Meet our wonderful team from across Canada and the United States working to help keep you safe!
Adam Skinner
Founder and Director
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Adam Clarke
Co-founder of Ontario Tornado Watch
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Alannah Campbell
Meteorologist, Content Creator, Administration
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Alannah joined our team at Instant Weather in August 2017 as a Forecaster. Although she is based in Ontario, she creates custom forecasts for Newfoundland and Alberta. On top of forecasting, Alannah has an active role in Content Creation and Business Operations.
Her love for weather started at a young age when she began researching severe weather in order to overcome her childhood fear of thunderstorms. That fear quickly turned into fascination for all types of meteorological and geological natural disasters.
Alannah received her Bachelor's Degree in Earth & Atmospheric Science from the University of Guelph and also received a diploma for Broadcast and Operational Meteorology from Mississippi State University.
Brennen Perry
Lead Forecaster, Content Creator, Administration
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Jake Cuthbert
Digital Media Lead
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In his free time, Jake enjoys watching cat videos and producing television with his local YourTV (a division of Cogeco) station where he also volunteers.
Jason Brand
Meteorologist, Forecaster, Content Creator, Storm Chaser
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Jason also has a degree in Paramedic & Fire Sciences, is a retired Firefighter, Paramedic, and Emergency Management Director/Specialist with over 10,000+ hours of education and field experience. He has been trained extensively from the National Weather Service, Conferences, and private companies like Baron Weather Technologies where he was able to learn from experts like Dr. Les Lemon (lemon technique) and top Meteorologist and NASA scientists in the country. He also created city and county wide weather warning disaster readiness plans that went on to win awards for the first ‘StormReady’ city in Mississippi. He then went on to get another degree; a B.S. in Geosciences from MSU focusing on their operational Meteorology degree.
His areas of expertise include radar analysis, severe storm forecasting, tropical weather, blizzards, and large-scale systems/disasters. Currently, he is focusing his efforts on helping the team produce forecasts, severe weather content, storm analysis, scientific support, and driving the content for all 50 state weather pages in the US.
Jennifer Fergusson
Video Production
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Ryan Paris
Meteorologist, Forecaster, Content Creator, Storm Chaser
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Teresa Kroeker
Content Creator, Administration
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Seasonal/Spotter Team Members
Andrew Macklin
Storm Chaser
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Andrew Ratcliff
Moderator
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Chantale Ramage
Moderator
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Corinne Rikkelman
Content Creator
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Dave Patrick
Storm Chaser
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De Billows
Moderator
Devon Copp
Forecaster
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Devon joined Instant Weather in January 2018 as a forecaster and storm chaser. Based out of Barrie, he was one of the first to report the Lucan tornado in July 2017 and has been fascinated by weather since an early age.
One of his fondest memories is sitting in his garage with his father, watching the skies as thunderstorms went by. Devon has competed a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics and Atmospheric Science along with a Diploma in Meteorology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS and has since joined the PASPC (Prairie & Arctic Storm Prediction Centre) office of Environment Canada as an active warning meteorologist.
Dominic Goulet
Storm Chaser
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Harry Schut
Forecaster, Storm Chaser
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Jong Su Kim
Forecaster
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Lesley Taylor
Moderator
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Over the years, Lesley has participated in a local TV station’s GroundForce team and has recently become Skywarn Certified, all so she can update people when severe weather is on its way…and is very excited to do so now with IWC followers!
Her hobbies include photography, storm chasing and off-roading in her trusty Jeep, working through MetED courses to learn even more about amazing world of meteorology, and of course spending time with her very understanding husband (especially during storm season) and three crazy cats.
Mike Schut
Forecaster
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Growing up and living in Southern Ontario until the mid 90’s, his love for thunderstorms grew greater.
In the late 90’s, Mike moved to Atlantic Canada. After experiencing a few winters in Moncton, New Brunswick, he moved with his family to start a job at a transportation company in Prince Edward Island.
With thunderstorms not as prominent in Atlantic Canada, his love turned toward Nor Easter’s and extreme winter weather systems.
As a forecaster for the three Atlantic Canada pages, he has loved the ability to watch the weather and provide information to those who like the pages.