Free Range by Bill Whitehead for December 08, 2021

Lose this clod in a “puff of smoke”.

“That’s {fill in the name of your local legendary weatherman} as a kid!”

Dad’s thinking “Might big words Son. But you’re crowding my comic space!”

Reminds me of a girl I once dated….Talked WAY too much!

That white poofy thing has thousands of tons of water in it just waiting for an instability to come crashing back to the earth.

Only a forty percent chance of that.

Young Sheldon or Waldo?

A young Willard Scott! RIP

Boy, are you Cirrus?

The future meteorologist doesn’t quite have it all right (yet). For instance, he said “… when it reaches the troposphere …” – it’s more accurate to say that it reaches the stratosphere The troposphere is the lowest layer of the atmosphere (where most of the cumulonimbus cloud is and forms). When the upper part of a cumulonimbus cloud reaches the stratosphere, an anvil head may form due to the winds in the stratosphere.

Kid meteorology geeks don’t get much respect.

Cumulonimbus is actually a thunderstorm cell thus it would be a good idea to seek cover.

He’d be the kid that has a green screen in his bedroom. And asked for a polyester suit and garish tie for his birthday.

AKA, cloudgazing with a kid with no imagination.

a kid who can look forward to making mistakes most of the time and still keeping his job…

Also known as a “killjoy”.