WCCO's Mike Lynch Visits the Excelsior Rotary Club

Our Program on November 6th (Election Day) was a presentation by Mike Lynch, the meteorologist from WCCO Radio. He has been with the radio station for 32 years, and was raised in Richfield, MN., the oldest of 8 kids in his family. He got his degree in astronomy from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

The first half of his talk was about his days at the station, and reminiscences of the people he has worked with. His favorite to work with was Steve Cannon, and the hardest to work with is Sid Hartmann. He also talked about Boone and Erickson, Howard Viken, and all of the voices that we all know. I was waiting for him to break into the “”Good Morning Song” that we heard every morning for years.

He shifted gears, and started to talk about his avocation, astronomy. Mike hosts starwatchers throughout the area, which give participants a chance to enjoy the beauty of the sky and stars. He gave out a map of the constellations in the November sky, and instructed us how to sit back in a chair in our yards and locate the various planets and constellations.

Every year, he has been going down to Arizona where the sky is clearer, and watching the stars through one of the five telescopes that he owns. Another location that is good for starwatching is in Northern Minnesota or Wisconsin, but it gets mighty cold up there in the winter.

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