Mike Bettes
Bettes hosted Abrams & Bettes Beyond the Forecast from 2006 to 2009, and Your Weather Today from 2009 to 2012. When it was relaunched as Morning Rush, he hosted it into 2014. The program was relaunched again in March of that year as America's Morning Headquarters. Bettes also formerly hosted Wake Up With Al, from 2009–2014. Bettes is a field reporter for The Weather Channel and is lead field meteorologist for The Great Tornado Hunt, the annual show that summarizes the nation's tornado seasons.
Bettes accompanied scientists for TWC coverage of VORTEX2. He also has reported live from Hurricane Milton, Hurricane Helene, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Sandy, and other tropical cyclones, as well as the 2011 Joplin tornado, floods and winter storms.
He was caught in the EF3 (Previously EF5) tornado on May 31, 2013 in El Reno, Oklahoma, but survived; where eight people died that day. A year later, he and his crew returned to the Great Plains to forecast and report severe weather as part of the 2014 Tornado Track.
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Chopped
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