Gary Lezak is one of the most familiar and popular faces on Kansas City television, a six-time Emmy Award winner who has delivered impressively accurate weather forecasts on NBC affiliate KSHB since 1996. He has taken his passion and expertise to a new medium, children’s books, collaborating with Topeka, Kansas, illustrator Rob Peters on It's a Sunny Life: An Adventure Fit for Rain or Shine.

It features Lezak’s pet weather dog Sunny, a warm storyline, and a special section – Sunny’s Weather Academy – providing entertaining answers to an array of weather-related questions. Lezak, who also writes for the popular daily weather blog Weather2020, discusses and reads from the newly released book.

Please note the 7 p.m. start (to accommodate Lezak’s TV duties).