Meteored - International Team

Trained economist, amateur computer scientist and passionate meteorologist. Javier co-founded Meteored back in 2000 and is responsible for coordinating the various teams and resources of Meteored with the goal of improving meteorological services.

A Bachelor of Geological Sciences from the University of Granada with a passion for meteorology since childhood. Co-founder of Meteored in 2000, Juan Jose has turned enthusiasm into a job. His directing responsibilities are diverse and he is always looking for ways to improve Meteored as a whole.

Working with Meteored since 2008, Adrian is a computer specialist with a passion for software engineering. He is part of the backbone of the company, playing an important role in operational strategy for the business and its products, always promoting development from a shared team vision.

Passionate about computer science since a young age, Jose Antonio is always looking to the future. Since joining us in 2010 he has become an integral part of the company, always focused on optimization of resources and researching new technologies that allow the expansion of the business to its limits and beyond.

Marcos joined Meteored in 2015, he coordinates the meteorology division keeping it in tune with rest of the company, developing and improving new products based on data from weather models, satellites and radars. A graduate of the University of Murcia with a degree in physics, Marcos is passionate about all things meteorology and computer science.

Juan is a computer engineer who spent years working on air quality modeling projects for the Region of Murcia in collaboration with the UMU physics department. After gradually moving towards working with meteorological models, Juan joined us in early 2018 and helps head up the Meteorology Department.

Raquel received her Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Murcia and M.S. degree in Meteorology from the University of Granada. Her field of expertise is focused on atmospheric modelling. She has been a researcher at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Washington and the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the U.S. In 2019 she joined Meteored, being co-funded by the Torres Quevedo grant with the ESTUMETEO project; which aims to validate and improve the weather forecast while focusing on user needs.

PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Murcia, with a master’s degree in Meteorology and Geophysics from the University of Granada, having graduated in Environmental Sciences. Her speciality is meteorological and air quality models. She has worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford (UK) and at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL; USA). Laura joined the Meteorology department of Meteored in 2020.

Lydia was born in Castellón with familial links to Murcia, after moving there a coincidence led to her joining the company in 2009. Together with Meteored she has learned and grown into something she hadn’t previously been passionate about. She loves to spend time with family, travel and whenever possible escape to hear the sound of the sea.

A graduate of Université Claude Bernard with a degree in computer science, Isabel is from Lyon and French by birth. She joined Meteored in 2013 and is a talented specialist in Web Development with the versatility to also act as the Meteored country manger as well as the country manager for the Tameteo.com portal.

A computer engineer and master of SEO, Cati joined Meteored in 2014 as a web developer. She has a range of responsabilities including advertising, optimization of search engine positioning and coordinating the web team. A Non conformist with a keen eye for detail, Cati brings to the team her experience, reliability and a feminine touch.

With a degree in computer engineering and a passion for the world of software engineering, Juan Carlos is a valued part of our web development and services team. He contributes his wealth of knowledge and experience in web technology and the processes involved in the development and engineering of Meteored products.

Computer engineer by both profession and vocation. Juan loves learning about new ideas emerging in the world of software development. After a few years as a consultant, Juan landed at Meteored in 2017 and has developed a great understanding of meteorological concepts. He is currently responsible for supporting the news sections of the various web portals.

A recent computer engineering graduate, Juan Diego joined Meteored with a desire to advance his understanding of his field. He began in a supporting role in the geolocation department and has been hooked on meteorology ever since. His main motivation is to make sure nobody in his city is left without access to the most accurate weather data out there.

Born in vera, Almeria, Diego always knew his future lay in the world of information technology. After graduating from the University of Granada Diego enrolled in the Meteored project to continue his training as a web developer. The rest is still to be written...

Computer engineer. He has been connected to the web world since the beginning of the internet. In 2020, he joined Meteored as a Web Development Specialist to continue to innovate across many projects. Personally, he is passionate about animals, the sea, sports and family.

Fernando, Technical Engineer in Computer Systems from the University of Almería, joined the Meteored team in 2015. He is currently part of the web development department where he is responsible for finding solutions to make it easier for users to interact with our services.

Computer Engineer from the University of Granada. She joined the Meteored team in 2020 where she decided to start her professional career in an environment where she prioritises innovation; in order to continue training and deal with the latest technologies.

Part of the meteored family since 2013, a technical engineer in computer science from the University of Granada. Involved with green android since 2011, Pedro is an incessant defender of the Clean Code and efficient algorithms, always trying to be the latest and best in interface design and engaged in improving user accessability and experience.

A computer science engineer with Meteored since 2013, José Miguel is in charge of our iOS apps. For him it all started with a Spectrum computer as a child which led to programming becoming a hobby. He got his first at iMAC in college and has been an Apple fan ever since. He brings to the team his experience in iOS development and Swift platforms but also a great sense of humour making him a lot of fun to work with.

Alejandro graduated in computer engineering with a major in software engineering from the University of Almeria. Specializing in the development of applications for mobile devices Alejandro has been working in the Meteored application department since 2016, first as an android and currently as an iOS developer.

Graduated in Telecommunications Engineering from the Miguel Hernández University of Elche. Passionate about software development and new technologies, she joined Meteored’s multidisciplinary team in 2013. She currently works as a developer in the Android team, bringing her knowledge of software engineering, imagination and experience to add new functionalities and improve existing ones.

José Antonio Maldonado studied Physics at the University of Seville and has more than 50 years of professional experience in the field of meteorology. After teaching as a high school teacher, in 1970 he joined, by competitive examination, the Faculty of Meteorology, now called the Higher Body of State Meteorologists. Shortly afterwards, he joined the National Institute of Meteorology (currently AEMET) and in 1986, he joined Televisión Española as Head of the Meteorology Area, a position he held for more than 20 years. There, he was in charge of the direction of the program “El Tiempo“, participating in the different news programs and taking care of the training of the journalists that joined the department. At the same time, he was a contributor to the newspaper ABC for 22 years and to ‘Cinco Días’ for a decade. Honorary President of the Spanish Meteorological Association (AME), Maldonado is also a member of the Governing Council of AEMET and Gold Medal of the Province of Seville 2010. In addition, he has received many other awards during his career, such as the “Scientific Award“ at the International Meteorological Festival of Issy les Moulineaux, the “Golden TP” and the award “Best European Weather Presenter 2006”, from the EMS (European Meteorological Society). In recent years, José Antonio's working life has been on the internet, joining our project in June 2019 as Meteored's Meteorology Director.

Graduated in Journalism and Audiovisual Communication by the CEU Cardenal Herrera University in 2009, Juanjo Villena has extensive training in meteorology, through courses such as ’A changing climate’ or ’Climate change and sustainable management of territorial resources’, both from the Climatology Laboratory of the University of Alicante. Passionate about meteorology since he was a child, Juanjo is a specialist in meteorological and environmental communication, and has extensive experience in the media, where he has been reporting since 2007. He started in the Vocento group through Las Provincias TV, as editor and graphic designer of the program ‘Meteo‘. He has worked as a predictor in several local radio stations and as a weather presenter in the Valencian delegation of TVE. He held the position of Administrator and Director of Meteovisión, until he joined our team in 2017, as Editor-in-Chief of Meteored. He currently collaborates with Onda Cero and the newspaper Levante, among others. In addition, he is the organiser and speaker of reference weather and climate dissemination events, such as those held in Beniarrés since 2013. At the same time, he is a storm chaser and photographer (City of Manises Award 2010).

