It was only a matter of time before the City Section of the New York Times did a story about Bradley Feldman, the man responsible for OTBKB’s daily weather report, The Current Weather in Park Slope.

There’s  a nice picture of Bradley standing next to his weather tower on the roof of his brownstone. I’ve never actually met the man though we have emailed each other.

His son is in my daughter’s fifth grade class. The family moved here a few years ago from Seattle.

Mr. Feldman brought the station with him when he moved to Brooklyn from
Seattle in 2005. Such stations are relatively rare in New York, but
common in Seattle, with its abundance of rain and tech geeks. “There
were a lot more weather people because the weather is wackier out
there,” Mr. Feldman said. “When I was leaving, someone wrote me and
said, ‘I see your “For Sale” sign. Does that mean we’re losing the
weather station?’

As far as I know there aren’t many weather geeks in Brooklyn but I have a feeling that Bradley may start a weather fad. Everyone’s gonna want their own weather tower I can just tell.

Photo by Jacob Silberberg for the NY Times