"Weather Warehouse" is a Sam and Friends routine that aired during its last broadcast season on September 29, 1961.[1] It is one of the few shows for which footage survives.
Harry the Hipster begins what he claims is WRC-TV's newest weather show, when Kermit interrupts, stating that Frank Forrester's own weather program has just ended. Harry counters that his show is not about forecasting weather, but rather selling it. He takes Kermit on a tour through "Wholesale Harry's Weather Warehouse," full of crates with various forms of weather at affordable prices.
Harry opens crate after crate, which emanate the sounds of a sunshiny day, thunderstorms, snow, and even a room-shaking earthquake; Kermit finds this all nutty. He does inquire about a teapot marked with the word "Danger." Against Harry's warnings, there is a literal tempest in the teapot, unleashing a huge storm that drives them away. Harry pops back into frame to deliver, "That's squall, folks!," punctuated by an iris out and a recording of "Merrily We Roll Along."
The sketch would go on to be reprised on Today on March 30, 1962. Many years later, a season seven Sesame Street sketch would feature a similar premise, in which Grover the Salesman peddles a weather-making machine to Kermit.