Report: CBS 11 meteorologist Larry Mowry leaving for Chicago gig

On a busy, weather-heavy Tuesday morning, there is news — reported by Chicago media blogger Robert Feder and cited by DFW media blogger Ed Bark — that a familiar DFW weather face is leaving.

Jumping from a windy city to the Windy City is KTVT/Channel 11 chief meteorlogist Larry Mowry, Feder reports: “No one is supposed to know it yet, but WLS-Channel 7 is about to add ... Larry Mowry, chief meteorologist at CBS-owned KTVT in Dallas. [He’s expected to join the ABC-owned station [in Chicago] next month.”

Neither WLS or CBS 11 had cofirmed this with Bark, and DFW.com has emails out seeking comment (update: CBS 11 has declined to comment). But Feder is one of the longest-running, most-respected local-media reporters in the country. A misfire isn’t impossible, but is unlikely.

Mowry particpated in DFW.com’s “The Rainmakers” package about DFW meteorologists in 2014. He said he’d been interested in weather since he was a child, watching storms with his parents as the weather rolled into their small hometown in a valley in Ohio. He’s now been with CBS 11 for eight years.

We were surprised how few of the meteorologists had a favorite weather song, but Mowry had one: Windy by The Association. “My dad is incredibly knowledgeable about music,” Mowry said at the time. “He has every No. 1 from 1955 to 1988 on 45. I asked him to give me songs with weather in the lyrics that did real well. He sent me this list of I think it was 45 songs that were either No. 1 or Top 10. My favorite one is Windy, by the Association.”

Maybe there’s a karmic connection to the Windy City: Feder reports that Mowry worked weekeends at WLS in 2004 and free-lanced at CLTV in 2003.

This would be the third departure from CBS 11 this year, with reporters Arezow Doost and Elizabeth Dinh both leaving in February.

This story was originally published March 8, 2016 at 12:55 PM with the headline "Report: CBS 11 meteorologist Larry Mowry leaving for Chicago gig."