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What if the weather becomes dangerous?
“Jim will do his job as usual.”
The meteorologist Megan Wise will in future take over the entire list of evening programs.
“He’s helped her prepare for the extra responsibility in the air that she will have,” said Grinnage. “You have a wonderful relationship and I couldn’t ask for a better transition.”
The September 1981 WWBT advertisement highlighted the arrival of meteorologist Jim Duncan.
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The Richmond Times dispatch reported news of Duncan’s arrival.
METEOROLOGIST FOR WEATHER OF CHANNEL 12
A new weather reporter has been added to WWBT, Channel 12. In a first for this area he has been a trained meteorologist, at least in the last few years.
His name is Jim Duncan and he will join the network on August 31st and air on September 7th, according to the network’s news manager Ron Miller.
Duncan, 25, is from Greenville, NC, based in Richmond, where he worked as a weather and environmental reporter for WNCT. Miller said he hoped Duncan could do environmental reports here too.
Duncan holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics with a minor in physics from Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY, and a degree from the State University of New York at Albany.