Happy 25th Birthday, The Weather Channel.

Today marks the 25th birthday of cable network, The Weather Channel. On May 2, 1982, the network made it's first live broadcast. While I didn't watch in the early years (mainly because I wasn't yet born), I began watching sometime in the early to mid 1990s. While other kids my age would be watching cartoons, I'd spend hours a day watching the weather on TV. I don't know why I was so interested, but I'm thinking it was because I was so interested in maps and geography, and when I saw the weather maps on the TV, I was hooked. I watched the channel throughout the late 1990s, and I remember all the different changes the network went through, and I remember our cable company's Weather STAR 4000. As I got into my teenage years, I lost interest, but then in March 2006, I discovered TWC Classics, a website devoted to the "classic" years of the network, and I finally re-found interest in the channel, and really meteorology in a larger sense. So in celebration of The Weather Channel's twenty-fifth birthday, I present an emulated Weather STAR III Local Forecast for TWC's 25th birthday: