''Atmospheres'' was a weekly television series on

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. The series, hosted by meteorologists

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and

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, featured current weather news and information. Some of the original segments included "Feature of the Week", dramatic rescue stories from inclement weather (which would set the tone for ''

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''); "Destinations", which highlighted exotic locales; "In The Elements", profiles of people working in extreme weather (a forerunner to '' Epic Conditions''), and a unique weather story that varied with each episode. Each episode contained three local and two national forecasts. Originally, ''Atmospheres'' aired new episodes on Sundays at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m.

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, Wednesdays at 8 p.m., and Saturdays at 5 p.m. Encore episodes aired on Saturdays at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. and Sundays at 5 p.m. In January 2003, when the award-winning drama ''Storm Stories'' premiered, new episodes of ''Atmospheres'' no longer aired. Reruns still aired on weekends until the end of summer 2003 when ''Storm Stories'' started airing every night. Since then, ''Atmospheres'' has not been on The Weather Channel's programming schedule; however, ''Atmospheres'' was the first entry of an initiative proposed in 2000 (by Jim Alexander, former head of viewer research) for creating a defining signature long-form program like ''Storm Stories'', ''

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'' and '' When Weather Changed History''. Cantore's new show, ''Storm Stories'' premiered the same night ''Atmospheres'' had ended.

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