Meteorology Matters

By Rob Jones

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Meteorology Matters delivers clear, data-driven insight into weather, hurricanes, and climate science cutting through hype to explain what’s happening and why it matters.

Created by Meteorologist Rob Jones, the podcast explores:

  • Extreme weather and hurricane forecasting
  • Climate trends and real-world impacts
  • Forecast uncertainty and what the data actually shows
  • How weather science affects safety, infrastructure, and daily life

Whether it’s breaking weather risk, long-range outlooks, or deep-dive analysis, Meteorology Matters helps you understand what’s happening and why it matters.


Episode Date
2026 Weather Shock: Super El Niño, Record Heat, and a Planet Running Hot
May 08, 2026
AI Weather Forecasts Are Getting Smarter. So Why Are We Weakening NOAA?
May 05, 2026
AI Just Beat Hurricane Forecasting… Should We Be Worried?
Apr 21, 2026
Will Hurricane Forecasts Get Worse? Inside the NOAA Budget Cuts
Apr 13, 2026
Fired, Sued, and Still Forecasting: The Matt Devitt vs WINK News Battle
Apr 04, 2026
“It Only Takes One”: Why 2026’s Hurricane Season Could Be Worse Than It Looks
Mar 28, 2026
This Should NOT Be Happening in March… 112° Heat + Hawaii Flood Disaster
Mar 21, 2026
Historic March Heat Wave: Spring Surge Threatens 100s of Records Across the East
Mar 03, 2026
Blizzard of 2026 Target Locked: Who Gets Buried or a Bust?
Feb 22, 2026
EPA Repeals the Endangerment Finding: The Climate Domino Just Fell
Feb 13, 2026
Florida’s Coldest Outbreak in 15 Years: Freeze Warnings, Flurries, and What You Must Do Now
Jan 29, 2026
When Florida Freezes: The Cold Snaps That Changed the Sunshine State
Jan 26, 2026
Historic Winter Storm Threatens Two-Thirds of the U.S.: Snow, Ice, Power Outages & Dangerous Col
Jan 23, 2026
Born in the Eye of the Storm: How the University of Miami Became the Hurricanes
Jan 17, 2026
Is the Fog Making People Sick? Science, Weather, and a Viral Winter Myth
Jan 12, 2026
2025 Weather Forecasting: Hotter Earth, Badder Hurricanes, Smarter Forecasts
Dec 31, 2025
Weather Risk in America: Brain Drain, Disaster Failure, and Science Under Strain
Dec 30, 2025
A Life of Hurricane Warnings, A Legacy of Lives Saved: Dr. Neil L. Frank (1931–2025)
Dec 24, 2025
Holiday Forecast: What the Weather Means for You this Christmas to New Year
Dec 24, 2025
Killing America’s Weather IQ!
Dec 21, 2025
Poisoned by Design: Plastics, Politics, and the Fight for a Livable Future
Dec 18, 2025
The 2025 Hurricane Season and the Impact of Hurricane Melissa
Dec 04, 2025
Hurricane Melissa: Last Chance to Prepare
Oct 27, 2025
Jamaica’s Worst Nightmare: Inside Hurricane Melissa’s Catastrophic Assault
Oct 26, 2025
Trump Broke FEMA: The Collapse of America’s Disaster Response
Oct 22, 2025
The Environmental Impact of Artificial Intelligence: Energy, Water, and Sustainability
Oct 21, 2025
Hurricane Season Stalls as Ocean Waters Heat Up
Sep 12, 2025
Hurricanes and Inequality: Racism in the Recovery
Sep 01, 2025
Disaster Capitalism in New Orleans: Whitewashed Urban Transformation after Hurricane Katrina
Aug 30, 2025
Hurricane Preparedness & Forecasting 20 Years After Katrina
Aug 29, 2025
The Enduring Lessons of Hurricane Katrina and the Current State of U.S. Disaster Preparedness
