, only thirty four percent said they actually
find apps to be very accurate.So we looked at this and said,
we've got a problem here, right, which is that if you want to
get the weather out to the mostpeople, you have to do it digital
first. And at the same time, there's there's a real need for accuracy
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there. So we looked at thatarena and said, you know what,
if there's any place that you're goingto take a gamble and that you're going
to bet on yourself and you're goingto bet on the fact that you're still
going to do the best service foryour viewers that you possibly can right now,
it would be digital. And that'show this idea was born. So
where does the name come from?One one degree outside sounds like a rock
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equipped to me. I mean ifyou said to me you want to go
to a one degree outside concert andsay, okay, I'll find siostly to.
It's so funny because you know,when we were kind of trying to
think up what meme would really encompassNew England weather. The reason we landed
on this one was twofold one.Look, Danielle and I love to give
the most accurate forecast possible. WhenI was at NBC, I was proud
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to lead our team to several yearsin a row of most accurate forecast,
right. And so you look atthis and say, okay, well,
we know that we want to beaccurate, but dan we also are humble
enough to know that you're not goingto be perfect every time. Sometimes you're
gonna be one degree outside. Andon top of that, we looked and
said, you know what, wherewhy are we here in New England,
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as lifelong New Englanders? Why dowe care so much about the weather.
Because so much of what we dois outside in our beautiful landscape, from
the beaches to the mountains and everywherein between. So much of what we
do that drives New England weather isabout being outside. So with those two
things together, we said, that'sthat's it right there. One degree outside.
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Well, when I thought about it, I thought, well, maybe
it's not a rock group. Maybeit's the average temperature in January here in
New England one degree outside. Butso that could work as well, anyway,
my guest a Matt and Danielle.Noise noise noise. Uh. It's
it's spelled nye s, but it'spronounced noise uh. And we're gonna make
sure we get it right correct.It's funny. I used to uh when
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I was when I was a kidand I would run for school office,
I would say, this year,vote no and yes, vote no yes,
so you can want you know,that's good. That's a good slogan.
You could become a professional politician.That's the way most of them folks.
You can run for congress. Now, oh man, you may have
life after weather anyway. Uh,if you'd like to talk with Matt and
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Danielle and ask I'm going to askthem more about who they're talking audiences,
how they are going to not onlyget this project off the ground, it's
well off the ground, but keepit up in the air. We'll get
to all of that in your phonecall six one seven thirty six one seven
nine thirty. My name is DanRay. This is night Side on WBZ,
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Boston's news radio WBZ ten thirty onthe AM AM dial back with Matt
and Danielle and your calls right afterthis Now back to Dan Ray live from
the Window World Nights Side Studios onWBZ News Radio. My guests Matt and
Danielle Nice. They are a asthe Boston Globe says today, at TV
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weather power couple, but they're offTV and they're doing their own thing here
one degree outside. So before weget to phone calls very quickly, who's
the target audience who's going to supportyou in this endeavor? Well, you
know what I mean. Bottom lineis that New England is at large really
because what we're looking at is rightnow, we're talking about anybody who's got
an interest in getting good, accurateweather information. And so when we look
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at this, we say, it'sall ages, it's all demographics, it's
everybody, because we all rely onNew England weather information having to be the
best impossibly could be. So honestly, this is and I gotta tell you,
Dan, this is exactly why we'vemade our app completely free. A
lot of people say, hey,so, how much you charge them with
this thing? Nothing? No,of course, at some point we've got
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to figure out how we're gonna makemoney. It keeps this lovely dream going.
But nonetheless, the point is wewant everybody to have access to the
best weather information possible, and wehope that's what we're bringing anyway, So
are you going to support it withsome advertising? I assume, I mean
you're not doing this just for theI mean, you may be doing it
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for the fun of it, butyou also do have to table Danielle.
