Kids & Family
Boy, 6, Gives Weather Forecast That Rains Tears Of Laughter
A Nashville 6-year-old doesn't just give the weather in kindergarten class project. He is the weather.
NASHVILLE, TN — Stop what you’re doing right now and watch this video. If this 6-year-old kid bringing a 100 percent chance of hilarity to his kindergarten class weather forecast isn’t the best thing you’ve seen on the internet in a while, we are sad for you.
The kid has Super Doppler-sized meteorologist chops. He’s Carden Corts, and he lives in Nashville, where there’s an entertainment bent to almost everything. Write his name down. He’s going somewhere.
Each of the kids in his Waverly Belmont Elementary took a day in March to do the weather forecast. Carden nailed it. He screams as a video loop of a hurricane plays behind him. He shivers through a howling blizzard, capturing exactly the sentiment of anyone living in the “four’easter” plagued Northeast.
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He doesn't just give the weather. He is the weather.
“Yesterday was the first day of spring and you know what that means,” he says, dancing with the onscreen revelers on a beach. “Spring break!"
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The video went up on YouTube on Wednesday, the first full day of spring, and it was the No. 6 trending video on the site Friday morning with more than 1.2 million views.
There’s nothing not to love about Carden’s video.
The weather forecast video assignment to the kindergarten kids was by design a family project. Dad Charlie Corts works at a Nashville design studio, and he brought both expertise and props to the project.
"I work at Rated Red, a design studio in Nashville, and we have a green screen video in our office so when I saw this assignment I felt like I had been waiting my whole life for this," Charlie Corts told The Tennessean. "No seriously, I thought it was something we could have fun with."
The scene that seems to put Carden in the eye of a hurricane was created with a leaf blower, Charlie told The Tennessean.
Carden’s fame got him a spot with meteorologist Danielle Breezy on WKRN-TV, where he shared some of his dance moves and gave the weather.
Image and video via YouTube/Charlie Corts
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