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The forecast was stormy for Al Roker.

The beloved “Today” show weatherman is said to be “steaming mad” that his “Wake Up With Al” show on the Weather Channel was put to sleep Monday after Roker got into an e-mail spat with his boss, David Clark.

The Weather Channel is partly owned by NBCUniversal and the show was said to be a crucial inducement in Roker’s contract negotiations with NBC.

Roker was already in New Orleans and wanted to cover the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, but Clark, president of the Weather Co.’s TV division, insisted on covering Tropical Storm Erika, even though Roker pointed out it wouldn’t arrive in Florida for days, if ever. Erika later petered out into irrelevance.

“Viewers aren’t stupid. They can see when potential landfall is,” Roker wrote in an e-mail to Clark and other Weather Channel execs, according to the Web site NewsBlues.

Clark replied, “If you disagree with a decision you are welcome to speak up . . . but this is out of line and not how we do things here.”

Roker shot back — with the other execs still cc’d on the e-mail — “Really David. You want to try and spank me in front of people.”

In a follow-up e-mail, Roker was contrite, saying that he hadn’t meant to “reply all.” “I didn’t mean for this to be a public argument,” he wrote.