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Emmy Award Winning Chief Meteorologist @WOODTV - CBM & NWA Certified - Adjunct Prof @ValpoU

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@ellenbacca
Ellen Bacca
8 years
ARE YOU KIDDING ME THIS IS THE COOLEST!!
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CONFIRMED: Monette Manor a nursing home in Monette, Arkansas took a direct hit by a very large tornado & collapsed with patients inside. Docs/RNs are pleading for help.
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1 year
Cottonwood BLIZZARD in East Grand Rapids today! Video by Sarah Massie.
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2 years
BLIZZARD OF 2022 • GRAND HAVEN, MICHIGAN Picture by Brian Caswell.
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Ellen Bacca
3 years
@GRapidsnews I would say delete this tweet. But hopefully it stands as an example of the real microaggressions people of color are getting lobbed at them on a daily basis.
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Excellent video of a tornadic supercell cutting across the Kalamazoo/Barry County line. You can see the clear rotation of the storm along with the definite lowering of the wall cloud. Video sent to us by Marina VanOver. #StormHour
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1 year
The newsroom is not standing for it. Not only is it incredibly offensive to suggest Pride events be covered less than others -- the fact we were mandated to "curb our coverage" to appeal to a political belief goes against the very heart of what journalism is supposed to be.
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1 year
A Grand Rapids TV station reportedly told its staff to cover less Pride events because of conservative viewers. A memo said “If we are covering Pride events, we need to consider how to make the story balanced and get both sides of the issue.”
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3 years
This is an honor of a lifetime. I have some very big shoes to fill! I won't let you down Bill.
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WOOD TV8
3 years
It's the same Storm Team 8, but a new chief! We're proud to announce that @ellenbacca has been named the first female chief meteorologist in West Michigan:
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Ellen Bacca
6 years
Most meteorologists at . @NWS rarely get the credit they deserve. Today's text forecast from . @NWSGrandRapids had a sweet farewell hidden inside. Help me give this forecaster a round of applause and a big thank you for 31 years of service!
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Ellen Bacca
7 years
TOMORROW IS FRIDAY THE 13TH!! IN OCTOBER!
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Ellen Bacca
2 years
ALL WOMEN CREW tonight both on-cam and behind the scenes! Sports, Weather, Anchors, Producer, Director, Floor Director, Camera Opps. A WOOD TV first!
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Ok very cool night. Honestly I’m still beside myself. I won not one, but two Emmys tonight! My very first ones. With COVID we didn’t have a ceremony or trophies. But my sweet husband bought me pineapples just in case I won!! Big thank you to my @WOODTV family Life goal complete✔️
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Ellen Bacca
4 years
Honestly, my favorite part of the newscast is now Bill's live shots from home!
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Ellen Bacca
1 year
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! ☘️
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1 year
PURE. MICHIGAN.
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1 year
When you ask your intern to FREE HAND DRAW MICHIGAN and it turns out like THIS?! @wx_woods
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Ellen Bacca
3 years
Absolute BEHEMOTH off the shore of Empire, MI earlier this evening caught by @LukeStier . 😱 #stormhour
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Ellen Bacca
2 years
Should someone check on the @meijer clerks 😳
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Ellen Bacca
5 years
We may not use this weather camera tonight.
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3 years
Never have I ever seen a line of storms contour lower Michigan so perfectly!! Like?!?!?!👀👀👀👀👀
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Ellen Bacca
4 years
Look who stopped by just in time for our evening news! Love our accidental “Falcon Cam” 😍
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5 years
WMU’s football field today! 😱 Taken by Ericka Perkowski
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2 years
What a grab -- IT'S A PURE MICHIGAN CLOUD!! Complete with both an Upper and Lower Peninsula. 📷Brandi Smith
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Ellen Bacca
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This letter is going in the “keep forever” pile. I bet she does it, too.
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2 years
Yesterday, as seen from space. ❤️‍🔥
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2 years
WINTER'S FURY! - BLIZZARD OF 2022 Grand Haven, Michigan John Mulder #stormhour
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Ellen Bacca
3 years
Let’s show some love to those low numbers, ya? Other meteorologists out there, I know you must see this too?
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Ellen Bacca
3 years
PURE LAKE EFFECT BABY!! Look at this snowflake size!!
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Ellen Bacca
2 years
Ok this is so wild!! Conditions were perfect for the morning sun to melt all the snow EXCEPT for in the shadows of the trees. As a result—- perfect shadows were etched in snowflakes on a morning pond outside of viewer Richard Attinoto’s home. Wow!
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@ellenbacca
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My one maternity photo! Thank you for all the love, prayers, & support! 🤍 I’ve decided to start my leave today to unplug & de-stress. Please continue to follow my stellar colleagues for timely weather updates! @matthewkirkwood @SaraFlynnWX @wxblakeharms @terrideboer
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Ellen Bacca
7 years
Spectacular striations with this incoming group of showers and storms in St Joseph.