Graduated in Physics from the University of Seville in 1977. Paco Martín joined the former INM, currently AEMET, where he has worked for more than 36 years, belonging to the bodies of Observer, Assistant Meteorologist and Superior Body of State Meteorologists. Francisco has held positions of responsibility within AEMET in the areas of Forecasting. In addition, he has been a professor in training courses for new personnel and courses for updating predictors. He has been invited by international organisations (WMO, EUMETSAT, some National Meteorological Services of Ibero-American countries, etc.) as an expert in forecasting, nowcasting and early warning systems. Also, he has participated in numerous lectures and informative events in Universities, Masters and Amateur Meetings in Spain and has conducted and coordinated studies on severe weather phenomena within AEMET. For more than a decade, within Meteored, he has been dedicated to the popularisation of meteorology and its related sciences with the management of the RAM where he is Coordinator.

After studying a degree in Physical Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid, José Miguel Viñas oriented his professional work towards communication and dissemination of meteorology in different media. He worked as a weather man at Antena 3 Television, between 1999 and 2003, and later, he began to collaborate in the program Radio Nacional de España “No es un día cualquiera”, with Pepa Fernández, for 15 seasons (2004-2019). His section “El tiempo del tiempo” was awarded a Mention of Honour in the 2006 edition of the “Science in Action” contest. He has also directed and presented the radio program “Los cuatro elementos”, in CMMedia during the years 2017-2018. At present, he combines his work as meteorologist for Meteored with collaborations in RNE (“De Pe a Pa”), in La 2 of TVE (“La aventura del saber” and “Órbita Laika”) and other media. He is one of the founders of ACOMET and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the AECC (Spanish Association of Scientific Communication). He also participated in the Spanish Antarctic Campaign between 2017-2018. Since 2013 he has been a consultant to the World Meteorological Organization. He regularly gives conferences and has written 7 books, the last of which is “Conocer la Meteorología. Illustrated dictionary of weather and climate” (Alianza Editorial, 2019). On his personal web page (divulgameteo.es) you can find more meteorological information.

Graduated in Geography and Land Management in 2016 and Master in Planning and Management of Natural Risks in 2017, both from the University of Alicante. Samuel has extensive training in aspects related to Geography and risks of atmospheric origin, with participation in various conferences and events organised by research bodies or public entities. His love of meteorology is linked to the extreme weather events typical of the Mediterranean. Currently, Samuel has specialised in the field of Climatology and in the dissemination of information on the effects of climate change in the Mediterranean basin. He has an extensive career as a researcher and disseminator in the Laboratory of Climatology of the UA, attached to the Interuniversity Institute of Geography. He has been a trainer in the Cabinet of Natural History in Madrid to prepare the AEMET's meteorological observer competitions. He also collaborates with various local and regional media, and joined Meteored in 2019 as an audiovisual editor and publisher. He has participated in various conferences on meteorology and climatology as a speaker, and has published articles in prestigious national and international specialised magazines, focusing on aspects related to Geography, atmospheric risks and climate change in the Mediterranean. He is a member of the Association of Spanish Geographers and the Southeast Meteorological Association.

Graduated in Journalism from the Universidad Europea de Madrid, he has a Master's Degree in Social Communication of Scientific Research at the Universidad Internacional de Valencia, a Master's Degree in Climate Change and Sustainable Development at the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociológicas and an Executive Master's Degree in Administration and Management of Airports and Airlines at Vértice Business School. He is currently a PhD student in Information and Communication at the University of Barcelona. Since 2001 he has been working as a meteorologist in the media. He has given weather reports in several Catalan and Andorran radio stations such as Radio Estudi Esplugues, Ràdio Despí, Ràdio Berga, Ràdio Principat and Ràdio Seu. On television, he made his debut in 2005 on Canal Méteo. Since 2007 it has been on La Sexta, with a short three-year break on 13TV in 2014. In 2013 he directed a project for the public television of Saudi Arabia. He has also written articles in magazines such as Altaïr and Skipper. He is a member of the Association of Meteorological Communicators (ACOMET) and the Catalan Association of Meteorological Observers of Catalonia (ACOM).

Fernando Llorente Martinez studied Air Physics at the Faculty of CC Physics of the Complutense University of Madrid and passed the State Observer Corps examination in 1989, when meteorology in Spain was in charge of the National Institute of Meteorology. He was stationed at the Meteorological Observatory of the Villafría air base in Burgos between 1990 and 1992, and published numerous articles on Meteorology and Astronomy in the Diario 16, which was published in this Castilian capital, as well as a weekly prediction column. In his next assignment, between 1992 and 1994, at the egovia Provincial Observatory, he also published several articles on Astronomy and a weekly series on Introduction to Meteorology, all in the newspaper El Adelantado de Segovia, in addition to giving lectures at institutes in the province and cultural associations. He was in charge of the beginning of the Meteorology section in the local television of Segovia. Since his arrival at the INM headquarters in Madrid, now AEMET, in 1994 he has published a series of introductory articles to Meteorology in the RAM magazine and has participated for two years in the Meteorology courses given by COFIS, the Official College of Physicists. He currently collaborates weekly as an editor at tiempo.com and helps with the production of videos that can be seen in the RAM magazine. He is a great fan of meteorological and astronomical photography and some of his images have appeared in several books on meteorology published by José Miguel Viñas. He is also a member of the Spanish Meteorological Association, AME, in whose publications several of his meteorological photographs appear.

Graduated in Geography and Land Management from the University of Alicante in 2016. Subsequently, as a result of her passion for the climate and everything related to nature, Natacha Payá studied a master's degree in Climatology and the Media at the University of Barcelona, which she completed in 2018. Collaborated since September 2018 in our team, Meteored. Natacha considers that Tiempo.com is giving her the opportunity to continue training in this sector and to be able to transmit to the readers what she likes so much about the Weather. Currently, in addition to the above, she also contributes weekly to the newspaper Levante-EMV, a column dedicated to current issues related to meteorology and nature. Personally, she considers herself a very active person with good communication skills. Nowadays, she is very eager to get more training and become a good climatologist.

Former student of the physics degree of the University of Valladolid and current candidate for the State Meteorology Observer Corps. He is a great fan of meteorology, very interested in singular phenomena and deep convection and especially dedicated to its study and dissemination. He is a collaborating teacher at the Centro Huerta del Rey in Valladolid, specialised in students with intellectual giftedness and special educational needs and where he mainly develops learning and popularisation sessions of physics, astronomy and meteorology. He actively participates in the forums of “tiempo.com” (Meteored), especially in the project “Cases of Presumed Supercells in Spain”. He also forms part of the team of moderators of the forum and since 2014, he has been one of the administrators. He collaborates in the AME (Spanish Meteorological Association) photographic competition as a member of the jury and was a predictor on the old website of tiemposevero.es (Spain Severe Weather) dedicated to storm chasers and weather fans. Member of the Syrma Astronomical Society and President from 2013 to 2019. He has been a speaker giving talks and workshops on meteorology and climatology and has coordinated three Carlos Sánchez Magro Lecture Series given at the University of Valladolid by Spanish researchers and astrophysicists. He is also a lecturer at the Physics League, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the dissemination of physics, and a member of the American Society of Optics.

