Career
He joined in 1977 as KOMO"s principal science reporter, in addition to serving as weekend news anchor and weather forecaster. In 1984, he became KOMO"s primary weather forecaster after the retirement of longtime KOMO weather anchor Ray Ramsey. That same year, he began hosting a program on KOMO-television titled "Front Runners" which aired every Saturday at 7:30PM on KOMO. The show would soon pick up nationwide syndication and featured the stories of people who beat all odds or had a unique talent, et cetera
The show ended in 1996.
KOMO News anchors Dan Lewis, Kathi Goertzen, and Steve Pool had the third longest-running tenure out of any news team in America, having worked together at KOMO-television from 1987 until 2009. Additionally, he is the author of a book about weather and its forecasting, titled "Somewhere, I Was Right."
During the 1990s, Steve Pool hosted a video series titled I Wanna Be..(astronaut, construction worker, pilot, television news reporter, ship captain, etc).
This series is now part of the "Little Steps" Digital Video Disc series. In 1992 Steve Pool actually interviewed a young Bruno Mars, who was then doing an Elvis impersonation show.
