Top 5 Videos of the Week – 12/7/19

7 Dec 2019, 7:24 am

Our top 5 videos of the week showcase ways to deal with Winter Weather in FALL.

First — remind yourself what season it really is by being around colorful leaves while the snow is flying! That’s what a group of ducks did in Michigan with some of the first flakes of the month!

When there’s icing underway, one option to play defense again Mother Nature is to use a hockey stick in Buffalo, NY. Just remember, you don’t want to end up in the penalty box by using something metal — that can scratch the glass and damage wiper blades.

If you’re feeling athletic and want to avoid a snowpile, the sport of pole vaulting might come in handy. However, with storm totals more than foot across Schenectady County, NY, you might want to set the bar higher!

Our last two videos capture our furry friends “sliding” right into winter! A dog in Goldfield, IA, helps his best friend enjoy sledding, the perfect way to celebrate a snow day.

And finally, a video that YOU have watched for more than 20 thousand minutes this week. Pet owners created a snow maze in their backyard during what was a record-breaking snowstorm for Albany, NY!

Think you can top these Top 5? Be sure to send us your best weather videos! Find us on social media @WeatherNation to share.

About the author

Meredith Garofalo

Meredith is a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist as designated by the American Meteorological Society. She was born and raised in Cleveland but has worked from coast to coast covering almost every type of weather. Meredith is a weather, space, and STEM journalist and has been live out in the field during destructive tropical storms on the Gulf Coast of Florida, raging wildfires in Southern Cali... Load Morefornia, and covered the wreckage from tornadoes in the Great Plains. In 2009, she reported on the damaging hail storm during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and in 2017, the historic California winter storms that produced record rain totals and devastating flash flooding. Prior to joining WeatherNation, Meredith worked at KEYT/KKFX in Santa Barbara, CA, KOTA-TV in Rapid City, SD, WWSB-TV in Sarasota, FL, and began her career as an intern at WGN-TV in Chicago. She was Santa Barbara's "Favorite Weathercaster of the Year" in 2016 and the Community Partner of the Year in 2017 for her volunteer work with Make-A-Wish Tri-Counties and awarded with the 2018 Valparaiso University Alumni Association First Decade Achievement Award. Meredith is the current chair of the American Meteorological Society's Station Scientist Committee, which focuses on raising greater awareness & outreach when it comes to science education for viewers. She's also an accomplished journalist, producing weather and science stories including rocket launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base and the new GOES-16 satellite and it's impacts on weather forecasting. Meredith was personally invited by NASA's Johnson Space Center to interview astronauts on the International Space Station and was the only meteorologist in the nation to do an exclusive report accompanying the GOES-West satellite from Colorado to Florida, reporting on and covering it's launch in 2018. Meredith's also worked on features that took her paragliding along the coast, white water rafting in Northern California, learning to surf in the Pacific Ocean, and how to be an aerial photographer while flying a single engine plane! Say hi on Facebook, Twitter, & LinkedIn!

Top 5 Videos of the Week – 12/7/19

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