Detroit TV Weatherman Dancing ‘Positivity’ with His Forecasts

By Andre Ash

Mike Taylor has been forecasting the weather for five years at Detroit’s ABC affiliate, WXYZ-TV, Channel 7. He is a part of the station’s First Alert Weather team and can be seen on weekends and periodically through out the weekday. Many viewers may know him from his on-air broadcasting, but some may know him as the dancing weather guy. Taylor has garnered a lot of followers intrigued by his slick moves and style on social media.

In an One-On-One interview with Michigan Chronicle, Taylor recounts a sunny day and being in a good mood when he decided to video lip sync the song, “Happy Feelings” by Maze featuring Frankie Bravely.

“I was just trying to put some positivity out there on social media,” he says. “I posted this video pretending like I’m singing as if I can and I got over 8,000 (views).” He soon realized this spontaneous and cool Instagram reel was the type of content that drew more people than much of his weather content on his personal accounts.

He soon partnered with his colleague and weekend co-anchor Ameera David for a dance street where the aim was to show positivity. They hit it off on the studio floor to a trending social media act in a seven-second video. The moon walk video of the duo hit millions of views online.

“I’m a fan of music,” said Taylor. “I used to dance all the time in high school. I was one of those people who dance around at home and practice.”

“A lot of my dances are one takes. I’d do one take, see how it looks, and just upload it.”

Those natural dance skills seem to be paying off in his free styling moves and slides and sometimes at work across the studio floor.

The Detroit native is recounts being inspired as a kid watching Michael Jackson do the moon walk and taking the time to himself to be intrigued by all types of dance such as salsa, ball room, ballet and spinning.

“Once I realized people started to like it, I realized I had to shake the dust off these knees,” he says in laughter, as he recounts returning to dance after putting it on pause for years after high school.

Dancing is just one of his skillsets. Being from a town of car manufacturing and love for cool vehicles, he attended Mississippi State University where he initially majored in mechan-