Early Monday morning as WZZM-13 Meteorologist Blake Hansen was updating Michigan viewers about a possible winter storm, a small animal darted across the deck from where he was broadcasting.

Was it a raccoon? An opossum? A squirrel?

“Am I going to get rabies today?” Hansen thought to himself. Then, he realized the critter interrupting his weather forecast was a white and black striped cat.

Hansen was standing on the TV station’s weather deck, which overlooks the ABC affiliate station’s parking lot when the cat ran in front of him.

The camera was turned toward the green screen set up behind Hansen, but the meteorologist can be seen jumping back during the newscast as he pointed down at the ground and said, “We have a cat running there on the weather deck right now.”

A few seconds later, a second orange tabby cat ran after the first cat, making Hansen laugh again during the broadcast.

“It was the last weather deck hit of the morning show,” Hansen told MLive/The Grand Rapids Press.

“I felt like I was hearing something, but it was Monday morning, I was trying to catch up on coffee. About a minute into the forecast, I heard a branch snapping. All of a sudden, I was getting into the snow and ice that’s coming and just to the right of the camera, I see something dart onto the weather deck.”

An animal lover himself, once Hansen realized the animal was a cat, he started to laugh. Hansen and his wife have a 1-year-old black lab puppy and an orange cat named Toby.

“It was hilarious,” he said. “I had to get right back into (the weather). Once I came back inside, everybody just was all laughing.

“I was the scaredy-cat this morning.”

The TV station posted the video of Hansen reacting to the cats running across the broadcast online, praising the meteorologist for keeping his cool.

“Blake Hansen is a true professional and kept it together while two stray cats ran at him on our outdoor weather deck this morning!” WZZM-13 posted on social media.

While Hansen will continue to track the coming winter storm throughout the week, he said he hopes the rest of his week is free of surprise cat cameos on air.

“I love my coffee in the morning, but I think this was enough adrenaline” he said.