# Who was the Morning show weatherman artist? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 1, 2015, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-morning-show-weatherman-artist/739117 "2015-12-01T16:03:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-morning-show-weatherman-artist/739117/1 "2015-12-01T16:03:02Z")
It might have been ‘Today’, but could have been another program. I think he was the weatherman, but I recall he would draw ‘artwork’ for lack of a better word as he gave the weather. I think it was in the past 10 years or so. An older (60ish), short, heavyset chap. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-morning-show-weatherman-artist/739117/2 "2015-12-01T17:13:58Z")
This guy? > **[Tex Antoine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Antoine)** > > Herbert Jon Antoine Jr. (April 21, 1923 – January 12, 1983), known professionally as Tex Antoine, was an American weatherman on New York City television for nearly three decades. > He was born Herbert Jon Antoine Jr., in Illinois, and was raised in California and Texas. His father was Herbert Jon Antoine Sr. (1894–1972), an auto supply salesman. His mother was Bertha Campbell, and by 1930 the family was living in Los Angeles. > Antoine (whose nickname "Tex" came from his growing up in Texas) first ... > **[Herbert Jon “Tex” Antoine Jr. (1923-1983) - Find...](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6378180/herbert-jon-antoine)** > > Television Personality. A TV weatherman who was untrained in meterology, he captivated viewers in television's early days with folksy ad-libs and a cartoon sidekick, the baldpated Uncle Wethbee, whose large mustache drooped on rainy days and curled... ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-morning-show-weatherman-artist/739117/3 "2015-12-01T17:28:43Z")
Thanks, but no. That chap died over 30 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-morning-show-weatherman-artist/739117/4 "2015-12-01T20:50:30Z")
[Willard Scott](http://www.imagelogr.com/i-willard-scott-young.php)? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-morning-show-weatherman-artist/739117/5 "2015-12-01T21:00:38Z")
[Mark McEwan](http://cbsnews2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2002/04/12/dcf17556-a642-11e2-a3f0-029118418759/thumbnail/620x350/b68c767d1c04109a96bef5266d099591/image506073x.jpg) did the weather on several CBS attempts at a morning show. Don’t know about “artwork,” though. That sounds more like a 1960s thing. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-morning-show-weatherman-artist/739117/6 "2015-12-01T21:03:29Z")
There used to be a weatherman here in Austin in the 70’s that made the most beautiful cloud drawings on a paper tablet during his weathercasts. I can’t remember his name now though and Google doesn’t seem to remember the 70’s very well either. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-morning-show-weatherman-artist/739117/7 "2015-12-01T21:33:07Z")
Tulsa had [Don Woods](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Woods_%28meteorologist%29) who drew a “Gusty” cartoon every night with his weather report. ---
**Author:** ![stanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@stanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stanger)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-morning-show-weatherman-artist/739117/8 "2015-12-02T00:15:28Z")
For many years, through the 1960s mostly, the local CBS affiliate here in San Antonio featured Jim Dawson as the weatherman. This was back when most of the board was drawn in chalk on sliding chalkboards. Every night after he finished the evening weather report, he would slide a chalkboard away from the end of the one he just showed his weather “map”, and would say "And here are a couple of characters . . . " It would be a simple , original chalk outline drawing of a couple of people. After the drawing was revealed, he would hesitate a couple of seconds, then say off screen what one was saying to the other. I know he did this after the local news was done in color, but I will always remember it in B&W.