With a degree in Geography from the University of the Basque Country and a Master's degree in Applied Climatology from the University of Barcelona, Maider has been working in weather and climate communication on radio and television for more than ten years. She has worked for Canal Extremadura, has also worked in the Spanish TV program “Aquí la Tierra” as a weather presenter and as a weather content editor. Since 2017, she has been collaborating with Meteored as an editor of informative articles on meteorological matters. She is also a member of ACOMET, the Spanish Association of Meteorological Communicators. There, and in collaboration with the Spanish Association of Climatology, she has participated in the elaboration of the ”Climate vocabulary for communicators and general dissemination”. She has also worked at the University of Barcelona's Health, Safety and Environment Office and at the Group for the Analysis of Adverse Weather Situations (GAMA), and has collaborated with several production companies in the preparation of weather forecasts for TV and film recordings. Recently she has been trained in the Expert Degree in Communication and Social Networking Cabinets at the Complutense University of Madrid to complete her profile as a communicator.

A graduate in Geography from the University of Valencia since 2009, Pedro has extensive higher education in meteorology, climatology and the environment. As an academic training he has two official masters: ‘Techniques for the management of the Environment and Territory’ from the UV and ‘Applied Climatology and Media’ from the University of Barcelona. He got the Postgraduate Diploma ’Protection, Conservation and Management of Natural Protected Spaces’ from ADEIT Foundation and also the certificate of ’Strategies to win. Meteorology in the world tour’ from the UB. SHis professional experience began in 2009 at the Centre for Environmental Studies of the Mediterranean and later, he collaborated with Radio Barcelona-Cadena SER and Badalona Television. Afterwards, he worked as a Rural Guard with the Ayora City Council, carrying out his own project of meteorological and climatological monitoring of the forest masses of that municipality, relating all of the information to fire prevention and the evaluation of the natural areas most affected by the scarcity of rainfall. He has also participated in the development and drafting of several reports for the Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Development of the Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha, as ‘Study on the observed effects and perception of climate change in rural Castilla-La Mancha’ and ’Guide to the protected natural areas of Castilla-La Mancha’. Currently, Pedro Gavidia manages his own Facebook page (MeteoAyora) while collaborating for different media in the meteorological field, such as EsRadio Onda Requena, Radio Ayora or Infojúcar. Since 2017, he has been a part of Meteored's team of collaborators.

Graduated in Marine Sciences from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 2016. Her desire to understand the way in which the oceans interact with the atmosphere prompted her to study a Master's degree in Meteorology, completed in 2017 at the University of Barcelona. An oceanographer and meteorologist by vocation, her great interest in helping to understand and prevent the changes that occur in the atmosphere due to anthropogenic activities led her to collaborate with the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research – CSIC, where she studied the different meteorological variables that influence the behavior of tropospheric ozone. In addition, Yurima has a year of experience in Radio Televisión Canaria as a meteorologist and weather presenter for the news, making her own weather predictions and editing weather content. Her passion for transmitting her knowledge about meteorology and climatology has led to her to being a collaborator with Meteored since 2021 as an editor of informative articles on meteorological matters.

Graduated in Geography from the University of Barcelona en 2009, en Information Science Studies from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in 2020, and postgraduate in TV presenters at Blanquerna-Ramón Llull, Roger Solé has been working for more than 12 years in the field of meteorological communication and environmental dissemination in the media. RTVA - Andorran public radio and television - was his school, where he began to make weather forecasts together with other local channels in Catalonia, such as Olot TV. Between 2014 and 2017, isobars and anticyclones opened the way for him to develop other challenges within the media sector: he has been editor and manager of social networks en el programa ‘MeteoMauri’ of Catalunya Ràdio, producer-scriptwriter in ‘La Primera Pedra’, a morning infotainment program of Rac1 and speaker in ‘InfoTrànsit’ of RACC, carrying out the chronicles of road information in Catalonia. During that period, he was director and presenter of the program ‘Planeta Méteo’ on Ràdio 4-RNE Cataluña. He is currently a journalist in the communication department of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB), a meteorologist in Betevé and a collaborator in the program ‘De Boca a Orella’ on Ràdio 4-RTVE with the ‘atmosfèrics’ section. In addition, he is a member of the Col·legi de Geògrafs de Catalunya, the Catalan delegation of the College of Geographers of Spain.

Ursula Pamela García is an environmental scientist with a degree in Atmospheric Sciences from the Universidad Veracruzana. For several years she worked as a Forecaster Meteorologist at the National Meteorological Service of Mexico. Her professional experience includes participation within NOAA, being part of the Tropical Desk and in courses of Tropical Meteorology offered by the National Hurricane Center, both in the United States. She also has international stays in countries such as China, Costa Rica, Peru, Puerto Rico and Guatemala. Her knowledge of radars, remote sensing, weather observation stations, numerical modelling and media outreach courses was certified by the Spanish State Agency for Meteorology (AEMET) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). In addition, she had the opportunity to be the first female Operational Meteorologist in Mexico, who along with the crew of the hurricane hunter plane went into and flew over Hurricane Simon on 4 October, 2014.

Private meteorologist since 2008. Juan Antonio Palma specialised in operational meteorology, design of cyber infrastructures for meteorological monitoring and analysis, as well as applications of the ECMWF model to meteorology, certified by the Spanish Agency of Meteorology (AEMET) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). He worked as an operational meteorologist at the National Meteorological Service of Mexico based at the Regional Hydrometeorological Center in Merida, Yucatan. He served as chief of the meteorology area in the newspaper "Por Esto!" and the television station "Tele Yucatán". He currently collaborates with digital media "Estamosaqui.mx". Founder of the project Yucatan Weather on Facebook and Twitter.

He studied a degree in Atmospheric Sciences at the Universidad Veracruzana, located in Xalapa, Veracruz. Professionally, José Martín Cortés has been a forecasting meteorologist since 2014, working at the Center for Meteorological Studies and Forecasts of the Veracruz Civil Protection Secretariat. Since he was a child, he has been a big fan of everything related to the weather, always wanting to be a meteorologist. Fortunately, thanks to the family support and the drive he never lost, he made it. He has collaborated with the company SkyAlert Mexico making forecasts and monitoring weather systems, as well as giving interviews to several national and international media about events such as hurricanes, dust from the Sahara and cold waves, also attending live radio and television programs. In 2019 and 2020 he was invited to the Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM) to give talks on winter storms in the United States and Mexico.

Omar Payán is an engineer in ecology from the Faculty of Zootechnics and Ecology of the Autonomous University of Chihuahua, having graduated in 2000. He holds a Master's degree in Administration from the Faculty of Accounting and Administration, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua. He has almost 9 years of experience (2009 - 2017) as Head of the Weather Forecast Center of CONAGUA Local Direction Chihuahua. During that time he was responsible for the elaboration of regional forecasts, as well as dissemination to decision makers and media in the region, in addition to the responsibility of managing the network of meteorological stations of the National Water Commission. He has taken training courses in Logan, Utah and Victoria in Canada focused on the operation and maintenance of weather stations. He currently has a space on the nightly radio program Imagen Chihuahua, where he shares the weather forecast and general news regarding weather events.

