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Weather watch: Verizon's forecast phone line, reincarnated

The mythical phoenix, on the other hand, never dies. Or rather, it dies but rises from the ashes to live again.

So, which will the Verizon weather line most resemble? The mad Russian monk or the flammable bird? Your guess is as good as mine.

I’ve written several times about the line, which has been providing free weather forecasts since the 1930s. Simply dial 202-936-1212, and you can hear what the heavens have in store for you: wind or rain or shine. In March, Verizon announced that weather (and another service, time) no longer fit the company’s mission . In the land of smartphones and cable TV, phone weather is a “remnant of another era,” a Verizon spokeswoman told me.

But a backlash started, and the hangman slacked his rope . On June 1 — the day the plug was scheduled to be pulled — I wrote that there would be a reprieve.

Last week, Verizon contacted Keith Allen of D.C. Weather Services, whose half-dozen part-time meteorologists record the forecasts, and told him the service would be shut down in a week or two. “That was the news I did not want to hear,” Keith told me.

But this week, I learned that at least two entities are interested in taking over the line. The Washington Post passed, but the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments has been in discussions with Verizon. COG already has an air-quality phone line (202-962-3299). “This could be a really neat tie-in, ” said COG’s Jennifer Desimone . “We want to make sure the citizens of our region are informed of anything that could affect their health.”

The question is whether COG can afford it. Keith might have charged Verizon only $800 a month to provide four to five forecasts a day, but there is the additional cost of the infrastructure.

Another possible white knight: the Washington-based Telecompute Corp., which already provides a multitude of phone services, including weather. Telecompute’s Warren Miller said he would sell local advertising on the line to augment the costs. “My mission would be to keep the number exactly like it is,” Warren said.

Keith said he’s confident someone will step forward. “There may be an interruption for a while, but it’s going to fly again,” he said. “I guarantee you that.”

Fly again? That sounds like the phoenix. But that’s probably what Rasputin said, too, just before they threw him in the Neva River.

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