How crazy

Today Madi was asking if I have ever been on tv so I told her the story of when I was a newborn, I was on the news. My parents named me after a local meteorologist named Stormy Rottman. And a few days after I was born I was on the news.

Anyways I googled him & found some info on him & a pic of him.

Here's what I found....

Leon "Stormy" Rottman

Leon Stormy Rottman was not a weather forecaster by occupation. He was a Weathercaster by dedication. That's what was written about the late Channel 9 weatherman when he received the Board of Governors Award Emmy from the Colorado Chapter of the National Television Arts and Sciences in 1990.

Stormy was called the Pied Piper by former colleague Bill Kuster, because people followed him and believed in his forecasts and his on-camera style. That style was honed by military service as a meteorologist and by his natural affinity to project a twinkle in his eye as he appeared on the home TV screen.

Stormy began his career as a meteorologist with the Air Force as a briefing officer during World War II in the Pacific.

During the Korean War, he had the chance to work part time for a local TV station while he was stationed at Lake Charles, Louisiana. Stormy was heard on Armed Forces Radio from Tokyo in the mid 1950's. In 1957, he was transferred to the North American Air Defense Command in Colorado Springs where he worked at KRDO-TV
in his spare time

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Another radio stint with the American Forces Network in Germany followed in the early 60's.

He joined KBTV-Channel 9 in Denver in 1969 and from there started a new career as talk show

host for KRMA-Channel 6's Senior Showcase.Shortly before Stormy's death in 1993, Rocky Mountain News Radio-TV columnist Dusty Saunders wrote these words. "Although Leon Rottman has a central-casting nickname for a Weathercaster, it really doesn't fit his personality. He is much more "Sunny" than "Stormy".