Martha Llanos has a degree in Atmospheric Sciences from the Universidad Veracruzana, and currently prepares weather forecasts for Mexico City, where she also contributed to the creation and operation of the city's Severe Weather Early Warning System. She is co-founder of Juventud Mexicana frente al Cambio Climático and CliMet. As a Climate Leader at Climate Reality and representative of 500 Women Scientists CDMX chapter, she is also a member of REDESClim and the American Meteorological Society. In recent years, she has organised and participated in national and international congresses, forums, workshops and courses focused on atmospheric sciences and climate change, where she has dedicated herself to disseminating the importance of meteorological culture and early warning systems as a means of preserving the environment and reducing disaster risk. She works with Agenda 2030 and the Sendai Disaster Framework. In February 2018, she was a delegate to the United Nations youth assembly.

Marc Hay graduated from the Paris-Sorbonne University – Paris IV with a Master of Applied Foreign Languages and he holds a Master's degree in Journalism (Superior School of Journalism). He has been working at BFMTV since 2014 as a journalist in charge of environmental issues. He also presents various weather reports of the chain from Monday to Friday from noon. Before working for BFMTV, Marc Hay had the opportunity to present “Météo à la carte” on France 3 for two seasons, replacing Laurent Romejko. He started his career with the Chaîne Météo where he presented the evening edition. Editor-in-Chief for tameteo.com since 2018, Marc Hay has been enthusiastic about weather since childhood.

Enthusiastic about the weather and the media for over 15 years, Guillaume Woznica has been an editor for tameteo since 2018. After gaining his first experience in local radio in 2007, he became a weather consultant for the radio stations of the Ouest-France group, including the station Hit West based in Nantes, in 2010. At the same time, he created an association of weather enthusiasts and a forecast website for western France. In September 2012, he joined the Hit West Morning Team as a weather columnist every day of the week. It is also from 2012 that Guillaume presents the weather forecast on television on the local channel TLC. He prepares and presents the weather forecast every evening. In February 2014, he arrived at La Chaîne Météo to co-present the morning show from Monday to Friday and regional weather reports. It also takes charge of the development and animation of social networks. At the start of the 2017 school year, he joined the LCI channel (TF1 group) to present the morning weather reports every day from 6 a.m. Interested in severe weather phenomena and long-term forecasting, Guillaume regularly analyses the evolution of the climate in the regional press.

Clément Meirone has been enthusiastic about weather and climate since childhood. At the age of 15, he launched a specialized website only for the department of Yonne, where he is from. Météo89 had more than 35,000 social media subscribers and earned him the title of "youngster of the year" in the region in 2016. At the same time, he continued his studies in Geography and Environment, with a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and a Master II from the University of Strasbourg and the National School of Water and Environmental Engineering in 2019. After various internships in the voluntary sector and in the private sector, he is now a design engineer in the air quality sector, and plays a fundamental role for the adaptation to climate change. Since 2019, he has been writing articles for tameteo.com and covering weather news in France and around the world.

Virginie Hilssone graduated from a Master's in Media Communication. She has been a journalist and presenter specialising in weather since 2014. After making her debut on La Chaine Météo (canalsat), she presented weather reports on RTBF (in Belgium) and CNews. She now works regularly as part of the editorial staff for France Télévisions and BFMTV but also at the radio Mouv's microphone (Radio France group). She is passionate about biometeorology (the science that studies the interactions between atmospheric phenomena and living beings) and has written a book on this subject entitled “Mieux vivre avec le temps” (Living better with weather) published by Flammarion editions in February 2020. She also keeps a blog where she shares her daily discoveries and tips to live better according to the current weather and season.

Originally from French Polynesia, Hinatea Chatal holds a Bachelor's degree in Information-Communication and a Master's degree in Human Resources in Papeete. She began her career by hosting her own radio show. Attracted by television, she co-presents the Franco-Tahitian talk show: Fare Ma'ohi on Polynesia La1ère (FranceTV Group). Driven by new challenges, she decided to pursue her professional career in Paris. Enthusastic about travel and environment, she got into the weather business at La Chaine Météo and quickly became a wild card at CNews. At the same time, she hosts a radio show at TropiquesFM where she offers cooking, travel and weather chronicles and makes listeners aware of the problems of the Overseas departments and territories. Hinatea is also a member of the Forum Météo Climat alongside the most emblematic weather presenters and participates each year in the Forum in Paris. Since 2020, she has written various articles for tameteo.

Johanna Castelle, weather / environment journalist-presenter, is enthusiastic about weather and environmental issues. She holds a Master's degree in environmental and energy economics from Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and a degree in audiovisual journalism from the Audiovisual Academy of Paris. Johanna Castelle presents weather reports on radio and television as well as columns relating to environmental news on Cnews and RMC Découverte. Abroad, she presented the weather forecast on Swiss television station Meteonews and on the radio on Spoonradio.

Graduated in 2012 in Geology with applications in Engineering, Territory and Geological Risks at the University La Sapienza of Rome, Lorenzo Pasqualini started collaborating in 2009 for newspapers and magazines related to geology, environment, meteorology and current affairs. In 2012, he attended the Laura Conti environmental journalism course in Savona, and has been a member of the Lazio Region Journalists' College since 2013. Enthusiastic about meteorology and journalism from an early age, Lorenzo has collaborated for several years with Meteoweb and with the well-known local news publication from Rome, “la Quarta”. He lived for several years in Spain, in Oviedo and Madrid, gaining a deep knowledge of the country. From Madrid, he collaborated with important Italian daily newspapers, including “il manifesto”, with in-depth articles, reports and news from Spain. In 2012, he founded the news page for Italy and Spain “El Itagnol”, a reference for the Italian community in the Spanish territory. From 2017, he joined the Meteored team as editor-in-chief of the Italian website “Ilmeteo.net”. For his work as an Italian journalist in Spain, he received the award of the Committee for Italians Abroad (Comites Madrid) at the Consulate of Italy in the "journalism" section. Currently, he continues to collaborate with Italian and Spanish newspapers from Rome and Madrid.

“Meteorologist technician”, according to WMO standards, Dekra certified. In 2011, Daniele Ingemi started studying meteorology, attending a specialization course in synoptic meteorology and medium and short-term forecasts, studying conceptual models for the Euro-Mediterranean area, at the Italian Air Force. Since 2010 he has started collaborating with many local newspapers, radios and television media, as a forecaster and populariser. From 2013 to today he has held the position of meteorologist at the online newspaper Tempostretto. Since 2015 he has held the private activity of meteorological consultant, making local forecasts for some small municipalities in Sicily and private companies, operating in the sector of energy production, transport and agricultural activities, which require detailed and accurate forecasts for the single territorial area. Since 2016 he has been registered with the Order of Journalists of Sicily, as a journalist. Between 2016 and 2018 he collaborated, as forecaster and meteorological analyst, for a Hungarian newspaper and a Russian scientific journal, writing articles that dealt with synoptic and study of extreme weather phenomena, such as floods, wind storms, heat waves and droughts. In April 2019 he took the Dekra certification, as a "meteorologist technician" according to WMO standards. Then he has enrolled in the AMPRO, the Professional Weather Association, where he holds the position of "meteorologist technician". He mainly deals with dynamic meteorology, synoptic and study of extreme meteorological phenomena, and marine weather forecasts for the lower Tyrrhenian, the Strait of Sicily and the Ionian Sea.

