You Don't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows

POLITICO pimps one of it's own: BREAKING TOMORROW: BOB RYAN, longtime Channel 4 meteorologist (and dad of ABC News producer Jason Ryan), will join WJLA ABC7, putting the market’s #2 station (which, like POLITICO, is a division of Allbritton Communications Company) on track to be #1. Bill Lord, VP/Station Manager of WJLA-TV (ABC7 and NewsChannel 8), e-mails: “Bob Ryan will do the 11 p.m. newscasts and Doug Hill will do the 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts. They will substitute for each other and during major weather events, they will both appear together … Bob will also spend a great deal of time working on the weather pages of TBD.com [the company’s forthcoming metro news site], as digital and mobile weather presentations are his current passions. He will be introduced on all the Monday newscasts and will begin his new schedule soon thereafter. Bob and Doug will both do weather on WTOP radio … [A] great team just got a whole lot better. We now have the two preeminent meteorologists in the D.C. market. Channel 4’s long dominance was based on “the 4 Horsemen”: Bob Ryan; George Michael, who left in 2008 and died a year later; Jim Vance, who’ll retire eventually; and Doreen Gentzler. Ryan’s new deal was negotiated by one Robert Barnett (who also represents Doug Hill, btw). 

The former NBC "Today" show weatherman spent 30 years doing the weather at Washington's NBC O&O. The station's weatherman, Willard Scott, replaced Ryan on "Today" in 1980.  Bob, 66, had been "Today's first meteorologist since 1978. Here's Bob's final forecast where he disingenuously claims he's going "to have fun watching the weather for a change with his wonderful wife, Olga" in a weirdly disjointed goodbye: