Extreme Weather: Tornado Season Teach-Out

Jeff Masters, Ph.D., is the Director of Meteorology for the Weather Underground. Jeff grew up in suburban Detroit, and attended the University of Michigan, where he received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Meteorology in 1982 and 1983, respectively. While working on his Master’s degree, he participated in field programs studying acid rain in the Northeast U.S. and air pollution in the Detroit area. In 1986, he took a position teaching weather forecasting to undergraduates at SUNY Brockport in New York, then later that year moved to Miami to join the Hurricane Hunters as a flight meteorologist for NOAA's Aircraft Operations Center. While working on his Ph.D., he co-founded The Weather Underground, Inc. in 1995. He wrote much of the software that ingests and formats the raw NWS data used on the website, and created most of the imagery on the tropical page. Jeff currently serves as Director of Meteorology and on the Board of Directors for the company. Jeff contributes frequently to his popular weather blog, Category 6.

In this segment with Perry, Jeff will speak about what would happen if a tornado hit a large city, like Chicago or Dallas, and what would the implications be. He will also talk about the future of tornadoes and what might happen as the climate continues to get warmer.