{"id":272263,"date":"2026-05-15T14:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272263\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T14:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:01:07","slug":"stay-ready-with-preite-putting-a-creative-spin-on-weather-forecasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272263\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay Ready with Preite: Putting a creative spin on weather forecasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTHEAST TALLAHASSEE, FL \u2014 Students at Killearn Lakes Elementary got a chance to think beyond rain and sunshine when <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/jillian-preite\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meteorologist Jillian Preite<\/a> stopped by to ask them a simple but imaginative question: if you could invent a new type of weather, what would it be?<\/p>\n<p>WATCH FULL REPORT BELOW:<\/p>\n<p>Stay Ready with Preite: Putting a creative spin on weather forecasting<\/p>\n<p>Ready with paper and drawing supplies, the kids got to work \u2014 and the results were anything but ordinary.<\/p>\n<p>One student, Brooks, conjured a fire tornado, also known as a fire twister. Another went in a decidedly more delicious direction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I drew a lasagna tsunami. So this is me right here saying &#8216;lasagna tsunami&#8217;, and this right here is a lasagna pirate ship,&#8221; Slade said.<\/p>\n<p>The creativity didn&#8217;t stop there. Another student described a weather system that sounded more like a dessert than a forecast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would do a doughnut and ice cream shower. So the ice cream is basically like hail alongside the sprinkles, but the doughnuts are like meteors falling down,&#8221; Katelyn said.<\/p>\n<p>One student offered a more nature-inspired vision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would choose it raining rain and seeds, and it can like plant it, and it makes like apple trees and flowers,&#8221; Cooper said.<\/p>\n<p>Although the students can&#8217;t control the weather, they had no problem creating it.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram <\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTHEAST TALLAHASSEE, FL \u2014 Students at Killearn Lakes Elementary got a chance to think beyond rain and sunshine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[242,9474,1749,23321,71389,28,93422,71081,4189,1289,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-272263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-abc-27","tag-brooks","tag-cooper","tag-creative","tag-drawing","tag-florida","tag-imagination","tag-katelyn","tag-killearn-lakes-elementary","tag-leon-county","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}