STORM2K

Can anyone out there suggest a location on the internet where I might find information about famous names in weather? I'm talking more along the lines of historical figures rather than someone like Al Roker. Thanks for your help!

For starters...

Isaac Monroe Cline (one of the forecasters during the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900)

Here are a few names to search... John Hope, Ted Fujita, and Jose Fernandez-Partagas.

not to mention Saffir and Simpson.

also you can try this site about inventors of weather related instruments.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inve ... eather.htm

When I think about Al Roker, i think about those TV newscasters who are given a script and told to forecast the weather, even though they couldnt read a basic weather map. I may be wrong, though, but thats the feeling i get from him.

WaitingForSiren wrote:When I think about Al Roker, i think about those TV newscasters who are given a script and told to forecast the weather, even though they couldnt read a basic weather map. I may be wrong, though, but thats the feeling i get from him.

I strongly doubt Al and other forecasters would be able to graduate from a college met program without passing a basic weather map reading course.

Yes but he doesn't seem very professional, pretty lamen.

WaitingForSiren wrote:Yes but he doesn't seem very professional, pretty lamen.

For myself personally I've never had a problem with Al.