While at Valpo, he was heavily involved in the campus television station & participated in a Convective Field Study - traveling more than 3,000 miles - chasing storms across the Plains. Originally from the Chicago area, Johnson earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Meteorology & a Minor in Digital Media from Valparaiso University in 2017. Brendan reported as two large barges drifted down the river towards the Webbers Falls Lock & Dam - a situation which brought back horrid memories of the 2002 I-40 bridge disaster. Brendan forecasted the torrential downpours and was live in Fort Smith as the city faced several bridge closures due to a raging river. Heavy rains in the Spring of 2019 led to catastrophic flooding along the Arkansas River. While at 40/29 in NW Arkansas, he was a part of team coverage of an EF-2 tornado that tore through Mountainburg and reported on the damage in the days following. Thanks to the team coverage that day, Wisconsinites in Grant County got the warning and took shelter in time.īrendan is no stranger to tornadoes and severe weather. At one point, winds exceeded 160 mph and the twister carved a 10+ mile path of destruction South of town. He was on the air during the EF-3 Boscobel tornado that tore through SW Wisconsin in August of 2021. While at NBC15, Brendan was back to forecasting Midwest weather - seeing everything from snowstorms & snow squalls to Summer thunderstorms. You can catch his forecasts weekend mornings on TMJ4 and throughout the week.īefore arriving in Milwaukee, Brendan spent two years at WMTV (NBC15) in Madison, WI and three years at KHBS/KHOG-TV (40/29 News) in Fort Smith-Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Unfortunately, it’s difficult to name a recent situation where political leaders have been proactive about preventing major public health problems.Meteorologist Brendan Johnson joined WTMJ & Storm Team 4 in September 2022. But in actuality the bad health effects of heat waves and other results of climate change can be far-reaching, ranging from more wildfires to more cardiovascular and respiratory problems. For example, calling it “global warming” may have made climate change seem more welcome sort of like a cup of cocoa or a comfy blanket. The lack of names and potentially poor choices of names may have belied the true threats of climate change. This all highlights the need for everyone to take heat waves way more seriously. It’s sort of the same rationale behind why you give names to your children rather than say something like, “Hey, not yet toilet trained, come over here.” Presumably, though, you are not treating your children like a public health disaster. Some other public health threats and disasters such as hurricanes and infectious disease epidemics do already have names that can help people remember them and authorities better deal with them. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Getty Imagesīut having a more official way of categorizing and naming heat waves does make sense. So, don’t expect to see something officially named the Marathon Heat Wave no matter how long it lasts.Ĭases of water sit stacked at a Home Depot during a heat wave in Brooklyn on Jin New. A convention that names heat waves after major oil companies may not fly with political leaders. Category 5 (Catastrophic Heat Wave): This is where “many all-time temperature records are shattered with thousands of deaths reported.”.He has put Heat Wave Chevron in this category. Category 4 (High Level Heat Wave): To reach this level, it would have to be “severe enough to produce over 500 deaths to susceptible people,” in the words of Walton.Many heat records would be either tied or broken.” He put this as the threshold at which a heat wave would earn a fossil fuel corporation name. A city in a CAT 3 heat wave would be under a heat emergency for a few days. Category 3 (Major Level Heat Wave): Walton described this as “severe enough such that a few fatalities are reported.
Temperatures may get close to record levels for a couple of days.” Category 2 (Medium Level Heat Wave): Walton defined this as when areas “have been subjected to temperatures and humidity sufficient to produce NWS heat advisories and warnings for at least three consecutive days.Temperatures don’t necessarily have to get as hot as record levels, but humidity levels must be sufficient to produce a heat index above 95☏.” Heat advisories from the National Weather Service will be in place with perhaps a small area of heat warnings. Category 1 (Low Level Heat Wave): Walton described this as “when temperatures and humidity get hot enough to threaten the health of susceptible people over an area at least as large as a medium size state.
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