Jeff Masters, Ph.D., worked as a hurricane scientist with the NOAA Hurricane Hunters from 1986-1990. After a near-fatal flight into category 5 Hurricane Hugo, he left the Hurricane Hunters to pursue a safer passion – earning a 1997 Ph.D. in air pollution meteorology from the University of Michigan.
In 1995, he co-founded theย Weather Underground, and served as its chief meteorologist and on its Board of Directors until it was sold to the Weather Company in 2012.
Between 2005-2019, hisย Category 6 blogย was one of the Internet’s most popular and widely quoted sources of extreme weather and climate change information.
Media inquiries: Sendย an emailย to Jeff (members of the media only, please)
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When Will Climate Change Turn Life in the U.S. Upside Down?
Intensifying extreme weather events and an insurance crisis are likely to cause significant economic and political disruption in the U.S. sometime in the next 15 years.