Come on, I think Matt woulddo it for Danielle. So how are
you going to make some money atthat point? Listen, we we both
like him in the weather information andthat's our enjoyment here to be able to
give it. But yes, ideallywe would love to get some advertisers on
board. We have a lot ofdifferent you know, Matt's so smart,
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he got he got his business certificate, He's got all the business plan and
models, and you know what we'regon. We're gonna go for this thing
and have several different ways. Butadvertising, I'm sure definitely an option and
ultimately may become sub subscription based serviceor no where is that out of the
question. Well, you know,it's funny you say that, because we've
got a few different prongs of whatwe're doing here. So Dan, one
part of it is what everybody's seenso far, which is the free public
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facing forecast. And you know,in our first month May, it was
our inaugural month, we had fivehundred and seventy thousand page views from over
one hundred and forty five thousand visitsto the site. So we don't think
there's going to be any problem withgetting sponsors on board and folks who really
want to get their brand out there. But the other two prongs of what
we're doing include private forecasts and that'sfor facilities, colleges, universities, but
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also a little bit of a twiston this, right, Danielle, why
don't you tell me a little bitmore about the private forecast with a twist
that we're doing. So the twistwould be Dan adding in a video component
to it. Right, So thinkabout you know, like what Matt was
saying, everybody needs the weather,right, Businesses need weather to make informed
decisions and better decisions to save money. And so we can, you know,
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have the ability to have the mostaccurate forecast with the weather data aspect
and then also be able to providethese personalized and tailored video forecasts for specific
businesses so they can make the bestdecisions possible. All right, All sounds
great, let's get some phone callsgoing. Here're going to go to Patty
in Wellesley. Hey, Patty,welcome back. How are you hi?
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Dan? How are you? Couldn'tbe better? Once I hear your voice,
Patty? Your own with Matt andDanielle, go right ahead. But
don are you gonna feel jealous ifI take my attention to them? Because
they are very important to me?Because one day I don't know when it
was? I kept saying, where'sMatt? Where's Matt? How do I
know what to wear to the busstop? Even though I don't go to
the bus stop, how do Iknow what to where it was? And
(12:22):
it just hasn't been the same match. And then one day I saw Danielle
and I saw no yes, andI was like, wait a minute,
are they brother in sid and youup? No, that's illegal. That's
illegal in Massachusetts. Lawyer, youcould trust me. I didn't know they
were married. I mean, talkabout a power couple. Okay, so
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Don and his wife are a powercouple. My husband and I could be
a power couple. Not so sure, still out, But Don, Matt
and Danielle I think are the ratherpower couple. And I will tune my
ear to you. Congratulations, butI'm not gonna lie. It was heartbreaking
when week after week I thought youwere just on a family trip and then
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I you know, up deeper andsaid, oh, they left, and
I'm not gonna lie you. Wasa very sad day on the TV for
me. You know, we've heardthat a lot from folks saying we're saying
we miss you, we miss you. You know we're gonna miss you.
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And what we've been saying is,you know what you don't have to do.
As a matter of fact, we'recloser than we've ever been. You
you put that phone on, youmake sure you've got our app, and
you've got us there anytime you wantus. Patty, Absolutely, we're all
yours. Well, you know youtalk about having sort of a three prong
approach. Here, let's add afourth prong. Maybe maybe Matt you could
show up on Patty's doorstep at anappointed hour on certain mornings and give her
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the personalized forecast. That could work. It's a great idea under to have
a little bit a warning because inthe morning, you know, there's a
face that needs to be put on. You understand, Danielle, You catch
her, Patty, you got toput the faith on y Danielle. All
right, Daddy, I wanted towish you congratulations as you all your listeners
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and Dan especially. We've talked aboutthis before. One door closes and the
window opens much wider, and blessyou too. I'll have to find you,
but I didn't know. Of course, I was the last to know
that you took off and sword,and I can't wait to watch your magic
and hear your news. And don'tworry if you're not one hundred percent,
it's fine with me. I'll takeyour weather, whether it's accurate or not.
