GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — For 43 years, the KARE 11 weather office has been in the beautiful KARE 11 Backyard, and for the past 33 years, I have had the privilege of calling it my office.
Each year, for at least six or seven months, five days a week, my “uniform” has been a coat. Over the years, I’ve built a collection that has carried me from season to season — from bitter cold to snowy nights — as I delivered the weather at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. The coats come in every color of the rainbow except green. If I wore green, I’d be invisible, so I avoided it.
That’s because television weather maps use a chroma key, which removes a specific color — typically green — and replaces it with graphics. If I wore green, the camera would treat my clothing as part of the background and “key it out,” making parts of me appear transparent or invisible on screen…