WeatherBrains 231: Grilling Ginger

This week's guest WeatherBrain is Bill Proenza, the Regional Director of the National Weather Service (NWS) Southern Region, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. A meteorology graduate of Florida State University, Proenza began his career at the National Hurricane Center in Miami and as a flight meteorologist on "hurricane hunter" aircraft (1963-1967). During his lengthy career with the National Weather Service, he received numerous performance commendations and awards, including recognition from the NWS Employees Organization as the NWS Manager of the Year for his collaborative leadership (1998). Our guest panelist is Ginger Zee of WMAQ-TV in Chicago. She was always fascinated with math and science as a child, and went on to study Meteorology at Valparaiso University. Ginger's B.S. in Meteorology (along with minors in Math and Spanish in tow, plus internships and experience in storm chasing), helped her move from WLAV (Grand Rapids, MI) to WEYI (Flint, MI) to WOOD TV (Grand Rapids, MI) and now NBC5 in Chicago. We should also mention that Ginger interned with James Spann at ABC 33/40 in Birmingham while still in college.