Chris Vickers

Toledo

Chief Meteorologist at WTOL-TV (Toledo, OH)

Chief meteorologist at WTOL in Toledo, OH. Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM #282). #Cleveland born. @OhioU Bobcat. @Stjude Hero & NYC Marathon finisher.

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Weather Impact ALERT DAY: Severe risk late Thursday; damaging winds, large hail, tornadoes

3 weeks ago | wtol.com | Chris Vickers

TOLEDO, Ohio — The peak of severe weather season is here and the WTOL 11 Weather Team has issued a Weather Impact ALERT DAY for the risk of strong to severe storms that will be possible in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan late Thursday evening into Friday morning.
A Writer’s Life – Sylvia Edwards - Talking About My Generation

3 weeks ago | talkingaboutmygeneration.co.uk | Chris Vickers

After a long career in education Sylvia Edwards, aged 80, is still at the coalface tutoring a young man with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities to achieve the required grades in maths and English that will enable him to make his way in a meaningful career. She is also an inveterate writer still active after forty years with an impressive catalogue of educational, parental guidance, fiction and non-fiction titles to her credit.
Your First Football Match

1 month ago | talkingaboutmygeneration.co.uk | Chris Vickers

L S Lowry’s painting Going to the Match captures the thrill and expectation of the contest ahead, how the beautiful game transcends everyday life providing ninety minutes of excitement and escape from real life. Imagine then the heightened emotions of Bob Farrell and his friend, ‘Wally’, aged just nine on being taken to their first ever top flight game by Wally’s dad.
ALERT Day issued for Thursday due to an expected powerful late autumn storm system | WTOL 11 Weather

Nov 15, 2024 | wtol.com | Chris Vickers

TOLEDO, Ohio — The WTOL 11 Weather team has issued an ALERT DAY for next Thursday, Nov. 21 for a powerful late autumn storm system that is expected to bring gusty winds, rain, plunging temperatures and possibly the first snowflakes of the season. It will be very mild early next week. Rain chances will arrive Tuesday and into Wednesday ahead of this system. Temperatures will plunge Thursday with the arrival of a powerful cold front and strong gusty winds that may reach 40 mph or greater.
Gone Fishin’: Childhood memories

Oct 28, 2024 | talkingaboutmygeneration.co.uk | Chris Vickers

Our Salford reporter Chris Vickers shares his childhood memories of fishing with his dad. Some sixty years ago I would accompany my dad fishing at a lake in Pilsworth, near Heywood. He’d park the car, we’d retrieve our fishing baskets and rod holdalls from the boot, walk across a farmer’s field and then, to my chagrin, walk along a broken topped wall-with lake on one side and irrigation ditch on the other, and I couldn’t then swim!-until he deemed it a ‘likely’ spot tocatch some fish.
40 years of volunteering: Christine Barwood

Jun 21, 2024 | talkingaboutmygeneration.co.uk | Chris Vickers

Our reporter Chris Vickers chats with Christine Barwood, a local volunteering superstar at the Agnes Hopkins Community Centre, in celebration of 40 years of ‘Volunteers’ Week’. This year, Volunteers’ Week celebrates its 40th anniversary, so at the Volunteer Centre we thought we would look back 40 years into Manchester’s volunteering history. While it is interesting to learn about history through an exhibition, it is all the more personal to read real people’s volunteering stories.
Massive 'heat dome' will bring blazing heat and near record warmth

Jun 13, 2024 | wtol.com | Chris Vickers

TOLEDO, Ohio — On the verge of the summer solstice, some of the hottest weather of the early season is expected to scorch the area late this weekend and into next week. It will be a gorgeous start to the weekend on Saturday with highs near 80 degrees. Enjoy the time outdoors with the very pleasant, dry and mild feel. Be prepared now for a significant and long-duration heat wave that will persist much of next week. Highs on Father's Day will reach into the low 90s.
My thoughts on National Service

Jun 6, 2024 | talkingaboutmygeneration.co.uk | Chris Vickers

In May 2024 the Conservative party announced a plan to require 18-year-olds take part in a form of national service if the party wins the general election on 4 July. Our Salford reporter Chris Vickers shares his thoughts on National Service. What are yours? Leave us a comment.
'Going to the Match' Lowry painting goes on tour

Apr 2, 2024 | talkingaboutmygeneration.co.uk | Chris Vickers

LS Lowry’s Going to the Match will be on display at five North West venues in 2024. As well as his famous mill scenes and industrial landscapes LS Lowry was also an avid football fan and Manchester City supporter. Though for some reason, his iconic picture Going to the Match was set at Bolton Wanderers ground Burnden Park in 1953, when they were a power in the land, losing to Blackpool in that season’s legendary ‘Matthews’ FA Cup final.
Cosmic coincidence: What communities are in the exact crossroads of totality in 2024 and 2099?

Mar 18, 2024 | wtol.com | Chris Vickers

TOLEDO, Ohio — By now, most people know the path of totality for the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, will be directly across most of northern Ohio. In fact, dozens and dozens of communities in northwest Ohio will be in prime position to view totality. This will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to view the sun’s corona.