Marquette, MI – Brian Cabell sits down with the UP’s favorite meteorologist, Karl Bohnak, for a candid conversation about females, politics, TV news and climate change.
BC: How would you describe yourself as a boy? Curious? Adventurous? Mischievous?
KB: I would say I was the curious type and occasionally I was adventurous. For instance, during the Milwaukee riot back in 1967, I decided to go on my bike and I went into the inner city—I didn’t tell my parents about that. (laughs) I just wanted to see what was going on. I’d occasionally do things like that but I wasn’t really a risk-taker.
BC: When did you first realize you had an interest in girls?
KB: I’d have to say it was something like seventh or eighth grade. It was a girl that everybody loved, Janet Cryer. Everybody tried to get her attention. She was tall and we thought beautiful at the time. Of course, I was not all that popular so I couldn’t really get her attention.
BC: When did you discover you had a genuine interest in weather?
KB: In about the first grade I have my first memories of weather. It was a big snow year in Milwaukee and I remember the snow up to the fence posts and that’s when I became a snow fanatic, a snow freak. And as I got a little older, I started reading books and then in third or fourth grade, I started keeping a little weather diary and I eventually made a weather station. So, yeah, I started really young.
Read the full interview here: http://www.marquettemagazine.com/straighttalk-with-karl-bohnak/