Luca Lombroso is AMPRO Meteorologist, environmental communicator, lecturer and editor. He is a meteorologist consultant for various organizations, including Bologna Airport. He is a meteorologist technician at the Geophysical Observatory of DIEF UNIMORE. He is president of the Emilia Romagna Meteo Association. His weather experience particularly matured in the 1990s through courses abroad and his participation as a forecaster in the 1999 MAP Project. He is an expert in forecasting extreme weather phenomena and snowfalls. Television character and meteorologist, currently he collaborates on TV with Licia Colò on TV 2000 and with Agorà on Rai Tre. At Radio Due he often speaks to Caterpillar AM and to Miracolo italiano programs. Author of various books, the latest ”Ciao Fossili cambiamenti climatici resilienza e futuro post carbon” (Hello Fossils, climate change, resilience and future post carbon), Artestampa Editions. He has received awards including ”Bilancia d'oro” in 2006, and in 2013 ”Un Bosco per Kyoto”, ”penna d'autore” and the literary counter-prize Carver 2013 and 2016. He has participated in various "climate summits" of the United Nations including COP 21 in which the Paris Agreement was approved. His dream for the future is to live and telework with zero emissions in the forests of Costa Rica, where he manages an experimental weather station at the Karen Mogensen Reserve.

Marco Virgilio is a journalist and communications operator registered in the national register. Scientific communicator, especially in the fields of Meteorology and Climatology. Freelance weather forecaster since 2001, both for the mass media and for public and private entities. Founder in 2002 of Meteopoint, a private company of weather services. Since 2003 he has edited and conducted weather strips and broadcasts on Science and Environment at the regional broadcaster Telefriuli. Expert in modeling analysis and evaluation of long-term scenarios. Forecaster in open air events, he supports sailors, mountaineers and sportsmen all over the world. He has collaborated with local and national weeklies. In 2008 he published ”Guida pratica al meteo per l'escursionista” (Practical Guide to the weather for hikers) (CO.EL. editions). In 2009 he received the first prize from the European Meteorological Society (EMS) in the Outreach & Communication Award section. Lecturer in Meteorology courses for training in the naturalist, mountaineer and hiker fields. Producer of nature documentaries for RAI, for private broadcasters and other entities. Associate and executive member of the Meteorological Union of Friuli Venezia Giulia (UMFVG Onlus) since 2002.

Enthusiastic about meteorology from an early age, after graduating in Atmospheric Physics and Meteorology at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences of Bologna, Luca Ciceroni works as a collaborator at the CNR (National Research Council) in the laboratories of the ISAC (Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences). In 2005 he was hired by Sky Italia under the direction of Emilio Carelli as a reviewer meteorologist, presenter and weather-reporter for the SkyMeteo24 channel. In a few months Luca gains space in the channel and is entrusted with external services also for SkyTG24. After the positive experience as a weather-reporter in 2009, he will be entrusted with other assignments, always related to significant meteorological events, including the historic snowfall of 2012 in Rome. Since 2007 he has collaborated daily with RadioStudioDelta, such as a meteorologist. Since 2011 he has been a member of the Order of Journalists of Emilia Romagna as a journalist. In June 2018 he left Sky to pursue a career as a ‘freelancer‘. In September 2018 he approaches mobile journalism (MOJO) which, thanks to new technologies and closely linked to social platforms, allows to reach citizens in a transparent and rapid way. The goal is to be in the right place at the right time and that's just what a ‘meteo reporter’ needs. In September 2019, following the evaluation of the AMPRO Executive, he joined the first and only association of professional meteorologists in Italy. Browsing through the meteorologist's social profiles, it is easy to realise his passion for travel, nature and also for electronics, the latter linked above all to meteorological instruments.

Alfredo Graça graduated in Geography from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto in 2017. He currently attends the 2nd year of the Master's Degree in Risks, Cities and Spatial Planning at the same institution. He is doing an internship at the Geophysical Institute of the University of Porto and has completed a mobility period under the Erasmus program at the Geography Department at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona between September 2018 and February 2019. He took summer courses related to Geography at the Geography and Spatial Planning Institute at the University of Lisbon (2013) and at the University of Oxford (Oxford Summer Courses, 2015). In 2018, he presented a project at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto about the historic parish of São Julião (Portalegre), within the framework of IJUP (Research Meeting Young of the University of Porto). In the same year, in September, he was one of the authors of the poster on sea level variation published in Research Gate, which was exposed at a conference on climate change at the Faculty of Lettres of the University of Porto. He has been editor-in-chief of the Meteored news section, in the tempo.pt team, since January 2018. Since he was a little boy, he has a passion for nature, in particular for everything that involves Geography, weather and climate. From the beach and the oceans, to the sky and the mountains, from the smell of plants and trees to the contemplation of the amazing beauty of thunderstorms and volcanoes.

Joana Campos graduated in Geography from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto, in 2017. She is currently attending the last year of the Master's in Risks, Cities and Spatial Planning, at the same institution. Writing for a news site is her first experience in the field. She participated in a poster on sea level variation published in Research Gate, which was exhibited at a conference on climate change, at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, in September 2018. From January 2019 to April of the same year, she was in Bari, in southeastern Italy, where she did an internship at Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geoambientali, where she also collected data for her Master's dissertation. Since she was very young she has a special love for the climate and everything that it involves, which was the main reason for choosing her study area.

Teresa Abrantes has a degree in Physics from the Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon with 35 years of service at the Portuguese Institute of Sea and Atmosphere formerly the Institute of Meteorology. She withdrew from the institute in 2014. Since 2014, she has been teaching Meteorology at the Higher Institute of Education and Science in the Civil Protection Engineering Course and working as a meteorology consultant on World Bank projects. She participated in a project in Pakistan and collaborates in a project in Mozambique and Angola. For 19 years she was part of the team of meteorologists who presented the weather report on two Portuguese television channels. Throughout her professional career at the institute she worked mainly in the field of meteorological forecasting and vigilance. She held different management positions, she was a member of several national and international working groups and was a national representative in different international groups and committees, including the World Meteorological Organization. She is a member of the Portuguese Meteorological and Geophysical Association. She participated and presented works in several national and international conferences, related to her specialisations in weather forecasting, remote sensing and meteorological support to fight forest fires.

Graduated in Geography from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto in 2012, João Tomás acquired love for climatology during his degree, and especially during his Master's in Risks, Cities and Spatial Planning, which ended in 2016. He has specialised in Risk Prevention and Spatial Planning, having participated in several colloquia on these topics. Currently, João Tomás is studying a Master's degree in Geography teaching at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning / Institute of Education of the University of Lisbon, and he teaches in the third cycle and in secondary school. As a teacher, his role is to help students understand climatology, meteorology, and all associated phenomena. He has been collaborating as an editor at Meteored since June 2019.

Mónica Barbosa graduated with a degree in Geography from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto, and a postgraduate degree in Natural Resource Management from the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, she is attending the Master in Risks, Cities and Spatial Planning, at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto. With a particular interest in understanding the different manifestations of weather conditions, she has a special passion for studying the dynamics that influence the behavior of climatology, the environment and inherently, the life of human being on this beautiful blue planet. She integrated this project in a perspective of continuous learning, hoping to contribute positively to its continued success. Professionally, she collaborates with the Ministry of National Defense, mainly in the area of Logistics - Purchasing.

Paula Gonçalves graduated in Geography (2014) and Master in Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Planning (2016) by the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto, where she found her fascination with Cartography, Applied Climatology, Public Health and Natural Risks. Since the end of the degree, she has been involved in research projects related to climatology, namely participating in an International Citizen Sensing project - urban climate resilience through participatory risk management systems, between 2018 and 2020, she participated and presented works in several national and international conferences, more related to her specialisation, she had the privilege, in 2017, of teaching applied Climatology, as a guest assistant, at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto and is also a founding member of the Portuguese Association for Geographic Information Systems. Of all the published scientific works, it is worth highlighting her participation as co-author in the books O(s) Climas de Gaia and Plano Metropolitano de Adaptação às Alterações Climáticas: Metroclima. Porto. She is currently a Geographic technician at the Forestry Technical Office in the Municipality of Vale de Cambra.

With a degree in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires, Christian Garavaglia knew how to turn his passion into his profession from the age of 12. He developed his career during these years in areas that were suitable for channelling his clear passion for weather forecasting, early warning and the dissemination of meteorological information to society. He began this path as a student and was part of the Forecasting Group of the Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences (UBA). Then, he joined the National Meteorological Service where he has been working as a forecaster since 2010. In 2013, he began to complement his daily work as a meteorologist by bringing information to the public through various media. On TV he was a weather presenter for three years on the 360tv news and co-hosted a magazine on DirecTV Sports dedicated to the world of sport and snow. He also had several participations as guest meteorologist in news and magazines in the main TV channels (Canal 13, Telefe, Telenueve, C5N, Fox Sports, among others). He was part of the multidisciplinary team Agrolink, dedicated to the information of the agricultural world, being a radio columnist in Radio10 and writing notes for the web portal. He also worked in news portals and radio stations in the province of Tucumán. He collaborated many times with the main written media and news portals in the country (Clarín and Infobae among others). Since 2018 he joined the Meteored team to develop and carry out the project in Argentina as Chief Editor. Now, he coordinates a work team made up of 5 professionals who keep one of the most important weather portals in the country updated on a daily basis.

Marina Fernandez has a solid background in natural sciences, which allows her to understand the physical processes that occur in the atmosphere, and the complexity of the interactions with the rest of the environment. She studied a degree in Atmospheric Sciences at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences (DCAO-FCEN) of the University of Buenos Aires. She complemented her studies with the Environmental Management course in the postgraduate area of the Master's Degree in Environmental Engineering, at the National Technological University, and with several short courses such as Specialisation in Spectroscopic Techniques for the Measurement of Atmospheric Pollutants, at CITEDEF. She actively collaborated with projects and publications in different research areas, under the direction of outstanding professionals at CONICET. She actively participated in the area of scientific dissemination within and outside her faculty. She was an educational guide, in events organised by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation (MINCyT) and the Max Planck Society of Germany. She was part of the Argentine National Meteorological Service until 2011, for the Environmental Monitoring Program of the Uruguay River. She currently works as a meteorologist (weather forecaster and columnist on natural phenomena) for Todo Noticias (TN), one of the most prominent news channels in Argentina.

Enzo Campetella is a meteorologist who graduated from the University of Buenos Aires in 1993. In addition to his training in meteorology, he is a surface meteorological observer. For just over 3 years he developed skills as a meteorological forecaster for the Argentinean Meteorological Service. Then his activity focused on providing meteorological advice to companies in the private area. Parallel to meteorology, he has developed skills in journalism, being a correspondent for different media in the National Congress of Argentina between 1995 and 2007. The experience gained helped him to perfect his own communication strategy, participating for several seasons in radio programs to help agricultural producers in times of late frosts. The Radiocentígrado cycle on LU18 Radio El Valle was one of the most emblematic in the upper valley of the Río Negro in Patagonia. As part of his outreach work, he has developed meteorology courses for amateurs, and is currently leading a project to take this idea to a larger scale with his Internet presence through the We are the Climate site.

Cindy Fernández studied a Bachelor's Degree in Atmospheric Sciences, with an orientation in Agrometeorology, at the University of Buenos Aires/a>. Since the first years of her meteorology career, she volunteered in different scientific dissemination activities, inside and outside the university. Since 2015, she has been part of the National Meteorological Service's Press and Citizen Communication team, where she was trained as a, donde se formó como weather communicator. In addition to being the spokesperson of the organisation, she is also part of the editorial committee of Meteoros Magazine and the social networks team. For more than 5 years she has been featured in different media and participated as a guest meteorologist in different news programs. For the third season, she participates as a columnist in the popular science program La Liga de la Ciencia, on public TV, where she deals with issues related to weather phenomena and climate change. At the beginning of 2019, she joined the team of professionals at Meteored Argentina, where she works as a news editor.

Leonardo De Benedictis holds a Bachelor's Degree in Atmospheric Sciences with a focus on Synoptic Meteorology and graduated from the University of Buenos Aires in 2006. He also took courses such as "Seminar on Aeronautical Operational Meteorology" and "Course on Analysis and Interpretation of Satellite Images" both given at the National Meteorological Service. In addition, he completed the "IV Ibero-American Course on Satellite Meteorology" given by the training center of the Spanish Cooperation - EUMETSAT in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. Currently, he specialises in weather broadcasting in media such as Radio Continental since 2007 and Canal Rural from 2013 to date, as well as other radio media, such as Radio 10, Los 40 principales, Radio Pop, Rock & Pop among others, and television media, such as 360 Tv. Together with Doctors from the University of Buenos Aires he presented scientific papers como “Relationship Between the Occurrence of South American Low Level Jet and Daily Precipitation and Temperature Extreme Events” en el 1° International CLIVAR Science Conference en Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He also participated in the 9th and 10th CONGREMET, presenting papers on synoptic meteorology in the "XIV Jornadas de Jovens Pesquisadores da AUGM" of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil and at the "4th International Verification Methods Workshop", Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) in Helsinki, Finland. In October 2009, he was awarded the Diploma of Honor for "Meritorious Performance" by the National Meteorological Service.

Meteorologist who graduated from the Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences of the University of São Paulo. Later joined the group of meteorologists from SOMAR Meteorologia, working with weather and climate forecasting with an emphasis on the energy and agricultural sectors, as well as media diffusion. Passionate about meteorology and interactions with the biosphere, Tiago further specialised in the study of climate focused on agriculture, gaining a Master's in Meteorology at the Federal University of Santa Maria in Rio Grande do Sul. At the same institution, Tiago contributed to the Climate Research Group, participating and elaborating climate discussions for Brazil. In 2018, he joined our team as Chief Editor of Meteored for tempo.com website and continued working with weather and climate forecasting as Meteorologist and Consultant for Oráculo Meteorology.

Meteorologist graduated from the Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of São Paulo, where she also acquired her Master of Science degree, in 2018, and currently holds her doctorate in Meteorology. During her years of experience in Meteorology, Paola Bueno acquired extensive knowledge in computational aspects, data analysis and in the elaboration of weather and climate forecasts, collaborating with the work developed by the IAG/USP Climate Studies Group. A professional always engaged and determined in the development of new research and meteorological products that directly contribute to the advancement of science in Brazil, environmental preservation and to society in general. “Since I was a child I have always been an attentive observer of sky, always curious. Today my profession allows me to understand every movement of clouds and still allows me to pass on all this knowledge, which makes this profession even more rewarding!"

