Weather Channel Meteorologist Reports Live from Downtown Northfield

The rest of the United States now knows about Northfield’s May Day snowfall.

The Weather Channel was broadcasting live reports from Bridge Square Wednesday afternoon.

During a 4:30 p.m. live telecast, meteorologist Mike Seidel—dressed in a blue L.L. Bean winter jacket—was being pelted by snowflakes as he reported on the city’s current weather conditions.

He provided the nation with details many residents of Northfield and southern Minnesota already knew: that the area is was store for what could be an historic snowfall.

Seidel made his on-air reports while a camera operator and sound technician worked under a white portable canopy, protected from the wet snow.

The reports were being transmitted to the cable channel and the rest of the nation through a satellite truck parked across the street from the Bridge Square Post Office.