Sonny Eliot was a Detroit Icon
The bell has "ring-a-ding-a-dined" for legendary weatherman Sonny Eliot.
The wacky broadcaster — who became an icon during a 63-year career on Detroit television and radio — was 91.
According to WWJ-AM (950) — the radio station he called home for decades, from 1947 to 2010 — Eliot died at his Farmington Hills home with family by his side. His family made the announcement Friday morning.
For six decades, Eliot delighted listeners — and TV viewers on the Evening News Association's WWJ-TV, now WDIV-TV — with an unrelenting barrage of quips, funny noises, unusual city names and groaners.
More borscht-belt comedian than meteorologist, he delighted in coining new words (rainy, foggy conditions were "froggy") and giving the weather in far-flung locales whose names he willfully mispronounced.
His broadcasts were a collection of accents, funny noises, cornball humor and analogies from Mars. Somewhere in there was the forecast...
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming
Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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