Weather Girls Case

By D. E. Harrison

The TV news stations in Seattle are have problems reporting the weather when it nears or goes over 100 degrees. The ‘weather girls’ are trying to outdo the competitors but can find only so many words for the heat.
Detective Janet Rage enjoys the heat and drives to work. In the extreme heat the shooting incidents usually go way down. It is the 80 degrees that brings out the shooting over something silly. In the office the detectives clean up the paperwork.
A reported shooting in the Pike Place Market bring two detectives and several bicycle officers to the scene. Detective Rage takes the lead and captures two robbers in the largest kitchen supply store in the city. The clerks report they wanted a shipment that never arrived. Case closed as they are sent to jail.

The Inspector has a call from the Comm. Center, “I have five shootings called in. I am low on staff. If you provide some detectives to lead patrol; I can free up two cars and eight officers to assist.”
Most of the calls are some what silly and the situation is handled on site, or several officers are left to clean up the mess. The last call for Rage’s car is the gate to a large warehouse complex. Somehow the guards were able to phone the police before their line was cut.
The videos clearly show the armed men coming up the middle of the road in no big hurry. The guards are taken captive and driven to a huge warehouse. Rage arrives at the gate and takes up a defensive position until they know more.
The FBI and Homeland Security are called because it falls in their area. The guards are found and released but the armed mask men are nowhere to be found. Rage has a moment when she sees the package that was not delivered to the kitchen store was to be shipped from this very warehouse. Homeland tries to track the package, but it vanishes in transit and never arrived at the warehouse. This kicks off a massive search of a three-square block warehouse for the box.

Meanwhile a poorly watched TV channel in Seattle has a new weather girl that wants to keep her job. She decides to have a contest with herself on how accurate her weather numbers are. The penalty for a bad forecast is she will lose part of her swimsuit. Her boss was not told what she was going to do and sprung it on him. Of course it was a big hit with a segment of the weather watchers.
The contest gets out of hand and soon three other women forecasters are in it. There are other penalties beside losing some clothing.

How does the weather girl contest get tied up with the attempted robbery at the kitchen store, Homeland searching for a shipment of a box, and Detective Rage becomes one of the weather girls in the swimsuit forecasting contest? How long will she last before parts start coming off her swimsuit.

• Language: English
• Publisher: D. E. Harrison
• Release date: Aug 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9780463296059

D. E. Harrison

I am trained as a theoretical mathematician. I am an emeritus member of the American Mathematical Society for fifty odd years. I have lived in Seattle since 1967. I starting writing fiction after writing a family history.

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Weather Girls Case

By D. E. Harrison

Copyright 2021 by D. E. Harrison

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Hot Summer in Seattle

Chapter 2 Holding Up a Kitchen Store.

Chapter 3 Judy Continues the Weather Project

Chapter 4 More Police Work

Chapter 5 Judy’s Grand Weather Plan

Chapter 6 Police Work

Chapter 7 Evelyn (Rage) is a Weather Girl

Chapter 8 The Contest is About to Start

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Chapter 1 Hot Summer in Seattle

It is one of those normal two-week summers in Seattle where the temperature may rise above 85. The local weather people are trying to find other words than really hot, a steam bath, a sizzler to describe it. They are also trying to best each other.

A weather person might say, We may break a record later in the week, but they have no idea what is going to happen. All the other station’s weather persons are saying about the very same words.

They then go on to talk about high and low pressures. They tell people to drink water, sunscreen and stay in the shade. And more important is to make sure your pets are cool and have plenty of water. They fall short of suggesting you bring all the pets indoors where it is cooler.

The third day of an abnormal heat wave in Seattle have the weather girls bursting at their seams. Channel Fourteen who is not known for any real reporting is always 5th in the four-station race has their new weather girl in a real sweat. The station manager Henry is always trying to find a new angle to gain a few more viewers. He hired the new weather girl last month with the hope something would happen.

Henry is talking with his new weather girl, Judy, Judy, this heat wave is good for maybe two more days. Then summer is over in Seattle. We need something to boost your ratings. No one wants to hear several more days of this heat and then summer is over. Go do something.

Judy wants to keep her job because the station has been switching their weather girls like a snake drops its skin. She has only a six-month contract.

Judy has the noon to 6 pm, the prime weather time. She is up against a fellow on another station that has been there forever. He must have been turning the camera crank with one hand and giving the weather with the other hand.

One of the other weather girls likely has an Uncle or Auntie that owns the station. She is always in her green floor length skirt. She has pictures of pets dressed up to show everyone. She may point at the screen several times and then wants to be your mother by telling you what you should do, such as, wear a coat, a jacket, hat, sunglasses and clean under clothes. She is only one step from tucking you in at night.

If she would just use her 50+ years living in Seattle, she could remember what the weather was going to do from ancient history. Judy does not think, while it may be true, to mention their weather girl was throwing rocks at the dinosaurs to get to the drums used by the station to give the weather.

Judy pokes her head into Henry’s office before the 3 pm weather update, Watch the weather in five minutes, got to go. All he sees is a head of blond curls out the door.

At the time for the normal weather forecast, Jude comes out in a bath robe. The kind that goes to the floor, a dirty brown, and maybe bunny slippers under it.

What is she doing. She will be looking for a new job, or sweeping the floors at midnight, come from the floor manager.

The floor manager responds to someone, I can’t get her off, she has some deal with the producer.

Jude smiles at the camera , I have missed the temperatures the last few days. I read what the Feds send down the line, but the UW model is not that great either. I will tell you something you already know. The best way to tell the weather in Seattle is to look out the window. I am about ready to try that next.

‘Groan,’ is all the station manager Henry can do.

Judy goes