May the 4th Be With You, and So Will These Wild Holidays You Never Knew Existed

Monday, May 4th, 2026, is not just a day for lightsabers and Jedi greetings. Weatherman Jerry Steffen took a break from the forecast to walk us through some of the most surprising, fascinating, and downright delightful holidays hiding on today's calendar, and he brought a two-question orange-themed pop quiz along for the ride.

It is National Weather Observers Day, a salute to the amateur and professional volunteers who monitor and report weather conditions across the country. Here in the Coachella Valley, there are only two government-owned weather reporting stations. Everything else is publicly owned, and that community data is essential to putting together the forecast you see every morning. Pretty incredible when you think about it.

It is also National Dave Brubeck Day, and the timing could not be more perfect. The jazz legend's all-time classic "Take Five" was recorded in 5/4 time, and today's date is, well, 5/4. That is not a coincidence, that is a holiday doing its job correctly.

Of course, the whole world knows it is International Star Wars Day. May the 4th be with you, always.

And rounding out the morning? National Orange Juice Day, which just so happens to tie perfectly into today's pop quiz theme.

🍊 Put Your Knowledge to the Test

Jerry served up two orange-themed questions for the studio, and now it is your turn. Watch the video above to find out the answers, but first, see how you do on your own!

1) Four current NFL teams use some variation of orange as an official team color, and all four have nicknames starting with the letter B, the Bears, Bengals, Browns, and Broncos. But one NFL team used to rock a distinctive creamsicle orange look before ditching it after the 1996 season. Which team was it?

A) Buffalo Bills

B) New York Giants

C) Tampa Bay Buccaneers

2) The frantic fiddle classic "Orange Blossom Special" was written by Irvin T. Rouse in 1938 and has since been covered by legends from Chet Atkins and Vassar Clemens to Johnny Cash and Charlie Daniels. But according to its own songwriter, what was the inspiration behind the title?

A) An American Civil War Regiment

B) A deluxe passenger train

C) The state flower of Florida

Think you got them right? Watch the video to see how the studio team did.