"He's a great player," says bandleader Pat O'Brien. The band includes musicians on clarinet and banjo. Today Syoen plays with a local Dixieland jazz trio called Palm City Jazz, which performs every Sunday in a Cape Coral coffee shop called Jumpin' Java. I was standing there with my dad, playing along ? bum-bum-bum ? and I had to have sounded like a fool, but they always cheered and said, ?Play it again.'" AUDIO SLIDESHOW: Jim Syoen talks about interactive weather and his love of the tuba.Įventually, his father got young Syoen a tuba, so he could join in the family jamboree.RELATED ARTICLE: Want to take control of the weather? The Daily News can help.RELATED ARTICLE: Weatherman Jim Syoen brings old-school broadcasting to the blue screen.ON THE WEB: Get your daily weather updates in a new way beginning Monday, with our interactive weather experience with Jim Syoen."My aunts and uncles would come over, and everyone would sing along." "My dad would have a couple Manhattans and play the piano for the family," he says. Syoen's sense of showmanship began in the living room of his childhood home in Decatur, Ill. "You know, when I quit NBC and spent some time away from broadcasting," he says, "I realized I missed performing." Syoen's schedule has remained pretty much the same: check statistics, tell people when to pack umbrellas, or take a three-day weekend. The weatherman worked with them to put the final touches on the segment. Last month, editors at the paper approached him about a new online weather service they were launching. "I missed being a part of the audience's day," he says. In August, the Daily News began work on a new component of their Web site: interactive weather. "I finally got to sleep in on a weekday," he says.īut, alas, extra sleep wasn't in the forecast. Syoen left the news station in May when his contract ended, thinking perhaps the early-morning scramble for everything wet and cloudy was over. You can get weather from like 50 to 100 sources, but if you can relate and enjoy it, then, hell, that's what they keep coming back for." "Any weatherperson can tell you if it's going to be a nice day. "I don't have the degree but I have the skill and know how," he says. He'd rather call himself a weatherperson, which in his hands translates as entertainer with a message. He's not an "official meteorologist," Syoen admits if you ask. Throughout that time, the 42-year-old developed a reputation as one of the areas most entertaining weather personalities, often working one-liners and jokes into the forecast.
It's a weather page designed to provide the essentials of living in paradise, including five-day forecasts, travel and boating weather and a look at systems lurking in the Tropics.īefore this, Syoen worked as a weatherman for NBC2 news for 12 years, delivering live morning reports on weekdays. On Monday, "Interactive Weather with Jim Syoen" on kicks off. Once he gathers enough data ? barometric pressure readings, wind velocities, tropical weather developments ? Syoen heads into work at the Daily News and delivers his report. "Once you get the blood moving, it's actually really nice. "When you get up, the first few minutes are horrible. The good news? At this hour, there are no cameras, no makeup and he doesn't have to be upbeat about that cold front swinging through from Canada. "Usually I'm in my boxers with my dogs and cat at my feet," he says of his early schedule.
The early start has become routine for this Fort Myers resident for more than a decade now: He turns off his alarm, fights through the 10 or 15 minutes of overwhelming sleepiness, creeps downstairs to study 20 or so online weather reports and takes a hot shower. Jim Syoen's up at 3 most mornings, preparing for his daily weathercast.
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