Smith, Mike
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Mike Smith
Mike Smith is one of the world's leading experts in the application of weather science. Meteorologist, entrepreneur, and inventor (recipient of eighteen U.S. and foreign patents), Mike works with some of North America's most important companies to save lives and property and creates technology to warn the general public of dangerous weather. He has been credited with saving countless lives and more than $100,000,000 in property.
Mike’s “day job” is CEO of WeatherData Services, Inc., an AccuWeather company. Mike founded WeatherData in 1981 and sold its assets to AccuWeather in 2006. He stayed on after the sale. Prior to founding WeatherData, Smith was a television meteorologist in St. Louis, Oklahoma City, and Wichita.
Mike is a Certified Consulting Meteorologist and a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. He is the recipient of its prestigious Award for Outstanding Contributions to Applied Meteorology and, twice, its Award for Outstanding Service to Meteorology by a Corporation. No other individual has been so honored.
Warnings is Mike's first book. He tells, from a firsthand perspective, the story of the creation of America’s unique storm warning system that saves so many lives.
From the heart of tornado alley, Mike Smith takes us into the eye of America's most devastating storms and behind the scenes of some of the world's most renowned scientific institutions to uncover the relationship between mankind and the weather. The struggle to understand nature's fury provides fascinating insights into the forces that shape our world and the turbulent politics that often influence our scientific establishment.
For decades, the author, a pioneering meteorologist, has dedicated himself to saving lives by combining science, experience, and instinct. This is much more than an academic exercise. Time and again, the author--like others in his field--has relied on his own judgment and experience to make the right call when the stakes were highest and peoples' lives were on the line.
Tracing the never-before-told story of the Herculean effort to create the national weather warning system, the author draws fascinating biographical sketches of the scientific visionaries behind the breakthroughs, such as Dr. Theodore Fujita, creator of the Fujita Scale for tornado measurement.
With its gripping narrative accounts of major natural disasters, Warnings is far from the average science book. It's a human story--both a heart-pounding read and an insightful sketch of those heroes who save thousands of lives every year.
For decades, the author, a pioneering meteorologist, has dedicated himself to saving lives by combining science, experience, and instinct. This is much more than an academic exercise. Time and again, the author--like others in his field--has relied on his own judgment and experience to make the right call when the stakes were highest and peoples' lives were on the line.
Tracing the never-before-told story of the Herculean effort to create the national weather warning system, the author draws fascinating biographical sketches of the scientific visionaries behind the breakthroughs, such as Dr. Theodore Fujita, creator of the Fujita Scale for tornado measurement.
With its gripping narrative accounts of major natural disasters, Warnings is far from the average science book. It's a human story--both a heart-pounding read and an insightful sketch of those heroes who save thousands of lives every year.