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June Esther Bacon-Bercey (née Griffin, October 23, 1928 – July 3, 2019) was an American international expert on weather and aviation [1] who worked for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Weather Service and the Atomic Energy Commission.
Richard Duane Goddard [2] (February 24, 1931 – August 4, 2020) was an American television meteorologist, author, cartoonist, and animal activist.. From 1966 until his retirement in 2016, he was the evening meteorologist at WJW-TV in Cleveland, Ohio.
Ernest Gold was born at Berkswell, near Coventry, Warwickshire, in 1881. [4] His parents were John Gold, a tenant farmer, and Ellen Gold née Peckett. [2] He was educated at Coleshill Grammar School and Mason University College (which became the University of Birmingham). [5] Gold then attended St John's College, Cambridge. [6]
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.
Longtime WTOC meteorologist John Wetherbee died Thursday morning, according to several reports. Wetherbee worked in broadcasting more than three decades and was a three-time Emmy Award winner.
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 ...
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 ...