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Jeff Masters, co-founder of Weather Underground, writes timely and authoritative weather and climate analyses for Yale Climate Connections. Read his posts on the Eye on the Storm area of the website and join the comment tool to engage with him and other followers.
May 14, 2024 · Jeff Masters is a former NOAA Hurricane Hunter and the co-founder of Weather Underground. He writes about extreme weather and climate change for Yale Climate Connections, a nonprofit news site.
Jun 12, 2020 · Dr. Jeff Masters is a meteorologist and the co-founder of Weather Underground, a website that provides weather news and data. He also writes a blog called Category 6, where he covers topics such as climate change, hurricanes, and extreme weather events.
Jeff Masters is a meteorologist and co-founder of Weather Underground. Follow him on Twitter to get his insights on climate change, extreme weather, and the latest scientific research. He also shares his personal stories, photos, and opinions on various topics. Join the conversation with @DrJeffMasters.
- The Hurricane Season of 2005
- Katrina
- The Wunderful Craziness of The Blog Comments
- Three Thousand Posts and Millions of Comments Later: The End of The Rainbow
- A New Blog at Scientific American
- Final Kudos
By mid-May, I was having trouble thinking of topics to write about again, and I was relieved when hurricane season finally arrived. I put up my first tropical weather post, Odd Adrian, on May 20, 2005, discussing an odd-duck Eastern Pacific hurricane named Adrian. It got only two comments. June of 2005 brought me my first Atlantic named storm to di...
The day Katrina was named, August 24, 2005, I was in New York City for meetings with the Associated Press, who had just signed up to use Weather Underground as the weather provider for their 5000 newspapers. I had a very uneasy feeling about Katrina, even though it was not predicted to hit New Orleans. When one of the AP staff members made the rema...
One of the most stunning and gratifying experiences of my career has been the emergence of the community of weather enthusiasts in the comments section of my blog--and in the comments sections of the other personal and featured blogs WU used to have. The intelligence and value of the comments has been incredible, and I’ve heard from at least ten pe...
After co-founding the company 24 years ago and writing over 3000 blog posts during a 14.5-year writing career, I have reached the end of the wunderground rainbow. This will be my final post as an employee of Weather Underground. I thought my final tropical weather post would be October 25, on Tropical Storm Olga, whose remnants fittingly came up to...
I started a new blog in early October at Scientific American, “Eye of the Storm: the Science Behind Extreme Weather.” I will be averaging 50 posts per year—far fewer than the 200 or so posts per year I’ve been doing for Category 6, but enough to keep my voice out there. The Scientific American website allows one to view 3 articles or blog posts per...
A huge heartfelt thank-you goes to my WU co-founders and co-workers that helped make WU the special place that is was, and to the many fantastic bloggers that have contributed their remarkable insights to WU--particularly Bob Henson, Steve Gregory, Chris Burt, Ricky Rood, Margie Kieper, and Lee Grenci. Another big thank you goes to our volunteer mo...
Sep 21, 2010 · Learn about Jeff Masters, the co-founder of Wunderground.com and a leading voice on climate change science. He shares his passion for weather, his experience flying into hurricanes, and his views on the IPCC report and climate deniers.
Apr 13, 2020 · Jeff Masters is a former NOAA Hurricane Hunter and the co-founder of Weather Underground. He writes about climate change, extreme weather and natural disasters for Scientific American and his blog Category 6.