Holding a Bachelor's degree in Meteorology from the Federal University of Alagoas in 2014 and Master's degree from the National Institute for Space Research in 2016. Currently, Davi Moura is a PhD student at same institute with a sandwich period at the Max Planck-Institute Für Meteorologie, in Germany. His study focuses on the development of a parameterisation of lightning strikes with effects on the microphysics of storm clouds and on the chemistry of atmosphere. Davi Moura is a creator and administrator of Tempo e Clima Brasil which aims to disseminate relevant scientific content to students, teachers and those interested in geosciences. He appreciates meteorology for its scientific challenges and the multidisciplinary aspects involved. Our planet's weather and climate helped to write the history of life on earth. We, humans, increasingly depend on information about atmospheric conditions for transport, cultivation, wars, logistics, health, among others. Studying this thin gaseous layer that keeps us alive is extremely fascinating.

Bachelor and Master in oceanography from the Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo and PhD in Meteorology from the Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of São Paulo. Carolina Barnez has experience with environmental education for children and young people in various subjects related to biology, sustainability and earth sciences. A specialist in ocean-atmosphere interactions, mainly in the impact of this interaction on the Earth's climate. She is currently a researcher at the Centre for Marine Technology and Ocean Engineering of the Instituto Superior Tecnico in Lisboa, Portugal. It works mainly with extratropical cyclones, their impacts on oceans, the climate system and the effects of climate change on these systems. She is a great enthusiast of science and technology. She believes that scientific dissemination is essential for appreciation of science in society; it is essential to have a better informed society with freedom of choice and opinion.

Meteorologist graduated from the Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences (IAG) of the University of São Paulo (USP), worked as meteorologist at the Fundação de Estudos e Pesquisas Aquáticas (FUNDESPA) and as researcher at the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP). Matheus Manente was also one of the founding partners of Oráculo Meteorologia, where he developed services, provided meteorological consultancy for large companies and developed an agrometeorological app with short, medium and long-term forecasts focused on rural producers. In addition to meteorology, Matheus also has a career in music and, in 2020, he joined the Meteored team as editor for the website tempo.com.

Graduated in mechatronic engineering at Universidade Paulista and working in the industry, he came across a dream of the past of wanting to study Meteorology. It was, then, in 2015 that Bruno César joined in the Universidade Estadual Paulista, where he graduated as meteorologist in 2018. During his undergraduate years, he could understand the complexity of atmospheric phenomena and had several experiences with synoptic meteorology, dynamics and climatology. He developed a great passion for art in predicting weather and climate. Currently, he is part of the Graduate Program in Environment and Water Resources at the Federal University of Itajubá and maintains a blog entitled Tempo Online on Facebook.

Amanda Souza is a Brazilian professional who has the position of editor at Meteored Brazil. She is a Meteorologist who graduated in 2017 at the Federal University of Itajubá (UNIFEI) She brings to the team her experience with short, medium and long term weather forecasts. In academic life, she sought to improve her knowledge in Synoptic Meteorology, working with the Center for Weather Forecast and Climate Studies (CPTEC/INPE), having being awarded at the National Congress of Meteorology with the work “Characterisation of Frontal Systems in Tropical and Subtropical Latitudes of South America”. In her career, she went beyond synoptics and sought greater knowledge in agriculture, specifically, how the weather and climate could positively or negatively affect rural producers and different cultures in the country. In addition to being an analytical meteorologist she became a coordinator of the forecast team at Somar Meteorologia, where Amanda proved to be a great communicator. There, she was able to explore the media through important national broadcasts, including weather forecasts on television and radio daily.

As a meteorologist graduated from the Federal University of Itajubá (UNIFEI), Amanda Balbino worked in the area of agrometeorology relating the effects of weather conditions on the cycle of the main agricultural crops in the country. During her experience as a meteorologist in agriculture, she assisted in the planning of agricultural activities, through the analysis of historical meteorological data, in addition to the analysis of local weather forecast and climate trends for various regions. Currently, she has a program on the community radio station for Maria da Fé - MG, where she talks about the weather forecast for the municipality and also about weather conditions forecast for the entire southern region of the state of Minas Gerais. What motivates her to go further is to contribute in some way to society through meteorology - taking information that is relevant to people's daily lives to help them in the transformation of their habits.

Leon Beurer is an enthusiastic math freak, which then encouraged him to study Mathematics at the University of Cologne. The course made him a lot of friends. He has always had a lot of interest in physics, too, and he is particularly fond of the physics of the atmosphere. He has also repeatedly attended lectures in the area of meteorology and trained in the field of meteorology. He has a lot of fun when observing and examining weather conditions. Statistical evaluations of meteorological time series are also part of his hobby, and in doing, so he primarily studies the phenomenon of climate change. After his bachelor's degree, he is now busy with his master's degree and is also writing exciting scientific texts for the daswetter.com portal. On a stay abroad in South Africa he was able to gain further life experience. His home is Rostock.

Johannes Habermehl has always been fascinated by the weather, having aroused his interest early in life. He was born in Lingen and has lived in beautiful Mainz since childhood. There, he observes the current weather situation day after day and has gained important meteorological knowledge through self-study. He has also repeatedly attended physical events and meetings at Johannes Gutenberg University. As a child, he began to photograph exciting weather phenomena and now continues to observe the weather with all its phenomena and facets. He is also interested in astronomy and often observes the starry night sky. He has often made exciting discoveries in the night sky. Since 2018, he has been regularly writing weather texts for daswetter.com.

The weather has beenAnneliese's secret passion since birth. Her grandparents were interested in regularly monitoring weather conditions. Even as a little girl, she always watched the sky and the weather with great interest. After studying Geography, Anneliese Lunkenheimer taught for years at a primary school near Mainz. She never lost sight of the weather, which was always an important topic during her lessons. Anneliese is particularly interested in exciting weather phenomena such as thunderstorms or storms. She has acquired a lot of knowledge, especially in the field of tornadoes, and is always up to date. Since 2019 Anneliese has also been writing regular weather articles for daswetter.com, which gives her great pleasure. She likes to share her knowledge with other people, so the teaching profession comes into its own again.

Thomas Dengfurt grew up near Kiel and successfully completed his studies in northern Germany. Among other things, he was very interested in Geography, Agricultural Sciences and Nutrition, as these subjects occupied a large part of his studies. In addition, the weather is his great passion. Thomas is particularly enthusiastic about exciting weather phenomena such as thunderstorms and tornadoes. He also regularly observes the behaviour of hurricanes and studies their development. Thomas has been part of the daswetter.com team since 2019. It is one of his passions to bring difficult weather conditions and weather phenomena closer to a broad audience in a simple way. Thomas loves to travel the world, preferably with a backpack, and enjoys getting to know new countries, people and cultures. He's a real globe-trotter and always has the weather in mind.

Tim Weingärtner is the crazy storm chaser in the daswetter.com team. He throws himself into every thunderstorm. Several times, he has even been able to experience a tornado up close. He's been crazy about the weather since childhood, however, he spent his studies in Business Administration. His parents thought he should study something decent, for them meteorology was not an option and Tim took the advice dutifully. Since the end of his studies in Berlin he has been observing the weather every free hour and minute as a hobby. In fact, Tim spends his vacation chasing storms with his camera. Tim provides readers with exciting weather forecasts and has the current weather firmly in view at all times, so he never misses any dangerous weather warnings.

