2:35 am... out the door, after three years of mornings, you learn to get ready quick. That includes shower, breakfast, and messing up my hair.

Just before 3:00 am... I'm walking to the weather center.

3:00 - 3:30 am... creating and tuning up forecast. This involves looking over many weather websites, maps, charts, numerical output, models, etc. When there is really bad weather this can take much longer.

3:30 - 4:00 am... emailing forecast to producers, co-workers, updating the website, radio forecasts, updating phone forecast, inputing forecast into script (though weather people don't read from a script or prompter, yep, we just wing it up there). If you notice, there's a ton to do in a very short time, and it all has to be RIGHT! I got coffee in there somewhere too.

4:00 - 4:40 am... creating wizardy with weather graphics. We have 12 computers in the weather center that go into making our weather shows!

4:40 - 4:50 am... doing what Monty calls, "Covering up ugly", I guess that's the manly way to say, "putting on make-up". And, yes, we do our own hair and make-up. From the time I step in the door until air-time, there really is not one fleeting second I'm not doing something. I know, it's a job, you are supposed to be working!

10 MINUTES UNTIL AIR TIME!

4:50 - 5:00 am... Fine tuning my the slides I'm going to show on-air, setting up radar, looking over traffic. Traffic is usually fairly calm from 5-6am, not today though.

5:00 - 7:00 am... "Weather and Traffic on the ones"!! ...and sometimes more in between. I'm a chicken with it's head cut off, but acting like I'm not a chicken with it's head cut off. All you do is hope the brain is working good, the mouth is working with the brain, and you are off. The two hours of showtime goes by fast as you can imagine. When there's a bunch of weather and traffic, staying loose, and joking with the anchors is the best way to go. Whenever I feel a little stressed, nervous, heart-pounding, that's when my brain turns to mush, so I try to jsut go with the flow as much as possible.

7:00 - 9:00 am... update traffic and weather every now and again through Good Morning America. This is time, to have a snack, reply and delete emails, etc.

9:00- 9:30 am... update co-workers in the news meeting. Update radio. Make a blog if time is available. Remove make-up.

9:30 - 11:00 am... this is lunch time, and time to do some catch-up work. There always seems to be something to do to fill the time in a hurry.

11:00 - 11:59 am... Look over new weather data, update forecast if necessary, make more graphics for WHAS11 News at Noon, reapply make-up.

Noon... It's showtime once again. Usually no traffic for the noon, so just have fun doing the weather.