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7. hah. here she is describing her job as the ''weather girl"......

Thu Oct 16, 2025, 06:19 PM

Oct 16

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/16/1184880448/susan-stamberg-obituary
She took a job at WAMU, the public radio station. She made her on-air debut when the weather girl (as the job was then called) got sick.

"It was very sophisticated," Stamberg told an interviewer for the Jewish Women's Archive in 2011. "You picked up the phone and dialed WE 6-1212. And they told you what the weather was and you wrote it down. We didn't have meteorologists, there were no computers, and there were no windows in the studio."

Yet when it came time for Stamberg to speak in front of the microphone for the first time, she realized she had forgotten to make that call. So she said the first thing that came to mind: It was 98 degrees.

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hah. here she is describing her job as the ''weather girl"...... riversedge Oct 16 #7

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Aww, damm. 🕯 RIP, Susan Stamberg. electric_blue68 Oct 17 #14