AccuWeather meteorologist Geoff Cornish, known by some as the Ted Lasso of AccuWeather, shares a day in his life as a volunteer firefighter.
Here’s a look at one of his shifts…..
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Known by some as the Ted Lasso of AccuWeather, when he isn’t tracking severe weather, hurricanes and snowstorms then broadcasting crucial information for millions of viewers, Geoff Cornish works as a volunteer firefighter and agreed to let AccuWeather tag along on one of his shifts.
It was only the second mile of a local 5K that I had, in a rare burst of fitness optimism, signed up for — yet I was already engaged in the mental gymnastics that would enable me to justify slowing my run to a walk.
“This course just has too many hills,” I rationalized at about the same time I clocked a dad a few yards ahead of me cheerfully encouraging a young girl, who appeared to be his daughter, to keep running.
His motivation was infectious. I took a deep breath and leaned into the uphill climb. Drawing equal to the adorable father-daughter duo I recognized the supportive father.
“Geoff … Cornish,” I panted. “What … are you … doing here?” The question was rhetorical, 5K small talk, if you will. Because if I had to wager which colleague would sign up for a weekend 5K with his daughter, Cornish would be the first pick. He is just that kind of guy.
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Geoffrey Cornish is a senior on-air meteorologist at AccuWeather. When asked to describe their colleague in one word, coworkers, unsurprisingly, offered terms like “jovial,” “cheerful” and “affable.” If, like the rest of the nation, you’ve developed a deep, abiding affinity for the ebullient Ted Lasso, the fictitious small-time American football coach hired to coach a professional football club in England who is the title character of the hit AppleTV+ series, then you have a pretty solid idea of the unrelenting effervescence of Geoff Cornish. Cornish is the Ted Lasso of AccuWeather.
When he isn’t running races or tracking severe weather, hurricanes and snowstorms, and then broadcasting crucial information for millions of viewers, Cornish works as a volunteer firefighter for the Alpha Volunteer Fire Company in Central Pennsylvania. He happily agreed to let AccuWeather tag along on one of his shifts to find out what a day in the life of a volunteer firefighter is like.
As Cornish strode around the firehouse, showing off equipment and explaining the nuts and bolts of the job, he told AccuWeather’s Trisha Gates that firefighting runs in the family.
“I grew up as a young kid with my dad as an assistant chief, and then as a fire chief back home in the Philadelphia suburbs. So growing up around the firehouse, it was a comfortable place,” Cornish said.
While most of his job as a meteorologist involves predicting the weather, Cornish revels in the unpredictability of a shift at the firehouse. “I wear a fire pager and it goes off about 1,300 times a year,” he revealed. “I never know when my pager might go off. And the exciting thing is I could be doing a shift sleeping here at night and three minutes after being asleep, we’re on the way to a working structure fire.” Read more from AccuWeather.
