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Mike Bettes
Bettes in 2013
Born
1972 (age 51–52)
Tallmadge, Ohio, U.S.
Alma mater
Ohio State University
Occupation
Meteorologist
Years active
1988–present
Employer
The Weather Channel
Spouse
Allison Chinchar
(m. 2012)
Awards
Emmy Award
Michael Bettes (born 1972) is an American television meteorologist and storm chaser who works for The Weather Channel in Atlanta, Georgia. He was a co-host of AMHQ: America's Morning Headquarters.[1] He hosts Weather Underground TV. Bettes has been an on-camera meteorologist for TWC since 2003, and is also an occasional fill-in weather anchor on The Today Show.
Bettes hosted Abrams & Bettes Beyond the Forecast from 2006 to 2009, and Your Weather Today from 2009 to 2012. When it was relaunched as Morning Rush, he hosted it into 2014. The program was relaunched again in March of that year as America's Morning Headquarters. Bettes also formerly hosted Wake Up With Al, from (2009–2014). Bettes is a field reporter for The Weather Channel and is lead field meteorologist for The Great Tornado Hunt, the annual show that summarizes the nation's tornado seasons.[1]
Bettes accompanied scientists for TWC coverage of VORTEX2. He also has reported live from Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Sandy, and other tropical cyclones, as well as floods and winter storms.[1]
He was caught in the EF3 (Previously EF5) tornado on May 31, 2013 in El Reno, Oklahoma, but survived; where eight people died that day. A year later, he and his crew returned to the Great Plains to forecast and report severe weather as part of the 2014 Tornado Track.
Underground TV. Bettes has been an on-camera meteorologist for TWC since 2003, and is also an occasional fill-in weather anchor on The Today Show. Bettes hosted...
from his cellular phone before it struck him. Other chasers, including MikeBettes of The Weather Channel and Reed Timmer, were either injured or had their...
vehicles. During the chase, Reed and his team found the wrecked SUV of MikeBettes and his team from The Weather Channel's Great Tornado Hunt after it had...
meteorologist as co-host of Abrams and Bettes: Beyond the Forecast and then went on to Weather Center, also with co-host MikeBettes. Beginning on July 20, 2009...
with Stephanie Abrams, Al Roker and MikeBettes (2012–2014), Morning Rush from 7 to 10am with Abrams and Bettes (2010–2014), and America's Morning Headquarters...
including The Weather Channel's MikeBettes, were also caught in the same sub-vortex but escaped with only minor injuries. Bettes and the Tornado Hunt crew...
the entire duration of the project, Bettes reported live in the field during Weather Center with Abrams & Bettes each evening, except for instances in...
Foundation. May 5, 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-11. Bettes, Mike (May 14, 2009). "VORTEX2: Close but no cigar". MikeBettes On-Camera Meteorologist. The Weather Channel...
dog named Gizmo who often accompanies him on chases. Weather portal MikeBettes Mark Robinson (meteorologist) "Relationships between Monthly Agroclimate...
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& Bettes: Beyond the Forecast, Forecast Earth and Weekend Outlook), while dramatically revamping Weather Center and reassigning meteorologists Mike Bettes...
Stephanie Abrams and MikeBettes and, for most intents and purposes, was an extension of the preceding program, Abrams & Bettes: Beyond the Forecast....
executive officer of the Weather Channel, replacing former AOL executive Mike Kelly, who had been appointed as the company's CEO in the summer of 2009...
Morris Delancey (Mike Faist) Apr 6, 2012". www.youtube.com. Archived from the original on June 13, 2023. Retrieved February 19, 2022. "Mike Faist – Broadway...
Tim Samaras and his two partners and injuring The Weather Channel's MikeBettes' Tornado Hunt team. June and July were both below average for tornadoes...
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Burton, golfer Jacob Sager Weinstein, author and humorist January 9 MikeBettes, meteorologist and storm chaser Mat Hoffman, BMX rider Jay Powell, baseball...
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Cantore also covering the event for the channel); by this point, she and MikeBettes resumed co-hosting the entire three-hour broadcast of Your Weather Today...
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