Jim Cantore Accomplishments

She broadcasted from the devastated Jersey Shore during Hurricane Sandy, the Colorado floods and wildfires, and covered the wreckage from tornados in Moore and El Reno, Oklahoma. In 2013, she covered extreme weather conditions ranging from the Boston blizzard to the record-breaking heat in Death Valley. Zee’s love of adventure does not stop at studying the atmosphere in the center of the storm. She has gone parahawking in Nepal, para-glided from the Himalayas to the Andes, dove with sharks in the Bahamas, rappelled 27 stories down the exterior façade of the Wit Hotel in Chicago, plus has gone ice boat racing and surfing. She has also been a storm chaser since college.

And Corwin said, “ I have been in the wild ever since I was a kid, reading and watching my grandmothers old issues on the national geographic channel and also watching the Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom.” For someone like Corwin, he has always been a nature buff and he made a makeshift nature museum in his apartment in the city, then, when he was obsessed with the rain forest and said “ our planet that is alive is in a rain forest’ because it takes up to 5% of the earth surface but yet the earth is as much as 60% of life, he comes up with some illustration most people do not really understand because mostly what he is about all refers to animals living in both the rain forest and in the tropical part of the world. He says this because we get the most valuable goods from the tropical or the rainforest and that’s where we get food like apple, tomatoes, potatoes to the medicine that fights everything aids and cancer. He has won some notable award in the past years like Corwin won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series for Jeff Corwin Unleashed in 2004, and he was nominated for carrying the record of holding the same awards in the previous years.

Jim was also faced with loosing some people he was very close to cause of the Great Depression. His family friend died living in a terrible environment in the hoovervilles. Jim had to watch as loved ones around him died similar to many families that lived through the Great Depression. Unfortunately, Jim faced many hard times during this time in his life but in the end dealing with all the problems he faced made him stronger.

There is no question that relief efforts and policing of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina should have been handled much differently and that most of the problems that occurred after the storm were man made. Though the political realm of the aftermath created more problems for those truly in need than it helped, Abdulrahman Zeitoun managed to become a hero in a time of desperation. He was able to not only save himself, but helped in keeping those around him alive too. In the face of sheer tragedy and political corruption, Zeitoun became a hero through various individual feats. With his relentless need to help others and intense desire to stay in New Orleans knowing that the storm was coming, Zeitoun managed to have a profound impact on the lives of many.

The predictions of forecast back around in that time, at times, could have been helpful, other times would not. Though the people had forecast predictions, they were often inaccurate. The forecasters, or indication officers, claimed that their predictions were accurate 83.7 percent of the time for the following day. The indication officers were not allowed to say certain things about the predicted forecast, which often affected the communities negatively not only for this certain occasion but for others, as well. For example, an officer could not even say the word tornado in any of their forecast predictions. The coastal cities of the nation thought that they were immune to the disaster of a hurricane, so forecasters would never mention a such a tragic storm in the predictions of the forecast. On top of the believed immunity and forbidden words to be mentioned in forecasts, the method of predictions was not at the best, either. Instead of relying on the physics of a storm and deeply studying it, indication officers turned more to geometry and cartography, the science of drawing maps, to predict where the storm will go. This did not leave the communities vulnerable for just this blizzard, but for pretty much every storm that swept across the nation, as

He has influenced his sons tremendously to become an engineer like him. He has been an engineer for 20 years in the plastic industry. He tells them all about the machinery he is working on, what went wrong with machines, and how to fix them. Jim shows what hard work is by being the head mechanic and oversees all the maintenance to the machines. He tells all the managers of the manufacturing plants what needs to be done to fix the machines. If he is not there the machines are not fixed. With his job he travels all over the world to five different continents. He has to leave his family on Monday and comes home Friday night, about 45 weeks out of the year. He shows hard work because when he comes home he puts the effort and time in to spend with his sons and do what they want before he leaves

Jim had a difficult childhood, but still managed to become as successful as he is. He was born

As the state of our currently understood weather patterns and global climate become more understood, in context, with great concern, the federal government has placed an ever larger portion of its national focus on promoting a more efficient response to such concern via disaster mitigation and management with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. A historical extension of the federal government for which is principle utilized for disaster aid and response, this agency is as much a direct extension of the current presidential administration as it is a crisis agency for social good. This simple description clearly suggests a detailed understanding following the Hurricane Katrina disaster that left the Gulf Coast and New Orleans, in particular, as a study in social failure. But as an agency emboldened by an administration concerned with climate change, FEMA has shown as an agent for change in how it addresses and refocuses states in preparation for the inevitable future climate change.

