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With this weekend bringing the first heavy downpours we’ve seen in a while, you may get that smell of rain wafting through the air.

Gen Z weather hotshot Matthew Cappucci recounts his rapid, if uneven, rise into major media meteorology in his new book, “Looking Up.” Along the way, he talks about weather — and the science behind it — in a way that reporters who cover storms can make good use of. Jenny Weeks reviews the volume for BookShelf.

I think you can remember back to 2010 where people had to abandon their cars or sleep in them overnight. long island has been very snowy. and guess what? it's been about minus ten with the wind chill. that's why we sent the new guy out there. my colleague, brian steltzer. pam brown is at laguardia airport. and ted rowlands is doing the job from illinois. i'm going to start with brian. brian, you can tell me the story from central long island. how is it looking now? >> reporter: well the sun is coming out and the snow has mostly stopped here. i'm kind of a weather nerd, so i i thought this was ...

After a beautiful monday, it looks like the good weather in the east coast is going to go downhill. grateful to have dylan in. >> it was awful yesterday. blizzard warnings up for oklahoma. as a weather nerd like myself, we are breaking records out in kansas. it's fun if you have to deal with that much snow, you might as well break a record. we broke a record for the snowiest month on record. february, 2013 in wichita, kansas is the snowiest. the old record was set 100 years ago, in 1913. snow coming down in eastern kansas. northwestern missouri is going to get hit hard with this storm. heavy s...