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Eric Sorensen
Eric has over twelve years of experience in broadcast Meteorology and is the only local Meteorologist who was born and raised in Rockford! In June 2008 he was given the prestigious Silver Dome Award for best TV weathercast from the Illinois Broadcasters Association. He attended St. Edwards Grade School and Boylan High School here in Rockford before heading to Northern Illinois University. After receiving his Bachelor of Science Degree in Meteorology, Eric worked at KTRE-TV in Lufkin, Texas and KLTV in Tyler, Texas. His parents live in Belvidere and are loyal viewers every night. He has an older brother who lives in the Chicagoland area and a sister who watches WREX on a fuzzy tv up in East Troy, Wisconsin. He's happy to share his Rockford home with an 8 year old black lab named Theo. Around the station Theo's been nicknamed the "13 Weather Lab."
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9 comments:
Wow, Eric! Your forcast was right on! Good Job!
I'm not sure who said 6" in Freeport, but I spent 2 hrs clearing 10". I have a very long driveway!
Keep in mind that blowing and drifting caused many numbers to be either a little too high or a little too low. However down to the south in LaSalle County they had over a foot...there was some thundersnow (convection) there around 3-4am. -ERIC
I think Eric and Candace did a superb job forecasting this snow. I had 1 foot of snow here in loves park. What a storm!!!
I measured 12" in my back yard and on my car in the Main/Auburn area, and 9" on my porch, where snow never accumulates. My husband is stranded in Sublette (in Lee County), where they got a whopping 16"!
Husband just got home from work at 6pm is out with the tractor digging us out. Girls and I measured 13 inches, however we live in the country, a lot of blowing occured!
We had fun playing in the snow today!
Thanks for keeping us informed and being right on!
Now can you keep the cold weather away?
Jen in Dixon
Thanks for working around the clock to keep everyone up-to-date! The 13News weather crew is the best in the stateline!
And again...thanks for the snow day!
14.8 inches here in Harvard
Those totals towards Racine, Kenosha and Walworth Counties are impressive. The right-to-left momentum ahead of the low must have pulled in significant lake moisture. Because of the configuration of the north-south lake to historically south-southwest storms, it would be interesting to look at the snowfall amounts from past storms in those areas. For much of the first part of Friday, Kenosha, Racine and Milwaukee Counties were actually under Blizzard Warnings. The last time we had a big storm, I think that conditions were worse in those areas.
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