Jet Propulsion Laboratory climatologist Bill Patzert is a local expert on weather and the California climate. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Meteorologist Jim Cantore reports for the Weather Channel on Hurricane Irene from New York’s Battery Park on Aug. 28, 2011. (Jonathan Saruk/The Weather Channel via Getty Images)
Over four decades, Oklahoma meteorologist Gary England became one of the most trusted, and beloved, weather men in a region obsessed with weather until he retired in 2013. (Mark Potts / For The Times)