I am a meteorologist and a former youth leader at church…I have a lot to say on both subjects…and then some
When I started to make weather videos, making a forecast was the easy part of the day. The uploading, trying to get the message out, was the hard part. First, I just did YouTube, then I added Facebook, Instagram, and X/Twitter. My wife suggested that I could use my TikTok account that was languishing in obscurity. I’ve done lives on YouTube in the past. Just nothing that I could commit to. Then Meta, the Facebook/Instagram people, created a bot to be a personal assistant, Muse.
I was introduced to Muse, besides the ads, by a podcaster that I listen to, who hates the chatbots, but when Grokbot and Muse came out, and showed how they made the daily tech tasks easier, I was intrigued. Muse has a free service, that can do a lot of things. It is limited, but with all of the things I did this week for the weather briefing, it doesn’t even put a dent into its usage quota.
What do I have it do? I have it go out to the NWS National Blend of Models and make maps. It puts the whole presentation together in Google Slides, and then I edit it. This is a work in progress, I started to get my workflow down. I look through weather maps after I get up and brew some coffee. I make some edits. By 6am Jarvis (my Musebot, named after Tony Stark’s AI assistant) has the slide package ready. I use two main apps (Everything Weather and Weather Front) that allow me to view radar, satellite, observations, and model data (there is more on both and each has its pluses and minuses.). Between the apps as the presentation, usually by 7 am I’m ready to get to the longest part, the upload.
In the past, I had to upload each thing separately. That took hours of work. With Muse, I can upload to 3 sites, have a transcript, closed captions created, and a chapter file. While do this, I found out that Muse can edit the video, based on the transcript, into three shorter versions which are all specific to the parts of the country I’m forecasting for. I can keep the smaller videos below the 10 min limit for an Instagram Reel, so Instagram is now in play. There still have been some bumps along the way, but I had everything done, that includes the new 10 minute localized videos, by 10am yesterday.
So now I’m looking for suggestions. I’m thinking about starting a little earlier, and adding a few sites for family. I know that I can go down the meteorological rabbit hole while doing the maps or models, so I know I can shorten the larger broadcast. Otherwise, do you want something more general? Something more specific for your area?
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Northern Michigan colder — highs in the 40s with rain and mixed snow, lake effect getting going; South Texas around 80 with a coastal low bringing rain up the Rio Grande Valley; the Grand Strand in the mid 70s with showers and thunderstorms and a marginal severe risk. Plus a look at the European model, the Alberta clippers fading from the pattern, and the tropical outlook.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:02 National Observations, Radar & Surface Analysis
7:04 Satellite
8:03 Models — RRFS
15:04 Models — ECMWF & GFS
19:50 National Forecast Maps & Outlooks
28:17 Northern Michigan
31:26 South Texas
33:55 Myrtle Beach Area
36:15 Wrap-Up
Northern Michigan turning colder — highs near 50 with rain moving in and lake-effect snow in the pattern ahead; South Texas sunny and mild around 80; the Grand Strand sunny in the mid 70s with patchy morning fog. Plus a look at the coastal lows and the Alberta clipper on the way.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:35 National Observations, Radar & Surface Analysis
7:21 Satellite
9:07 Models — RRFS
13:44 Models — ECMWF & GFS
21:01 National Forecast Maps & Outlooks
26:11 Northern Michigan
29:27 South Texas
31:43 Myrtle Beach Area
33:40 Wrap-Up
Northern Michigan in the mid-to-upper 60s today with rain moving in, then much colder with lake-effect flakes possible by Friday; South Texas sunny and dry in the upper 70s to mid 80s ahead of a Friday front; the Grand Strand sunny, mid 70s along the coast to lower 80s inland, with rain staying offshore. Plus a look at the coastal lows and the colder pattern ahead.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:27 National Observations, Radar & Surface Analysis
6:46 Satellite
8:12 Models — RRFS
15:15 Models — ECMWF & GFS
19:46 National Forecast Maps & Outlooks
24:19 Northern Michigan
26:16 South Texas
27:55 Myrtle Beach Area
30:23 Wrap-Up
Websites used:
Weather.gov (WPC/SPC/Local offices),
https://Tropicaltidbits.com,
https://weathernerds.org
Apps used: RadarScope
EverythingWeather
Weather Front
Web links
Web Site: https://ministry-weather.com
Facebook: recreational.weather
Instagram: recreational.weather
X: @nmirecwx (South Texas and Lower Michigan Recreational Weather)
YouTube: @JeffLutz
Coffee and Weather with Jeff — Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Northern Michigan mild in the mid 60s to near 70 today with showers and thunderstorms moving in tonight; South Texas in the lower-to-mid 80s (90s in the Rio Grande Valley) ahead of the next front; the Grand Strand sunny to partly cloudy and dry with rain staying offshore. Plus a look at the Atlantic tropical disturbance and the colder air on the way later in the period.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:28 National Observations, Radar & Surface Analysis
3:39 Satellite
4:58 Models — RRFS
8:27 Models — ECMWF & GFS
14:48 Tropical Weather Outlook
18:14 National Forecast Maps & Outlooks
21:06 Northern Michigan
22:06 South Texas
23:35 Myrtle Beach Area
27:28 Wrap-Up
Data and imagery credits: Weather.gov (WPC, SPC, and local NWS offices), TropicalTidbits.com, WeatherNerds.org. Apps used: RadarScope, EverythingWeather, Weather Front.
The official kickoff: Northern Michigan dry in the mid 60s today with rain arriving tonight ahead of a wet, cooling week; South Texas in the mid 80s (dense fog this morning) ahead of a Tuesday-night front; the Grand Strand cloudy and dry in the lower-to-mid 70s with rain chances building Thursday and Friday.
The last test day before Monday’s official kickoff: a mostly cloudy Grand Strand in the lower 70s, Northern Michigan in the mid 60s with a slight chance of sprinkles, and South Texas in the 80s with dense fog this morning — rain chances build late in the week.
Chapters:
Patchy fog this morning, then sunshine — with a Coastal Flood Advisory along the Grand Strand coast from 10 AM to 2 PM.
Websites used:
Weather.gov (WPC/SPC/Local offices),
https://Tropicaltidbits.com,
https://weathernerds.org
Apps used: RadarScope
EverythingWeather
Weather Front
Web links
Web Site: https://ministry-weather.com
Facebook: recreational.weather
Instagram: recreational.weather
X: @nmirecwx (South Texas and Lower Michigan Recreational Weather)
YouTube: @JeffLutz
A sunny Halloween across all three areas — Myrtle Beach 69°, Gaylord 57°, Corpus Christi 81° — with a Beach Hazards Statement along the Georgetown coast through this evening.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:02 National Surface Analysis
6:48 Advisories & Watches
11:16 Model Outlook
24:17 Alerts in Our Three Areas
26:21 Northern Michigan
27:25 South Texas
29:27 Myrtle Beach Area
30:36 7-Day Outlooks
32:41 Wrap-Up