Greg Forbes was creative and open. Some call meteorology a guessing game, and not a science, so maybe he had to be creative to begin with. Working under the great Dr. Ted Fujita, Forbes expanded the Fujita scale to involve path and width along with Fujita’s original wind speed determination of tornadoes. He also expanded the field of tornado research by examining the possibility of multi-vortex tornadoes, helping confirm that hook echoes indicate tornadoes along with serving as the field manager of Project NIMROD, determining the effects of wind damage associated with downbursts and microbursts. Clearly by his involvement in so many research projects, Forbes had an open and creative mind.

Weather can play an enormous role in historical events that are remembered decades, and even centuries, after they happen. It can turn small events that would go unnoticed in history to events that are remembered as some of the most important in world history. Until relatively recently, when the Weather Bureau was formed in 1870, we lacked the capability to forecast the weather and prevent incidents like these (Robbins). Even though weather reporting from that moment on would become widespread across the country, it would not be enough to prevent disasters such as the Challenger disaster that rocked the country on a chilly day in 1986.

There has been a great development in the way the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) responds to natural disasters. Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Sandy, and wildfires in California are three major disasters that required a large FEMA response and recovery effort. These three natural disasters stressed the resources and abilities FEMA has in their arsenal. As any good organization does, FEMA learned from their experiences and mistakes in order to handle the next challenge they have to face accordingly. Hurricane Katrina affected over 15 million people, caused $81 billion in property damages, and 90,000 square miles (11 Facts About Hurricane Katrina). There was much controversy over the response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency

Wrongberight, Virginia is a rural farming community, and its residents depend on accurate weather reports. The locals believe, those profession meteorologists could not predict rain, even if raindrops were falling on their head. On Thursday the local weather guru of Wrongberight, Charlie Jones, age eleven forecast a ten-hour deluge would hit on Friday. It did. In fact it dumps eight addition inches of rain, to the already, saturated farmer’s fields and woodlands from the previous intermittent rainstorm that he also predicted. According to him, that storm on Friday was just a prelude to another storm that will strike Wrongberight, sometime early Saturday night. He also said, that this kind of storm would produce, at least one or two unique

On the day the stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair, The National Weather Service provided information throughout the day, warning people in the Indianapolis area about a severe thunderstorm that would be approaching the area (Witt Associations, 2012). Ray Allison, the ISFC Director of Public Safety and Logistics periodically checked with the local National Weather Service office for updates and the status of the storm. On two occasions, he relayed the weather information to ISFC personnel. After 7:00p.m., he advised ISFC personnel that heavy rain, high winds, hail and lightning will be in the area between 9:00 and 9:30p.m. Around 8:00 p.m., executive director Hoye, held a meeting to discuss the implications of the forecast for the

This article discusses how catastrophic storms were very extreme this year, in line with climate change predictions. It mentions an article from Lancet Magazine that states" the volume of rain and flooding occurring over the past few weeks is "unprecedented and difficult to comprehend". Hurricane Harvey was Huston’s third 500-year flood in the last three years. Even though this is happening the odds of a hurricane hitting the east coast are still the same as 100 years ago. There is still disagreement in their scientific community whether or not global warming has contributed directly to these recent catastrophic weather events. It’s really impossible to say, but one thing is for sure, “the planet will be fine no matter what we human do". Theirs

In August of 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall in southern Texas, breaking precipitation records and causing billions of dollars of damage in the process. Further, the 2017 hurricane season was one of the costliest tropical seasons on record. Such a significant disaster sparked conversation nationwide over the impact of climate change in relation to severe weather. However, scientists continue to disagree on whether climate change impacted Hurricane Harvey. Some believe that climate change worsened Harvey’s extreme behavior, while others deny that climate change was the culprit. Based on recent research, there is sufficient evidence available to believe that the current trend in climate change impacts hurricanes by intensifying them.