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In the 1960s, Bacon-Bercey rejoined NOAA in its New York City offices as a radar meteorologist. [9] In 1971, she joined WGR-TV as a news reporter, in which role she covered the Attica Prison riot. [14] In 1972, she became the station's on-air meteorologist after the previous meteorologist was arrested for bank robbery. [3]
First weatherman to issue a televised tornado warning Harry Volkman (April 18, 1926 – August 20, 2015) was an American meteorologist [ 1 ] and the first weatherman to issue a televised tornado warning .
Harold Earnest Taft Jr. (September 5, 1922 – September 27, 1991), affectionately known as "The World's Greatest Weatherman" and "The Dean of TV Meteorologists", was the first television meteorologist west of the Mississippi River and held the post for a record 41 years.
The first television image of Earth from space from the TIROS-1 weather satellite. 1959 – The first weather satellite, Vanguard 2, was launched on February 17. It was designed to measure cloud cover, but a poor axis of rotation kept it from collecting a notable amount of useful data.
Irving P. Krick (1906 – June 20, 1996) was an American meteorologist and inventor, the founding professor of Department of Meteorology at California Institute of Technology (1933–1948), one of the U.S. Air Force meteorologists who provided forecasts for the Normandy Landings in 1944, a controversial pioneer of long-term forecasting and cloud seeding, and "a brilliant American salesman" [1 ...
The former chief meteorologist — once described by The News & Observer as the Triangle’s most famous weatherman — in early August launched a subscription-based Patreon account, where he ...
At first, she thought the weather predictions of a frozen landscape in the South were a hoax. Now watching schools and major highways close, she regrets failing to buy a shovel before the storm hit.
Gary England (born October 3, 1939) is the former chief meteorologist for KWTV (channel 9), the CBS-affiliated television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.England was the first on-air meteorologist to alert his viewers of a possible tornado using a commercial Doppler weather radar. [2]