{"id":444484,"date":"2026-11-01T19:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T19:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/444484\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T19:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T19:34:08","slug":"stay-ready-with-preite-ruediger-students-imagine-a-storm-filled-with-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/444484\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay Ready with Preite: Ruediger students imagine a storm filled with candy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTHWEST TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) \u2014 It\u2019s the season of pumpkins, fall leaves and, for many students, the best part of all: candy.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH FULL REPORT BELOW:<\/p>\n<p>Stay Ready with Preite: Ruediger Elementary students imagine a storm filled with candy<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/jillian-preite\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meteorologist Jillian Preite<\/a> visited Ruediger Elementary with a weather question that came with a sweet Halloween twist.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of simply answering the question, students were asked to draw their forecasts:<\/p>\n<p>If a spooky storm filled with candy was on its way, what would it look like?<\/p>\n<p>Their imaginations quickly took over.<\/p>\n<p>Willow pictured a tornado swirling with candy, while another drew clouds dropping treats from the sky. Jarvis even added a shark that wanted to get in on the candy.<\/p>\n<p>Other forecasts featured Hershey\u2019s bars, lollipops, M&amp;M\u2019s, ice cream and candy floating through the air.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the tornado would be like a big piece of candy corn,\u201d Melody said.<\/p>\n<p>Halloween also made its way into the students\u2019 forecasts, with drawings of witches, costumes and people trying to grab treats as they fell from the sky.<\/p>\n<p>From candy-filled tornadoes to chocolate and lollipops raining from the clouds, the students at Ruediger Elementary proved that forecasting can be pretty sweet.<\/p>\n<p>And if candy came with every storm, a few rainy days might not sound so bad after all.<\/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><br \/>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime<br \/><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><br \/>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":"NORTHWEST TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) \u2014 It\u2019s the season of pumpkins, fall leaves and, for many students, the best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[242,509,1353,71389,28,503,75279,173165,98999,173166,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-444484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-abc-27","tag-big-bend","tag-candy","tag-drawing","tag-florida","tag-halloween","tag-jace","tag-jarvis","tag-layla","tag-melody","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444484","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=444484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}