California Wildfires lead morning shows — except one

It was those winter storms, meanwhile, that made ABC’s “Good Morning America” the lone wolf in not leading with the wildfire story Friday.

Instead, the broadcast’s top story was the winter storm hitting the east coast, though the wildfires were second in line in the show’s teases and covered after the snowstorm in the A block.

For its winter storm coverage, Ginger Zee stood in one of the Times Square Studio’s alcoves, taking full advantage of the video walls to showcase video footage and weather maps, including giving anchor Robin Roberts a “personal” forecast for the Mississippi.

Roberts was traveling to the state after the show and the friendly back and forth and also served to let Zee focus in on a specific region’s weather.

After covering the winter storm, “GMA” switched to meteorologist Rob Marciano, who was dispatched to the fire zone with the lower third insert graphics switching to a “Happening News” banner with a photo of an emergency vehicle driving by a wall of flames in the lower.

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The show also added a red and orange graphic to the upper left corner of the screen that scrolled through data points for the various identified blazes.