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Snarky Iowa Sports Reporter Goes Viral After Being Made to Cover Poor Weather Conditions

Cranky newscaster Mark WoodleyMary ManleyWoodley serves as a sports anchor and reporter for the KWWL station in Waterloo, Iowa. According to the journo, he usually reports in the evening and is “inside” for segments, which are just 30 minutes long. But when asked to fill in as a weather reporter for a 3:30 a.m. take amid a blizzard, let’s just say it didn’t go over well for him. Iowa sports reporter Mark Woodley recently went viral after his snarky coverage of a winter storm offered viewers a refreshing take on the run-of-the-mill weather event news coverage.Woodley was told to wake up about “5 hours” before he normally wakes up and to “go stand out in the wind and the snow and the cold and tell other people not to do the same.”

"I normally do sports, uh, everything is canceled here for the next couple of days so what better time to ask the sports guy to come in about five hours earlier than he would normally wake up and go stand out in the wind and the snow and the cold and tell other people not to do the same," Woodley explained during his report.