Niklas Weise has been enthusiastic about weather events and data analysis since childhood. Since then, he has been particularly interested in the forecasting and development of extreme weather events and climate change. So the step to studying meteorology at the University of Hanover was not far, which he has now successfully completed with a Master of Science. During his studies, various trips to Jordan, India and New Zealand, for example, enabled him to get to know different climate zones and to experience climate change up close. As a meteorologist, Niklas is currently responsible for the weather forecast at Radio Regenbogen and is pursuing other projects of his own with Meteo-Weise. He writes exciting scientific texts and weather forecasts for the daswetter.com portal. Niklas lives in Mons-en-Baroeul, a small town near Lille in northern France.

Clarissa Wright graduated with her first degree in BSc Geology & Petroleum at University of Aberdeen in 2013, and later completed MSc Applied & Petroleum Micropalaeontology at University of Birmingham. After completing her Masters degree, she entered the scientific publishing industry in London as an Assistant Editor at Springer Nature, where she was later promoted to Senior Assistant Editor. While supporting various academic journals and writing for the BMC Blog there, she achieved a blog writing award. After moving on from Springer Nature, she went on to pursue science journalism as a freelance science journalist, disseminating scientific research for public audiences in multiple industries. Having participated in expeditions collaborating with Oman Botanic Garden, including Oman Botanic Expedition 2019, she has managed blogs and media for the projects, having published content about geological findings in Oman for UKGE’s Deposits Magazine. Currently, she is Chief Editor for YourWeather and also collaborates with other media such as NatureVolve. Having always had a passion for investigating the natural world, she likes to explore nature through both science and art, while creating drawings and paintings in her spare time.

Rory Morrow is passionate about science and the natural world, someone who has a great interest in environmental factors such as climate change, especially in regards to how they influence biodiversity. Having graduated with a BSc in Zoology at the University of Glasgow in 2019, he developed a strong love for writing, initially dreaming of becoming a sci-fi novelist. He later fell into the world of freelance writing, where he could combine his passions for wildlife and the environment. Rory began by collaborating with a variety of online media, including writing tourist guides for AnyTravelTips, as well as nature articles and species lists for Great British Coast. Later, he also contributed environmental content to online publications such as Phytoon. In his spare time, Rory loves spending time outdoors, whether it be wildlife watching or hiking through the Scottish mountains. He is also an avid baker, and still lends his hand to a spot of sci-fi writing every now and again.

Phil Rosenberg graduated from the University of Sheffield with a Masters of Physics degree in Physics and Astronomy in 2003, then went on to develop his interest in the planets. He completed a PhD at the Planetary and Space Science Research Institute, Open University; where he examined data from the Huygens Probe which landed on Saturn's moon Titan. After investigating the atmosphere of Titan, Phil brought his interests closer to home, working for the Met Office on their atmospheric research aircraft. He worked extensively with instrumentation which made in-situ measurements of aerosols and cloud microphysical properties. He was on the first scientific flight from the UK through the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic plume, which closed airspace in 2010. He travelled across the world working on scientific projects making measurements on the aircraft. Phil has since moved to University of Leeds and works as part of the National Centre for Atmospheric Science. He has continued to travel for fieldwork and still works closely with the UK's atmospheric research aircraft. He has been involved with measuring dust storms in the Sahara, rain storms in the UK and cloud cover in the tropics which has impacts on climate change.

Catherine Early is a freelance journalist and editor who has specialised in environmental issues for more than 15 years. She writes about topics including climate change, energy, waste, biodiversity, air pollution, the built environment, business strategy, sustainable investment, and policy and regulation. She has held permanent roles at the Environmentalist (now known as Transform), the ENDS Report, Planning magazine and Windpower Monthly. Her freelance clients include the Ecologist, Resurgence, China Dialogue, the Economist World Ocean Initiative, Utility Week and the Guardian. She was a finalist in the Guardian’s International Development Journalism competition 2009, and was part of the team that won PPA Business Magazine of the Year 2011 for Windpower Monthly. She also won an outstanding content award at Haymarket Media Group’s employee awards for data-led stories in Planning magazine. She holds a 2:1 honours degree in English language and literature from the University of Birmingham, and completed a postgraduate course in journalism with PMA Training.

Rich studied Meteorology and Climate Science at the University of Leeds, accompanied with a year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US. After university, Rich decided to take a leap of faith out to New Delhi, India, where he began his forecasting career at Climate Connect – an energy analytics company. He helped design and implement artificial intelligence driven models for the forecasting of electricity demand and renewable energy generation, whilst witnessing first-hand the rapid growth of solar energy across Asia. Tiring of Delhi’s suffocating air pollution, Rich then moved back to the UK and joined the weather forecasting bench at MetDesk. Work here involved forecasting for the roads, railways, utilities and events industries, on a shift basis to cover the 24/7. He is now a forecaster at Meteogroup in London. Rich has previously written weather-related content for several national newspapers, including the Guardian’s Weatherwatch column. He particularly enjoys the fast-paced, competitive nature of forecasting, and he is especially enthusiastic about the impact of weather on sports events and performances. Rich is a keen runner and an avid football fan.

Helena Mottram graduated with her first degree in BSc Meteorology and Climate at the University of Reading in 2017. She was then trained and worked as a Meteorologist for MeteoGroup UK where she wrote forecasts for media, energy and road clients most notably briefing, writing scripts and updating the website for BBC Weather. Helena then went on to complete her Masters degree in TV Broadcast Journalism from City, University of London where Helena worked as a Researcher on ITV’s Good Morning Britain and as Assistant Producer on BBC 6 and 10 o’clock news. Helena now works as a freelance journalist which allows her to combine her love of weather, journalism and social media. She has written numerous articles for Glamour magazine and regularly works with MeteoGroup DTN to write weather forecasts and articles for regional and national newspapers. Helena also works as a digital producer for ITV Daytime where she runs and edits content for the social media accounts of Good Morning Britain, Lorraine, This Morning and Loose Women. In her spare time Helena runs weather_with_helena, a weather and fashion blog where she posts daily weather forecasts and works as a content creator for brands on social media.

Susie Wright was awarded her first degree in physics by the University of Cambridge in 2015 before moving to the University of Oxford to study for a PhD in atmospheric physics in collaboration with the UK Met Office. During her PhD she worked on modelling aspects of the Earth’s climate using part of the Met Office’s forecasting model with a focus on understanding how heat is transported through the atmosphere from the equator to the poles. She has presented her work at a number of national and international conferences, including the European Geosciences Union General Assembly, and published in a peer reviewed journal. Alongside her research she has been involved with numerous public engagement projects including Stargazing Oxford which was highly commended in the innovation category of the South East Physics public engagement awards. Susie has a keen interest in public perception of science and the intersection between science and the media. She spends her spare time running and is an avid football fan.

Kerry is a freelance writer and editor, specialising in science and health-related topics. As a freelance writer, her work has appeared in many scientific and medical magazines and websites, including the AZO portfolio, Forward, Patient and NS Media titles. Kerry’s articles cover a wide range of topics including astronomy, nanotechnology, physics, medical devices, pharmaceuticals and mental health, but she has a particular interest in environmental science, Cleantech and climate change. Kerry was previously Web Editor for Laboratory News, where she wrote news, comment and features covering a number of scientific topics. She was also responsible for commissioning and editing features, proofreading the magazine, and maintaining the title’s online presence. Kerry is NCTJ trained, and has a degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Bath where she studied a range of topics, including chemistry, biology, and environmental sciences.