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Ellen Bacca
4 years
I won my first solo MAB tonight! Best Weathercast in Michigan Division two!
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7 years
The Northern Lights last night topped with a fireball. Alberta, CA: Natural Impressions Graphics & Photography ☄️
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2 years
Got to see my grandparents for the first time since COVID! What a treat. 🤍
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11 months
39 weeks and 5 days! I feel as big and bright as the Super Blue Moon herself. 🌝
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Ellen Bacca
5 years
Today is my five year anniversary at WOOD TV! I love you West Michigan! Thank you for having me all these years!
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3 years
Pure Michigan? More like Pure Gold! Photo of tonight’s sunset from Grand Haven, Michigan by @electrospaceman #PureMichigan
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Ellen Bacca
1 year
Polar Bear sighting in Grand Haven. Picture by Calla Compton.
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1 year
Bunpin’ today! Feeling grateful for every pound.🤍
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Ellen Bacca
4 years
I'm getting sassy in my 30s. ;)
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5 years
It doesn’t help we work at “WOOD” TV 😬😬😂😂😂
@lynseymukomel
Lynsey Mukomel
5 years
Well, friends. This is what came in the mail. I’m gonna need something else, please.
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2 years
Beaver Island tonight by Mindy Tiede!
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5 years
Our “weather girls” on staff have meteorology degrees. Pretty sure we covered hail formation in our first semester of our first year of college. Fun fact: it can happen year round. Thanks tho Paula ;)
@Matt_Jaworowski
matt jaworowski
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Thank YOU, Paula. Not just rude and disrespectful, but factually wrong. Crushing it!
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It’s a winter wonderland in Grand Rapids for the first day of December! ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
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4 years
You won’t see me on TV tonight! For the first time in 8 years I now have weekends off!! It’s only temporary, for the summer, but man does it feel nice!! ☀️
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Ellen Bacca
4 years
Pure fire tonight from our South Haven buoy cam. 🔥
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Ellen Bacca
3 years
CONFIRMED: Monette Manor a nursing home in Monette, Arkansas took a direct hit by a very large tornado & collapsed with patients inside. Docs/RNs are pleading for help.
@brianemfinger
Brian Emfinger
3 years
Just a heartbreaking scene at Monette Manor Nursing Home. Prayers that somehow everyone is ok. #arwx
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4 years
SIX years here! Incredibly, incredibly grateful for every moment. Thank you for helping me grow West Michigan 💙
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3 years
Just because there isn’t snow doesn’t mean Michigan can’t be stunning. Credit: Ryan Burger
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Ellen Bacca
1 year
A friend just texted to remind me today marks two years of being Chief! How is that possible?! I am so incredibly grateful for this opportunity and especially my kick butt team. There’s so much that I still want to do! Thank you for everything- here’s to another year ahead! 💙8️⃣
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Finished!! My goal by today was the full, but I am proud of the half. Last year I could barely muster a mile. While this has been a year of great highs, it has also contained my deepest lows. Success is not one-size-fits all. Life can be beautiful around any bend. ☀️
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Greg and Lori Higgins view from Mendon, Michigan this evening.
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Ellen Bacca
2 years
Lake Michigan always comes through.
@pmumbower
Pete
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@ellenbacca can we get some cheers for the protective warmth the Great Lakes give us? #wmiwx
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Happy 70th Birthday to the one, the only, the Chief, the King—- Mr. @bsteffen !!! What an incredible human being, mentor, and friend. Help me wish him the happiest of days!!
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3 years
I'm sorry, but how incredible is this? Quintessential Lake Effect over here with the coldest air of the season pouring in.
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1 year
The sky was wide awake last night at Sleeping Bear Dunes! Greenville native Rod Pentoney made the drive for the show and it did not disappoint.
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Snow is starting to accumulate in Ironwood, Michigan! The first Winter Storm Warning of the season for our state has been issued for portions of the Upper Peninsula where as much as 18" of snow may fall by Tuesday morning! 😲
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You all know @ginger_zee is incredible on-air. But she is even MORE incredible behind the scenes. Just this month she gifted me and my coworkers a ton of her clothes as a way to reduce, re-use, and recycle! Also huge thanks to @ericdush for taking these stellar Kalamazoo shots!
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5 years
First time in 8 years! 🤦‍♀️🤣 You're welcome, @traffictom8
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7 years
Incredible video of the Washburn,IL #tornado by . @valpoU student, Erika Goshorn. Full video: . @Ginger_Zee #stormhour
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4 years
I'm not sure we've ever had three Storm Team 8 meteorologists that were all WOMEN. Cool moment, despite the storms.
