Al Roker grew up watching animated shows long before he was a star on TV.

“I spent a lot of Saturday mornings in front of the TV,” he says. “I was one of those kids who waited with bated breath because going back to school in the fall meant that the fall preview edition of the TV Guide was coming out that had all the listings of all the new cartoons.”

This fall, everyone's favorite weatherman is getting a kick out of launching his own educational cartoon TV show — "Weather Hunters," which premieres Monday on PBS Kids.

“This project really is like — not to use a negative term — but almost like a perfect storm, a nexus of everything I love: My family, weather and animation,” Roker says.

What's the show about?

Roker voices a younger version of himself named Al Hunter, a TV meteorolog

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