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You'll still be my West. ThanksDad, delightful, Thank you,
Patty, thank you so much.I really you guys are an important part
of the day. So thank youDan for letting me on, and bless
you three for such a great nighttime with Dan. Ray all right,
Patty, thank you very much.And we will give the website a couple
of times in the next half hoursso you'll be able to know exactly how
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to get in touch. Okay,thanks so much, Patty. Always great
to hear your first Ye know thatright, Okay, I know that deep
in my heart. Thank you,Patty. I love that. Patty's one
of my most loyal listeners, asis Gene from Ever Gene don't want to
change you. How are you?You're on with Matt and Danielle. Thank
thank you very much so Matt andDanielle. I'm I've been a big fan
(15:26):
for years, though you didn't knowit. Thank you, Thank You're welcome.
Here's the thing. I always founda really great forecast, Matt.
I would look because I well,I have a condition that I have to
sleep late. I can't get upat seven or six in the morning,
so when I get up later,I would pull you up on the web
(15:50):
and I could see everything, especiallyif they were predicting a storm or something.
And I want to keep in touchwith the weather. I loved your
Matt's notes. They were great.You always had those notes and I could
take a picture of it with mycamera so I wouldn't have to forget it.
And minutes what was that that hesaid? It really is helpful.
(16:11):
I'm a brain injury survivor and Ineed things like that, and that it
was extremely helpful to me. ButI miss I miss seeing it, I
miss having it at my fingertips whenI need it. And I'm are you're
going to have a website at all. That's what I was wondering. Apps.
(16:32):
Yeah, absolutely, yeah, Actuallyit's it's it's as easy as this.
You're ready, Gene, It's it'sit's the number one degree outside dot
com, one degree outside dot com. And actually, here's the cool part.
If you go to that website rightnow, one degree outside dot com,
you're going to see a list ofposts right there, right under the
banner, you see a picture ofDanielle and I and as listen posts.
(16:53):
And guess what one of those postsevery single morning is called Nois's notes,
and noises on exactly what you miss. You're going to click on that.
You're gonna be able to watch thatthose notes. You can you don't even
have to take the picture anymore becausenow you can just hit pot. You
can just watch it right there onthe tree as long as you need it.
Fantastic, And you know what theneat thing about it, Gene,
(17:17):
is now it's not just me.Right before it was Matt's memo, but
now it's Noise's notes because Danielle givesthem two. So today she gave the
notes for the day, and somedays I did. She gets you get
both of us which is good becauseshe's got a much better personality and she's
much better. It's just I wasjust you see us. But that's great.
I really appreciate it, and I'mglad to know that because I've been
(17:38):
kind of lost lately, you know, kind of lost lately with the information,
and I really need it kind of. I'm a family can't take them
also, which is my time isshort and my life is spastic as your
days are busy, uh connotation,Gee, your days are busy. I
(18:02):
mean when your family can't take andeverything else, there's just no time,
you know, trying to keep everythingon schedule. And I was just trying
to help you out there. Gee. I don't want I don't want to
lose you here. Okay, thankyou, Thanks Gan, Thank you very
much. Thank you for having Mattand Danielle on and I appreciate talking with
you and that information is really abig help for me on a daily basis.
(18:26):
So thank you so much. Thanksthanks for the world. Thanks thank
you so much. I know,all right, we're going to take a
quick break. My guest, Mattand Danielle noise. We have much more
to our noise. I've got toget it right. Noise. You're gonna
much more to talk about it.If you'd like to join the conversation and
give us a call at six oneseven two five four ten thirty or six
(18:49):
one seven nine three one ten thirty. Uh, let's just give that.
We will give this a couple ofmore times. The website is simply the
numeral one degree outside dot com isthat it I'm guessing here by right,
all right, all right, andpeople get all the information that they need.
