Before New Jersey had “Snooki” and “The Situation” or Tony Soprano it had Lloyd Lindsay Young, with Channel 9’s studio in Secaucus.

Throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, Young wasn’t just a weather forecaster at WWOR/Channel 9, he was a pop culture phenomenon. (see below)

If you saw Lloyd once, belting his signature intro “Hellooooo” and a yell of “Science!” before showing the radar, you would not forget the moment.

“I like to have fun with the weather. It wasn’t serious,” Lloyd says. “Weather offered levity in a newscast because a lot of the news is depressing by nature.”

At the height of his popularity in the late 1980s, you could find Young in a Beastie Boys music video, cameo appearances in several films, including the acclaimed Working Girl, or taking the stage to introduce George Carlin on an HBO special in 1988.

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