In 1972, the American Meteorological Society awarded Bacon-Bercey with its "seal of approval" for excellence in television weathercasting, making her the first woman and first African-American to receive the honor.
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Tea leaves, coffee grounds, molten lead hardened in water, crystal balls, runes, Tarot, flame scrying, palmistry, psychometry, weathercasting ― and to think they hadn't even gone into astrology because that was a whole separate class!
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Accessed November 18, 2007. "After graduating from Xavier High School in Manhattan, Roker studied communications at State University of New York at Oswego, where he got his first shot at weathercasting." He worked on several projects as a member of the school's Cartooning & Illustration Club. He attended the State University of New York at Oswego where he received a B.A. in communications in 1976.
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Storm Field's first foray into weathercasting came as part of WABC's Eyewitness News program. Hired by the station in March 1976, he first appeared on television when covering Hurricane Belle, followed by working when Tex Antoine was ill. Field did the weekend weather broadcasts as well as the 11 pm weather broadcast on weekdays. Field became the permanent forecaster on November 29, 1976 as a replacement for the suspended Antoine, who had been dismissed after an inappropriate comment concerning a rape story five days earlier.
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Miller began his meteorological broadcast career as a weather forecaster at Fox 32 in 1989. As a private pilot, Miller has integrated his expertise in aviation weather and meteorological studies at Mississippi State University and Portland State University. He has obtained the American Meteorology Society's (AMS) Seal of Approval, and the advanced Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM), as well as the National Weather Association (NWA) Seal of Approval for his television and radio forecasts. In addition to weathercasting on television, Miller has been entertaining radio audiences for over 25 years.
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In 2006, he gave up day-to-day weathercasting responsibilities to concentrate on hurricanes and emergency communications issues. Bryan now works as a Hurricane Specialist at The Weather Channel, where he has been since 2010. From 2011 to 2013, he also served as Sr. Executive Director of Weather Content and Presentation at The Weather Channel, where he led the winter storm naming initiative in 2012.Chicago Tribune Retrieved on 2018-05-09. As of February 2018, Norcross’s primary role has been as Hurricane Specialist back at WPLG- TV, the ABC affiliate in Miami, where he began his Miami broadcasting tenure in 1983.
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Roker worked as a weather anchor for CBS affiliate WHEN-TV (now WTVH) in Syracuse, New York from 1974 until 1976, while he was enrolled at SUNY Oswego. During his time in Oswego, he also DJ'd at the campus radio station, WNYO. Following the completion of his studies, Roker moved to Washington, D.C. and took a weathercasting position at independent station WTTG, then owned by Metromedia, remaining there for much of the next two years. Roker's career with NBC began in 1978 when he was hired at WKYC in Cleveland, then an NBC owned-and-operated station.
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In the early days before satellite pictures, he created and copyrighted the space-view maps to portray weather systems across the country, and began the practice of predicting rainfall probability. In 1969, Winterling was appointed to the Board of Radio and Television Weathercasting and redesigned the AMS Seal of Approval during 1973. He was employed by Jacksonville University as an adjunct professor beginning in 1975, teaching meteorology through 1994. To account for the combination of summer heat and humidity, he created the "humiture" calculation in 1978, which the National Weather Service adopted as heat index the following year.
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Glickman has been honored with several awards over the course of his career. He was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) in 1995, and received the Society's "Special Award" for his work as Managing Editor of the Glossary of Meteorology, second edition, in 2000.Glickman, Todd S. , Glossary of Meteorology (Second Edition), American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, 2000 He was awarded the AMS's Seal of Approval for Radio Weathercasting in 1979, and its new Certified Broadcast Meteorologist designation in 2005. He has served on and chaired a number of AMS Committees, including the Board of Broadcast Meteorology, Board of Aviation Meteorology, Board of Continuing Education, and Board of Private Sector Meteorology.
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