And look, weather is important informationto you know, to everybody,
(19:11):
particularly here in New England. Whatdo they say if you don't like the
weather here in New England, waita minute, it'll change. So that's
that's why it's really important as well, you folks stay right there. Our
audio is really good. Thank youboth very much for working with Rob to
get the audio squared away for thehour, and we'll come back with some
more phone calls. Six one seventhirty, six seven ninety. My name's
(19:33):
Dan Ray. This is Nightside ofWBZ ten thirty and the Am dial,
Boston's news Radio. Come on rightback. You're on night Side with Dan
Ray on WBZ Boston's news Radio.We're talking with Matt and Danielle Noye.
They have found a new company.This is what two months old? Guys,
if I'm not mistaken, two threemonths old? Got it? Yes,
(19:56):
you got it? And how longhad it been in the gestation fact?
How long had you been thinking aboutit? Very long? Yeah,
exactly. We kind of jumped intoit because that came off there at the
end of March and we kind ofApril. Of course, there was the
eclipse. There was that crazy snowstorms, were like, wow, we should
(20:19):
we should get up and go in. Yeah, okay, let's get back
to phone calls. Join us,everybody if you'd like to ask a weather
question. Six one seven, two, five, four to ten thirty or
six one, seven, nine,three ten thirty. Larry down on the
Cape and Dennis Port. Larry,welcome back to Nightside. You're on with
Matt and Danielle. No. Iscre right ahead. It's a pleasure talking
(20:41):
to you. I have a specificquestion to Cape Cord when I'm seventy five
years old. But I'm one ofthose ones that gets my weather on on
the apps, and yours is oneof them. I have several apps only
because my nickname is neurothek. LarryI'm an average cyclist and I look at
the weather and I plan all myriding around the weather. Did you say
(21:03):
that's neurotic Larry. That's your nickname. Neurotic. That's not very litera Larry.
We could come up with something looneyLarry might be better. Go ahead
up legend. But here's my question, because if I watched the weather on
channel four or even on the listeningto the radio, you know it's not
specific to Cape Cod. So mywife and I we love the beach and
(21:29):
we live in Dennisport, which isthe south side. So perfect example is
yesterday the winds were coming out ofthe south southwest at around fifteen eighteen miles
an hour. So to go toa south side beach, that wind is
whipping you in a face. SoI said to my wife, Hey,
let's go over to the north side. We'll go over to Mayflower Beach.
It's a beautiful beach. You can'tget in there in the summertime. I
(21:52):
go over there, I was thinkingit would be a land breeze. It's
a north breeze coming off the ocean. What causes that? There's a weather
question for you. All right,that's a good one. Go ahead,
Yeah, you know, yeah,well you know what, it's either one
of us could. But once youdo it, when you set up these
(22:14):
these circulations, the sebreeze circulations,the way these things developed, and what
you had yesterday was a classic exampleof this. All right, Larry,
So what happens is where the landheats up, because you're gonna gonna remember
the water's coolest time of year.Where the land heats up, your air
rises. We learn that basic stuffin elementary school, right, warm air
rise. So if you're warming theland and the air is rising, if
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you think about that, it createsa vacuum and the air's gonna rush in
and take the place of the airthat just rolls up into the sky.
So where's it rush in from.Well, on a cape, you've got
to strip of land that runs westto east. So the air is gonna
rush in from the north, comingin off Cape Cod Bay. It's gonna
rush in from the south, comingin off the water, and then they're
gonna go off into the sky.So what you get is you get this
circulation that sets up where the airkeeps going up over the land and then
(23:00):
coming in off the water. Soyou go to the north side of the
cape and you got the wind offthe water. You go to the south
side of the cape, you gotthe wind off the water. But actually,
Larry, there is something about ourapp, and Daniel's gonna tell you
about it right now that makes ourapp a little bit different from others that
I think is going to fit yoursituation perfectly. I mean that Danielle's tell
about pinpointing the location with the appand what you can do with that.
