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"Find out if rain will wreck your weekend plans--up next."
"Will you be needing that umbrella tomorrow morning? We'll be right back with the weather."
"Are we done with the cold days for good this season? Weather up next!"

I never realized that radio stations use teasers about the weather in the morning until I started commuting early. I don't really understand why they'd use the weather and not some cool bit of info or newspiece, but then I also don't expect to reclaim my sanity until after my last final. Right...