Our President
Allow us to introduce Dr. Joel N. Myers
Founder, President and Chairman of the Board of AccuWeather, Inc.,
the world's leading commercial weather service. Dr. Myers taught meteorology
at The Pennsylvania State University for nineteen years. Penn State has
one of the largest meteorological programs in the world, and at the time
of his departure from teaching, it is estimated that
Dr. Myers had taught basic weather forecasting skills
to 17% of all practicing meteorologists in the United States. During his
academic tenure, Dr. Myers was able to conduct a number of experiments which
have led to techniques and procedures that produce more accurate and reliable
forecasts. Some of the results of those experiments, refined over 38 years
of use at AccuWeather®, form the basis of AccuWeather's proprietary forecasting
techniques.
Dr. Myers' professional work has covered a wide range of activities involving
use of meteorological and climatological data in a variety of applied problems,
including ski area site evaluations, field measurement
programs and analysis of micro- and mesoclimates.
He was heard and seen regularly as a broadcast meteorologist on many radio
and television stations throughout the Northeastern States for more than
18 years.
As a scholar and meteorological expert, he authored more than 75 articles
and papers on a wide range of subjects. He has appeared on the ABC Nightly
News, To Tell the Truth, the Larry King Show and has been quoted in Time,
Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Forbes and in more than 200 magazines
and newspapers. The New York Times called Dr. Myers "the most
reliable man in the weather business."
Dr. Myers has presented more than 100 speeches to audiences in radio and television
broadcasting, newspaper publishing, utility and energy interests, voice and
telephone service companies, meterology and others. He has also testified before Congress as an
expert on the weather industry.
Dr. Myers has won numerous awards over the years. Perhaps the most prestigous was his being named as one of the top 320 entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur Magazine's Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs, along with historical figures like Thomas Alva Edison and Henry Ford and contemporaries like Bill Gates and Ted Turner.
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