(23:22):
Yeah, So, Larry, it'sreally kind of cool. You can when
you open up the app, youcan type in your location at the top,
and then when you press on theside, you can say pinpoint.
You can literally zoom in to whateverspecific beach you want to your backyard,
to your front door, to MayflowerBeach. You can set separate locations specifically
for several spots that you want tobe and that data will be customized for
(23:45):
those locations. Pinpoint accuracy in forecasting. Wow, as I do right,
Yeah, I do have several locations. I have Dennis Port, I have
East Dennis. Is all that allowsme to gay, I can pinpoint each
beach. Yes, yes, yes, if you look at that location that
(24:07):
you've got saved there's three dots onthe right side in our app. Once
you go into your locations, tapthe three dots. There's something that says
pinpoint. You do that and you'llbe able to pinch and zoom and we
kid you kid you not here,Larry. You can put the pinpoint on
your favorite spot on your favorite beach, and then you can actually go in
hit the dots again and nickname itso you can say, oh, yeah,
(24:30):
favorite mayflower spot, second favorite mayfloweryou could actually label. We did
this with fulls of lobster pots.We had them do it and they marked
their lobster pots as locations using thepinpoint and now they get pinpoint accuracy for
wind speed, wind direction, temperature, everything they need, even for their
lobster pots. So you absolutely cando it for your favorite beach location.
(24:52):
You gotta be a mate. Yeah, I just found it. That's excellent
because what I was doing was Ilook at your weather rap. But then
the other one that I found,which is very accurate. There's actually an
app that wind surfers use. Yes, yeah, that one's very accurate with
wins. But then well we stayedover there and then the wind finally,
I don't know what made the windturn into the south and then it became
(25:14):
a land breeze. Maybe by whatyou're saying is the temperature of the air
warmed up to just the right point, you know. So you're exactly right.
And one of the things Larry,we're really hoping that it'll make our
app a little bit different is youknow, the data. To your point,
you can get the data in alot of places. You get the
numbers anywhere. Our hope is havingthe most accurate pinpoint numbers and then at
(25:36):
the top being able to watch ourvideo explaining what's going to happen to the
weather all throughout. We're hoping thatadds a context the folks go, hey,
this is more than just numbers.This is I get what's going to
happen now, and that's the hope. Anyway, Larry, that's great,
Thank you for that information. Theother thing I noticed is your app is
one of the only ones that givesthe fourteen day forecast. Yeah. Absolutely,
(26:00):
yeah, you know what I gottasay. Danielle and I were on
the NCN team together back just priorto twenty ten when we launched the first
ten day in Boston, and sohere we are fourteen years later and we
said, you know what, thetechnology has arrived. We don't expect people
to think we're going to get itto the hour thirteen or fourteen days out
(26:21):
when the rain is gonna start.But if we can tell you it'll be
warmer or colder than normal, betteror worse chance to raign than normal,
at least you can get a generalidea to plan your life. And I
think in New England that's really whatwe're looking for that far out anyway,
don't you agree? Yeah, appreciatethat. So you've got a lifetime user,
right, Yeah, thank you,Eric, Thank you for the call.
It's one of my loyal listeners andnight side thanks. I appreciating have
(26:45):
a good one. Let me getone more in here before the break.
If you'd like to join the conversation, i'll get you in before ten.
But first we're going to go toSteve and Merrimack, New Hampshire. Steve,
you're on with Matt and Danielle Noye. Good. How are you everybody
all right? Teams for both ofgood. I watched you guys all the
time, you know, when youwere doing the network news. I just
(27:07):
wanted to ask you what motivated youto go into meteorology, and also which
weather forecast are going all the wayback? Did you idolize? Well,
that's a great question. See soI will say I had a little bit
of a love for weather ever sinceI was a little kid, and I
also say my family did too.So I remember my grandparents loved the weather.
My parents loved the weather. Youknow, I shared a room with
(27:30):
my sister growing up. I'd watchedthunderstorms out the skylight in Weymouth on the
South Shore, and then for me, Hurricane Bob in nineteen ninety one.