@terrideboer
Terri DeBoer
4 years
Proud to cover today’s outbreak of severe storms with these smart and talented ladies! @Emily_Schuitema @ellenbacca @terrideboer #greatteam
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3 years
Big crashers today with winds gusting in the 50 mph range! Picture by @electrospaceman
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Aerial view of a damage swath on 12th , just south of Centre in Portage by Mike Huber.
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4 years
THEY CAME IN!
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4 years
YEE-IKES! 🤯
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3 years
The moment you realize it is time to get inside... Traverse City - Rusty Williams. #stormhour
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4 years
Do I spot @bsteffen on Jimmy Kimmel?!
@JimmyKimmelLive
Jimmy Kimmel Live
4 years
Meteorologists' pets don't care about the weather.... #JimmyKimmelLiveFromHisHouse #StayHome
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Ellen Bacca
4 years
Last year I was @bsteffen .... This year I am BILL’S MAN CAVE! #2020 @WOODTV
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2 years
The Gales of November. Taken by Larry Hall at Grand Haven beach on 11/5/22. #StormHour
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4 years
If you’re one of my followers from outside of Michigan and every time I take a picture of the sunshine and winter you’re “like what’s the big deal? It’s the sun.” Just be happy for us, OK? 😂
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3 years
Here's to you #BettyWhite 💔 The Michigan Snow Plow in honor of you is riding strong tonight. @MDOT_Southwest @MDOT_West
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5 years
This is my first Christmas tree in seven years! I know he’s tiny but I love him! 😂
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9 months
Pure Michigan
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6 years
If we get 100 likes on this tweet I will 🤣
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6 years
GORGEOUS display of gravity waves as rain is forced into a stable environment triggering an oscillation. You can see the lines preceding the rain- this is evidence of the undulation!
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3 years
Pure Michicken.
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2 years
Incredible video slowed down of the intense straight line winds that rolled into downtown Grand Rapids last night. Huge shout out to @WxBrenn for this (and for slowing it down). Note the power flashes. Velocity data coming in at 70-80mph just above ground level. @NWSGrandRapids
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WHOA! I don't think I've ever seen this before! You can see the lightning flashes from incoming storms reflecting off the buildings in downtown Grand Rapids!
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Ellen Bacca
4 years
A dark shelf sweeping in low above a field of sunflowers 🌻 Thanks to Jason Helmer for this. #stormhour
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2 months
When sunset still lingers at 10:05 p.m. 💯
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3 years
Absolutely stunning sky in downtown Grand Rapids right now! If anyone else gets a better shot, let me know!😍
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2 years
Real Talk. @WaffleHouse
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1 year
Gross. Smoke that traveled into Ohio is going to backwash into Michigan AGAIN tomorrow. Air quality will likely be worse than it was today.
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Ellen Bacca
4 years
Look who is back in studio!! The Great @bsteffen !!
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1 year
Unforgettable. Today is the 25th anniversary of the 1998 derecho— the worst thunderstorm to roll through Michigan on record. It also goes down as one of the most powerful storm complexes to have ever formed in the nation.
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7 years
Ribbon-dancing land spout would rather entertain than destroy. Says he prefers "a more peaceful path" than his tornadic parents #StormHour
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2 years
Who else in West Michigan saw this tonight? This sweet Shadow Ray occurs when there is a storm so far in the distance it casts a shadow clear across the sky. The storms that caused this shadow were in northwest Wisconsin!
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5 years
For those of you who just watched me do 20 minutes of weather and didn't change the channel... thank you! 🤣🤣🤣
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7 years
WINTER WATERSPOUT! ❄️🌪️❄️🌪️❄️🌪️❄️ This spun into Leelanau County, MI amidst the lake effect snow! Taken by James and Jen Lawson. #stormhour
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Dr. Says I should gain a couple lbs and @SaraFlynnWX brought cookies. I will take this as a sign from God.
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2 years
THIS TEAM ❤️8️⃣⚡️
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2 years
ALL WEATHER themed pumpkins!?! Be still my heart! ❤️🧡🤍
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2 years
Look at this absolute beast of a storm! This was the view of the Severe Thunderstorm moving onshore in South Haven, Michigan tonight. Thousands are without power. Credit to Radiant Landscapes Photography for this.
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2 years
I want to poke fun at this SO BADLY but goodness knows my typo count is way too high for me to have any higher ground. 😂😂😂
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SPECTACULAR sun pillar over Lake Michigan last night framed by a snow-covered dune. Snapped by Jeremy Church #wmwix #stormhour
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5 years
Unpopular opinion: If you are talking more about Trump than you are about Jesus, you might be more of an American than a Christian.
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Stunner at Holland State Park. Shot by Michael Barnhart.
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