Grew up on a Wisconsin dairy farm with 10 brothers & sisters. BS Geological Engineering & Geology Wisconsin. MS Atmospheric Science UCLA. Meteorologist
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#BlueSpring
State Park today, four shy of this season’s record. Officials believe we’ll break the all-time record for number of manatees here within the next two months.
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11pm update...center of cone shifted a little south and east of Orlando. One of the things we're watching out for is a very heavy swath of rain on the north side of the core of Ian as it passes through. Flood threat is heightened through Thursday.
Orlando just added to the hurricane warning...if you were watching our newscast on Channel 9, you heard some of our phone's alerts going off as the alert came out.
Blue and yellow lighting up Lake Eola tonight.
The City of Orlando tweets: "Our city stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine and our community's residents with Ukrainian roots."
Did you see this yet?...a strong storm with a confirmed tornado hit
#Tavares
,
#Florida
today, then we received this video from adjacent Lake Eustis. Video Credit: Kara Sparks
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#StormAlert9
Orlando, The Villages, Sanford, Daytona Beach under a Tropical Storm Watch...Brevard County under hurricane watch. Coastal erosion a big threat over the next few days...still looking into the heavy rain and flooding threat with Nicole.
The next track update will be at 5pm...concerns at this point include a slow moving major hurricane for multiple days off Florida's west coast driving in dangerous storm surge there, and a risk of flash flooding for us in here Central Florida.
Goin’ with the flow...Just made it back home after trekking through parts of Central
#America
. It’s good to be back feeling the much cooler, drier
#Florida
air this morning, and the
#LakeEola
#duck
welcome parade is nice too.
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#Orlando
Wow! Check out this funnel cloud over The Villages from this evening's storms. No reports of a touchdown at this point, but we received a lot of pics and were watching the storm closely. Thanks to Steve Turnipseed for sending this pic.
@NWSTampaBay
Each forecast cone issued for
#Dorian
in succession vs. real track after passing
#PuertoRico
...very skillful track forecast by
@NHC_Atlantic
, intensity and timing had challenges but were consistently addressed by forecaster.
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#FLwx
#Florida
Electric!
#CocoaBeach
#lightning
tonight was intense.
We had our tower cam pointed over the water and here are some of the brightest shots of the night.
#Florida
They’re coming...
Human crowds have disappeared from Gatorland, but the alligators still congregate. Today’s story, what the park is doing to reach guests who can no longer visit.
Wow!
Although very scary looking, these shelf clouds are quite common over Florida this time of year as storms approach. This pic was taken yesterday from Ormond Beach. Photo credit: MissiJedi Knight Juergens.