I remember as a little kid atthat point, I said to my parents,
can we go down to West GossaBeach. It just was amazing to
me that we could have a hurricanecoming out New England off the coast and
really in the northeast, and inNew England we are in the mecca for
(27:53):
weather. So we went to thebeach. We watched, you know,
the waves come in, and ifyou're familiar with the South sure you know.
We were a little sheltered in westigotAt Beach, but the waves were
ripping in, the sand was whippingin and I just really felt the power
of Mother Nature at that point andkind of was hooked from from there.
I grew up watching you know,no cable TV grown up, but when
(28:15):
I went to my friend's house isI'd say, oh, can I watch
the Weather Channel? And I kindof was hooked from there. Watched,
of course Barry Bourbank growing up,and Miss Michael's as well. So my
level weather was was, you know, from a young age, and I
know Matt's was too. Yeah,you know we're five years apart. Go
ahead, please not to date myself. But I used to watch Don Kent
(28:37):
way back in the late sixties andearly seventies. Yeah. Don was a
great passionate He was a very passionateguy. I really loved him. I
watched, you know, I worked. I worked with Don Kent guys.
And the morning of the Blizzard ofseventy eight, we all ended up at
a hotel right next to the stationand the storm was at its height,
(29:00):
and we had stayed up quite latebecause we didn't get in that night until
about midnight. And they called meabout four in the morning and said you
got to come over and anchor becauseJack Chase isn't going to be in this
morning. And I said, wait, a second, hold on here,
Jack Williams, he's down, He'sin another room. He's not answering his
phone. So I made the mistakeof answering my phone. I thought I
(29:22):
was going to die. I walkedfrom the what then was in to the
WBZ. It was a white trulywhiteout conditions. There was the height of
the storm the Tuesday morning, gotinside and there was Don Kent. Don
had made it in from Weymouth,or maybe he had stayed overnight. And
so for the first time in mylife, I sat on the anchor chair
where Jack normally would be and coyou know, did the morning news with
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Don Kent there on whatever it wasFellow nineteen seventy eight. The big fun
was reading the no school announcements becauseI, you know, because I knew
how much joy I was bringing tothe hearts of children across New England if
the Stev's were working. So yeah, No, Don was a class act.
Jack Chase was a class act aswell. Uh And and you know,
(30:06):
obviously they were dominant in the fiftiesand sixties and into the seventies they
were there were institutions in this town. And you know, again I had
the opportunity to work with both ofthem, and so I go back a
little lot earlier than than Danielle andMatt. But uh, were there other
weather people that each of you admiredas you were growing up. I know
that Danielle had missed Yeah, missMichaels, who I knew very well,
(30:30):
was in a sweet person. AndMary Burbanks a great guy. Uh.
Any of you around with what wasworking at four? Yeah? For me,
it was Harvey Leonard h You know, because I got to tell you
I had I had, I hadasked all of the stations. I also
didn't have cable growing up and thenended up building a career in a cable
station. But I had asked allthe stations for for an internship. And
(30:52):
uh, and you know, Harveynot only was kind enough to take me
in and show me around the studio, but then when I reached college,
he reached out to me. Hefound me and said, hey, remember
you wanted that internship. I gottawaiting for you. And so began a
friendship that to this day still goesstrong. I learned so much from Harvey,
not just about how to be agreat forecaster, but how to be
(31:15):
a great guy. He came alongin a beautiful point in life where he
really taught me that nice guys don'thave to finish last. The nice guys
can still be nice and do well. And so I continue to learn new
lessons from Harvey all the time.Well, that's a great story. That
is a great story. I neverhad the autortunity to work with Harvey,
but I've heard others say very similarthings about him. Steven Mary mc new
(31:37):
Hampshire, you asked some great questions. Thank you so much for you One
quick, quick, one, goahead. Do you think we're gonna We're
gonna. We're gonna see another Februaryof twenty fifteen sequence of storms like that
particular month. We will any willnow, will it? You know?
