“Everyone in McKinney is dead” – Pete Delkus said during weather forecast of 101105 heat temperature in Texas.
The whole report is worth watching for the seeming annoyance from anchors Chris Lawrence and Cynthia Izaguirre and then meteorologist Delkus about the level of ongoing heat. And it then gets even better when it comes to the McKinney graphic error, which can be seen beginning around the 1:00 mark of the above clip. Here’s a full transcription of the clip.
WFAA meteorologist Pete Delkus does a great job of informing North Texas of dangerous heat. Above you can see what his heat index map should have looked like last night on the live broadcast. Obviously with me writing this story something went wrong with that.
Izaguirre begins the clip with “North Texas is currently under an excessive heat warning.” Lawrence then says “Yeah, another day, another 100 degrees. Let’s get to chief meteorologist Pete Delkus.” Delkus then starts his segment with “102! 102. We did it again. And we started pretty crummy this morning at 83. That’s another, we had one just a couple of days ago, a record warm low temperature. The low this morning was 83, the previous low was 82, we did that last year. Last year, on this date, we hit 109 for the daytime high, today we only hit 102, so I’m trying to look for the positive here. The warmest low temperature is 86, that happened on July 18, 2022.”
So folks tuning into the weather in Dallas last night were prepared for the daily forecast of guess what…it’s going to be hot. Nothing new here to be honest. However when we decided to look at the heat index map for North Texas. Something is not right.
There’s a long history of TV stations getting numbers wrong on graphics, often with amusing results. One of the best on-air reactions to a clearly erroneous graphic came from WFAA (the Dallas-Fort Worth ABC affiliate) chief meteorologist Pete Delkus on their 5 p.m. local news Wednesday. While going through a long report about the incredible heat waves Texas is seeing, Delkus noted that the graphic’s stated heat index of 101,105 degrees Fahrenheit (10 times the estimated temperature of the surface of the sun) for Dallas suburb McKinney would not be conducive to the survival of life.
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