Very very sad news indeed.... I was "At The Zoo" with my gradeschool class when we were on TV with dear dear Sonny... he was always so cheerful and funny...

I'll always remember his TV weather forecasts.... especially as was already mentioned his pulling the Keeweenau Peninsula of the map and made that funny sound.... and of course he'd often mention the temperature in "Enga-denga-denga-dine".

I still remember driving down McNichols one day and he gave his famous radio weather report telling about the weather in some foreign location. On that day he said "... the temperature in Athens Greece was [[foreign words)... that's 83 to us here in Michigan... you know Athens... that's where they separate the men from the boys... with a crow bar!"