Eubank joined the
KSL-TV channel 5 Television news team in 1990 as their chief meteorologist. Prior to KSL, he was employed as a meteorologist for
KUTV channel 2 in Utah, a position he had held since 1967. Eubank began his meteorology career at age 24 in
Redding, California, at
KRCR-TV. He attended
UCLA and graduated from the
University of Utah in 1972 with a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology. Eubank also owned and operated a weather consulting firm, WeatherBank, Inc. for 20 years.
Distinction
Eubank was famous for wearing a white sports coat throughout a broadcast preceding or during a snow fall.[1]
Indian weather lore such as a
Thunder Moon[2] and a
Sun dog was often used in his broadcasts.
He was known for his extreme enthusiasm for weather that would usually result in a variety of odd sound effects including: Bing, bowg, boink, boing, boiiiiing, bowk, hah, haaah!, (tearing sound), (squashed sound), ohhhh, goooomph, ziiiing, zoooom, (sound of car stopping suddenly), phhhht, eeerrrrrrumble-rumble-rumble, (slurping sound), sheeewhhhh, oh-oh, vooomph, voom, wonk, vooop, whhktw, waawaa, waaaa, waaam, and zeeek.[3]
"Never trust a split jet stream" was an often repeated phrase during his weather reports.[4]
Eubank also quoted
John Ruskin regularly, saying "There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."[1]
Career highlights
Eubank was the chief meteorologist of the 2002 Winter Olympics.[5]
On November 29, 2006, Eubank signed off the air for the final time. He passed his job and white coat to his son
Kevin Eubank.[1] Shortly after retiring, he and his wife served two Latter-day Saint missions; first one year in
St. George, Utah and then at the Laie Hawaii
temple visitors center for three years where Eubank served as the director of the visitors center.[6]