Let’s be honest: Perennial winner of this category Cliff Mass is kind of a weather showboat. Sure, dude knows a lot about weather in the Pacific Northwest. He knows so much that he wrote an entire book about it—the appropriately titled The Weather of the Pacific Northwest. But that’s Mass’ main problem. He’s just too thorough, too much a smarty-pants. When I want weather, I don’t want 1,200 words on pyrocumulus clouds or virga or air particles smaller than 2.5 microns. I want a freakin’ five-day forecast with a lot of smiling sun faces wearing shades. And that is exactly the kind of light, friendly, easy-to-digest forecast that Q13’s Walter Kelley delivers. Here’s a guy who’s obviously having way more fun at his job than you are, and his job is to predict weather in Seattle . . . which has to be about as thankless as it gets. Kelley does it all with a smile on his face that says, “Sure, what I’m doing here is kind of a joke, but at least we’re all in on it!” Plus, he’s cute as a button. What more do you want out of a weatherman?

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