The French Ministry struck a nerve with many a Clevelander after it recently issued a travel warning deeming three Cleveland neighborhoods unsafe.

But none seem to be more upset than Power of 5 Chief Meteorologist Mark Johnson, who’s taken to social media to express his outrage.

Last night, his weather report was a snarky two-word update:

Since then, he’s gone on to ban all things French-

Note to France, don’t mess with our suburban neighborhoods and don’t mess with our weather guy.

This article appears in Nov 13-19, 2013.

Alaina Nutile is the Web Editor who oversees all digital content and social media initiatives for Cleveland Scene Magazine and Detroit Metro Times. Before joining the staff in June 2013, she interned at Business Insider in New York City, and at La Hora in Quito, Ecuador. Alaina is a graduate of Kalamazoo College in Michigan, where she double majored in English and Spanish. Her interests include Japanese food, Breaking Bad, and career development advising.

11 replies on “Cleveland Meteorologist Mark Johnson is Pissed About the French Ministry’s Travel Warning”

  3. Three cities in Cleveland? How about the whole country? A land full of warmongering, blood thirsty, blood sucking barbarians!!!!!! France’s words were NICE.

  5. Phuuu….Go to Oakland, Chicago( and I LOVE Chicage) or NYC…
    Thats just the tip of the iceburg…
    How about Detroit???

    Cle has NOTHING on these cities….

    Dumbass cheese eating surrenderheads…(Just quoted Homer Simpson btw…)

  6. Johnson is a climate denier…. He is Tea Party Kool-Aid drinker…..And I don’t trust his lousy weather reports anyway…..

  8. don’t have to be politically affliated to deny bad science, Scott. global warming has been swapped for “climate change” by politicians because the warming is not occurring like the wild predictions they theorized. arctic ice grew by 60% over the last year to its highest point in 30 years because the earth is in a cooling period. climates change happens all the time but when it’s exploited by scum like al gore so a carbon credit market can be established to create a billion $ industry, thats a red flag. gore stands to make billions selling these credits if cap and trade is established and its all bs. it’s not about saving the environment, it’s about making money off of companies who emit too much CO2. don’t trust what you hear from either political side. they are both scummy and corrupt

  9. France is absolutely correct! Cleveland is not safe. Mayor Jackson has a real do-nothing safety director, Martin Flask. Flask should have been fired a long time ago. You know it and I know it that Cleveland has a very high crime rate. How many murders this year so far? I lost count.

  10. Why isn’t anybody commenting on his misogyny? “Keep the French Maids…” — seriously? Nice bullshit sexist stereotype. Mark Johnson is super disgusting.

    Here’s a story for you, Scene:

    On July 23 of this year, I was watching Channel 5’s live radar feed online because serious storms were in my area. As the radar feed ran, nobody noticed that Mark Johnson’s mike was still live. So I — and anybody else viewing the webpage — could hear what was being said in the newsroom. There was general chitchat, a lot of things I could only half-hear, and then I heard Mark Johnson say, as clear as anything, this: “…barbituate…methamphetamine…mix in a little date rape…” After that the voice of whoever he was speaking to was heard — too muffled for me to make out. There was laughter.

    Next to the live radar feed there is a chat box where you can comment. I commented on what I heard. Nobody from Channel 5 responded.

    I sent an email to Channel 5 explaining what I heard and how disgusted I was. I got no response.

    A while later I noticed that Mark Johnson was subscribed to my facebook page. Because I had used my facebook credentials to log in to the chat to express my disgust at what Mark Johnson had said, he was able to find me on facebook and follow me. What a creepy creeper! I didn’t ask to hear what I heard — trust me, I didn’t WANT to hear it — but in some sort of creepy retaliation, his response to me hearing what I heard was to stalk me on facebook. I blocked the creepy little fucker, obviously.

    I wonder how many women he’s sexually assaulted in his lifetime. I feel so much pity for any women or girls in his life. Ick, ick, ick.

  11. Is he from West Virginia? For years, I’ve known a musician from down that way who looks a lot like…and sounds a lot like…the Ch. 5 weather dude. They could pass for brothers…they have the same facial features and the same accents.

    And I’m not getting this from TV, since I’ve met Mark Johnson…it was during the Home and Garden Show at the I-X Center. I told him he had a twin brother from West Virginia. He didn’t laugh. Just smirked.

    So he’s a Tea Party denier? Well, Andre Bernier of Fox-8 is a born again Bible thumper, and a wingnut who makes Mark Johnson look like a Communist. Andre’s Farcebook page and blog make you want to vomit.

    My favorite all-time weather guy, from my hometown of Chicago…the man who gave me my lifelong interest in weather…wrote a self-published bio…and he made himself sound like a neo-Nazi. But I still love the guy anyway. As long as these jamokes keep their politics off the tube and out of their forecasts, they’re okay by me.

    Now that Dick Goddard is practically senile, Mark and Bruce K. (of Ch. 3) are the best we’ve got.

    Chuckles the Clown

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