Will it be this winter? Idon't know, but we will, And
I'll tell you exactly why. Ina nutshell, look the way that the
(31:59):
climate is changed. We are nowin a position where you've taken what used
to be a big dome of coldby the North Pole, and every year
you break it into fragments. Andso what happens is these little fragments,
these bubbles are cold there. Insteadof a big dome of it, these
little bubbles of cold there get stuck, and because you've got warm of the
normal conditions outside of that, youget a big cold warm clash, and
(32:20):
it snows again and again and againin the same place. That's what happened
to us in twenty fifteen, It'swhat happened to Buffalo two winters ago,
and is absolutely going to happen tous again. But you see what happens
when it doesn't. We end upwith what hardly any snow compared to what
we are used to warm of thenormal conditions, right, And that is
all just part of kind of thenew normal. You're either going to get
sought or more often than not,you've gotta be just outside of that,
(32:44):
and you're gonna end up missing outon it. Of course, that happens
to Buffalo every winter. I thinkit starts late August the year before we
got creamed that that winter of twentyfourteen fifteen, it had not snowed at
all until about the middle of January, and then it didn't stop snowing.
The year before, it had allstruck the mid Atlantic States week after weekend
(33:07):
after weekend, and it just movednorth the following year. It was incredible
anyone who was around there and remembersthat one. Steve, great questions,
Man, you should be a talkshow host. Thanks man, talk soon.
Thanks Peve. I love you guys, Thank you, Thanks very much,
Steve. I appreciate that a wholelot. Six, one, seven,
two, four, ten thirty sixone seven, nine three one ten
(33:29):
thirty. If you want to givea quick call to try to get two
or three folks in between now andthe end of the hour, we will
be switching topics and we'll be talkingabout the arrests of these potential suspected terrorists
from one of the former Soviet statesover there. This is getting to be
scary stuff. We'll talk about thatafter the ten. We're talking about weather,
something that everybody talks about in NewEngland. I once was told by
(33:53):
a television consultant many years ago thata certain percentage of people really a sports
fans, but it's not a hugepercentage, but everybody. Everybody wants to
watch the weather, and of coursehere on Channel four we have a key
weather meteorologists and now you can youcan also can can check in with one
degree outside. We'll give all thatwebsite information and take a couple more calls
(34:16):
between. Now at ten o'clock,we take a quick break. Coming right
back on Nightside. My name isDan Ray, the host of Nightside here
on WBZ ten thirty am, Boston'snews radio. Now back to Dan Ray,
live from the window World nights SideStudios on WBZ the news Radio.
My guest. Final segment coming upMatt and Danielle Noice. They are the
(34:39):
founders former well known weather broadcasters ontelevision here in the Greater Boston area of
one degree outside and we're going togo to Tom in Rhode Island. Tom,
you were in next on Nightside withMatt and Danielle. Go right ahead,
Tom, Well, where's Tom idea? We all right? You know
what. I forgot to hit thebut that was my mistake. Tom.
(35:00):
Thanks for the backup. I'll goright ahead, Tom. Sorry. I
was wondering where the heck he wentdown? Man, And I was wondering.
All of a sudden you were gone. I turned on and you were
gone, and I didn't know whereyou went. No, I'm here,
but you shot that. Dan mightknow this quick. Do you remember the
(35:22):
famous quote that Don Kent said aboutthe Blizzard of seventy eight. I actually
was born in seventy nine, SoI wasn't around it here mis the hell
of a storm, Matt. Itwas a hell of a storm, I
know, Dan, Do you remember? Do you remember? Dan? No?
I don't. What did he say? Well, he was the only
(35:45):
one, if you remember correctly,he was the only one that forecast that
the storm was going to hit usand hit us hard. You remember,
well, I think Bruce Sweagler probablywould have an argument with you on that.
