Harvey Leonard does the weather
By adamg - 12/24/22 - 6:08 pm

An old tradition among Jewish reporters is to take shifts on Christmas Eve and Christmas day so that their Christian co-workers can take the time off. Harvey Leonard came out of retirement tonight to give one of his former weather colleagues time off.

H/t Monica.

By adamg - 5/11/22 - 4:42 pm

WCVB reports that Harvey Leonard is retiring from daily forecasting on May 25, but that this fall he will become the station's chief meteorologist emeritus, in which he will come back on air for severe-weather and climate coverage. Read more.

Harvey Leonard with chart showing 230 inches of snow in North Reading
By adamg - 2/1/21 - 9:19 pm

BOSRocks forwards this screen capture of Harvey Leonard and some snow totals tonight. Why, that's nearly 26 on the Pete Bouchard meter.

Best weather-number video ever.

By adamg - 8/25/17 - 3:27 pm
By adamg - 11/1/12 - 10:14 am

Why yes, and when that somebody is our own Harvey Leonard, we begin to think about checking the breadbox and refrigerator.

By adamg - 2/5/12 - 10:15 am

Harvey Leonard (yes, that Harvey Leonard) tweets:

By adamg - 2/8/10 - 6:04 pm

While Harvey Leonard was only calling for 6-10 inches on Wednesday in tonight's forecast, Pete Bouchard was telling us could get up to 15 inches: "Wow!

By adamg - 12/17/08 - 5:55 pm
Harv!!!

We went to French Toast Code Orange earlier this afternoon based on this forecast. And now Harv confirms we were right to panic: Look, he's posted his dread three exclamation points of wintry doom!!! So you know we're in for a rough weekend.

By adamg - 11/8/07 - 8:47 am

Steve Nadis objects to Harvey Leonard trying to whip us into a weather frenzy by showing a temperature map that extends all the way to the North Pole.

By adamg - 1/5/07 - 11:00 am

Were those tears in Harv's eyes last night as he explained how the jet stream is keeping all the cold air away from us?