Joe is a native Louisianan and was born raised here and partly raised in NY State
during his early childhood, and has been a resident of Baton Rouge most of
his life.
He is a survivor of a direct hit by an F-3 Tornado in 1971 that hit St.
Thomas Moore school in Baton Rouge and has been a
self student of Meteorology ever since.
Joe worked as a Professional Weather Consultant in the private sector in the
capacity as an on location Meteorologist for the movie industry and is
also an Advanced SkyWarn Trained Storm Spotter.
Joe's life long passions are Aviation & Meteorology, Photography and
Stargate &Star Trek TV shows.
Joe became partially disabled in 2001 and fully disabled in 2016, and in 2005 brought his skills and
passion for weather to social media starting on My Space and then Facebook
and Twitter.
Among the several major movies
Joe has worked on as their on location Weather
Observer-Meteorologist. Namely The Magnificent Seven, Baywatch, The
Domestics and iHeart radio
Summerfest 2017 He also does remote weather monitoring on occasion for the
entertainment/film industry when the need arises. Joe is also listed on
iMDB.
Joe is also a U.S. Military Veteran and former Sheriff's Deputy.
Andy Thibodeaux is one of our contributing Staff editors & hails from
Acadian and resides in Church Point, La. with his wife and children. Andy
has had a life long interest in Meteorology and attended ULM with studies in
Atmospheric Science and is also a Certified NWS Advanced Skywarn Storm
Spotter.
Andy runs his own social media weather page which can be found here at
Cajun Weather Spotters.
Jon Raines is our resident Storm Chaser for Southwest Louisiana and
Contributing editor for the Southwest Louisiana Weather page here.
Jon works full time as an Air Traffic Controller and in his spare time when
not chasing storms, he's doing an array of things including photography and
flying when able.
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