But let's go right ahead. Brucehas passed on, so I got
to defend Bruce's honor as well.I think that Bruce always claimed that he
(36:05):
had he saw it as well.But what did But Don certainly started.
So what did n say? Donsaid, after everybody else was calm for
pot the storm was going to goby, and they were going to get
Botley cloudy, And after the stormand we were buried up to our up
to our waist and snow, thecors was stuck everywhere. Don Kent went
on to stid right into the cameraand says, what do you folks think
(36:30):
of that? Thirty six inches ofPotley cloudy? Yeah? Don was good.
You know, Don didn't have alot of the weather instrumentation that folks
have today. And he had achalk blackboard, and UH had a bucket
of water and a sponge and hewould erased the board himself and he'd be
(36:52):
sitting there at eleven o'clock in thein the morning drawing all of the high
pressures and the low pressures, etcetera. And it was a kind of
old school, but he was aHe was a great New Englander, that's
for sure. I used to getused to have. He used to have
the microphone hanging around his neck bya cord, and the cord was grouped
dragon behind him as he walked around. That's a class act. He's an
(37:14):
absolute class act. Tom, thanksvery much for reminding us very much.
I like you about that. Thatapp one degree dot one degree off dot
com. I'm gonna what one degreeoutside, one degree outside dot com,
one degree outside dot com. Havea great night. Congratulations, guys,
thank you so much from you.Well, congratulations to you folks for for
(37:39):
striking out on your own. I'msure it's going to be a great success.
Let's just wrap it up here,Uh, and you guys can can
make a little pitch for people,Matt, you or Daniel Danielle set us
up with the make sure we're correctwhere people are going to go to find
you. What's the website? Yes, so website is the number one degree
(38:00):
outside dot com. And then ifyou're looking for the app on iOS,
you can just search in the appstore. You can search noises one degree
outside whether will pop up, orif you just go to our website.
Right at the top on the righthand side, there's a link it says
get for Apple and get on GooglePlay, so you can click those links
to and be able to download theapp. Again. It's for free.
(38:22):
And you know all of our weathervideos and information is that's kind of our
clearing house to our website for allthe weather information. And I gotta say,
Dan, you know it is justsuch a pleasure to be on with
you. I am a lifelong fanof yours my whole career. I have
admired you and watch you. Iknow you and Danielle had a chance to
(38:42):
work together for years and see eachother, and I never had that pleasure.
And I just I can't thank youenough for sharing your night with us
and letting us be a part ofthis tonight. It's been such a pleasure
to be on with you tonight.Well, you've done a great job for
Utopia for Zoo New England over theyears. And I remember, you know,
seeing Danielle. I was out ofTV, I was in radio at
(39:04):
that point, and I was saying, gee, I love her first name.
You know, she's got a greatfirst name, but a couple of
extra letters and all that, butuh, she's always very nice, very
very and uh. Obviously you guysare a very match, you know,
made and made in weather if youwill. And I think you've got a
great success and I wish all thebest of luck and let's keep in touch.
Okay, we'll see you certainly atUtopia a year from now, that's
for sure. That sounds Greatne,thank you so much. We're both so
(39:29):
vague. Well, thanks to allyour listeners too. We really appreciate the
sport. It's one our pleasure.And when I mentioned Utopia, I have
to mention the great job that JohnLenihan does at the Franklin Park and at
the Stone Zoo. She appreciates whatyou and LaToya have done over the years
to to help raise money at thatauction every year. It's such a great
event. Thanks so much, guys. We will we'll hopefully see each other
(39:49):
on the circuit between now and nextyear. Thank you very much, have
a great right Bye bye, Danielle. By Matt. All right, we
come back. We're going to talkabout a more difficult subject, which is
the arrest of some terrorists. Andthis is this augurs does not argue well
necessarily, so keep that in mindas we move into the next hour.
(40:15):
We're going to talk about the terroristand expert right after the ten o'clock moves
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