Stormy Raynes and Johnny Downpour are former weatherman for Channel 7 News briefly seen in "Mother Nature". They were fired and run out of town after making incorrect weather predictions.
Background[]
Stormy Raynes is briefly seen on the news predicting sunny weather. When the forecast turns out to be incorrect and it up being rainy instead, the townspeople form an angry mob and run him out of town, never to be seen again.
He's replaced by Johnny Downpour, who nervously predicts sunny weather on his first forecast. But like his predecessor, he's incorrect (this time it's snowy) and run out of town, also never to be seen again.
Trivia[]
- Both character's names are references to real-life meteorologists on KABC-TV, the Los Angeles news station Channel 7 News itself is a reference to. Stormy Raynes is a play on longtime weeknight meteorologist, Dallas Raines. Johnny Downpour is a nod to the now retired Johnny Mountain.
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