Aug 25, 2025
Alligator Alcatraz (Auschwitz) Concentration Camp Environmental Issues and Everglades Jetport History
Aug 23, 2025
Erin: Big Hurricane, Big Waves, Big Rip Current Risk
Aug 21, 2025
Hurricane Erin & Atlantic Update: Size Matters
Aug 19, 2025
Hurricane Erin Update & Rapid Intensification Explained
Aug 17, 2025
Hurricane Erin Goes Cat-5: Wind Force Explained
Aug 16, 2025
NASA Says Screw YOU Earth… I’m Going to Space
Aug 15, 2025
Need for Air Conditioning Grows in Order to Survive Extreme Heat
Aug 13, 2025
Florida & Louisiana Lead Flesh-eating Bacteria Deaths
Aug 12, 2025
National Weather Service Hiring While Fake Science is Being Pushed
Aug 10, 2025
Hurricane Hype? Season Awakens in the Atlantic
Aug 09, 2025
Thousands of Delayed Hurricane Deaths: Toll far Greater than Official Counts
Aug 08, 2025
First Meteorologist Scheduled to Blast into Space
Aug 02, 2025
Dismantling the EPA, FEMA, and NOAA Hurts the American People
Jul 31, 2025
100° - Florida’s Largest West Coast City Records Hottest Day Ever
Jul 28, 2025
Can Sharks be Used to Forecast Hurricanes?
Jul 25, 2025
NOAA's Atlas 15 Rainfall Prediction Project Halted by Trump
Jul 20, 2025
What’s Up with the Atlantic Cold Blob?
Jul 16, 2025
111 Deaths and 171 Missing: Why Were Flash Flood Warnings Ineffective in Texas?
Jul 09, 2025
Disastrous Texas Flood: Communication vs Weather Forecast
Jul 05, 2025
Hurricane Forecasts Jeopardized by SSMIS Satellite Data Termination
Jun 26, 2025
The Mind of an Autistic Meteorologist
Jun 23, 2025
Evidence Shows Global Warming Signals May Have Been Measured Slightly Earlier than Some Previously Thought
Jun 17, 2025
2024 Presidential Election Numbers Not Adding Up as Legal Challenge Proceeds in Court
Jun 17, 2025
Waste from Miami Nuclear Power Plant Still Leaking into Drinking Water Supply
Jun 15, 2025
Google DeepMind AI Hurricane Forecast Model Could be a Good Thing… If it Works in Realtime
Jun 14, 2025
Another American Weather Website Being Shut Down
Jun 12, 2025
Florida Waters Reach 98°, Dangerous Hurricane Fuel
Jun 01, 2025
Scientists Trying to Save America’s Weather Forecasts with 100 Hour Live Stream Event
May 28, 2025
2025 Hurricane Season Forecast: Above Normal Activity Likely
May 23, 2025
Kentucky Tornado Outbreak Amid Staffing Shortages as Severe Weather Season Continues
May 20, 2025
NOAA & NWS Hiring - Firing Chaos as Hurricane Season Approaches
May 16, 2025
Energy Star & LIHEAP Help Americans, Trump Wants them Eliminated
May 14, 2025
NOAA Extreme Weather Database Shutdown after 45 Years
May 09, 2025
Terrorist Group Threatens to Destroy NOAA Weather Radar
May 06, 2025
Earth Day Under the Trump Regime
Apr 24, 2025
Pope Francis Manifesto on Earth Facing Danger
Apr 22, 2025
Where Does Hurricane Debris Go? WaPo Tracked Some with AirTags
Apr 18, 2025
Bloodbath Continues at NOAA and the National Weather Service
Apr 18, 2025
Australia’s Impacts from Severe Tropical Cyclone Errol
Apr 16, 2025
The Abrego Garcia Constitutional Crisis
Apr 16, 2025
Florida Follows Trump: Changes Name of Gulf of Mexico to Display American Exceptionalism
Apr 15, 2025
Climate Anxiety? Trump’s Solution: STOP Research
Apr 11, 2025
American Brain Drain Amid Scientific Hostility & Slashed Spending
Apr 11, 2025
Trump Nazi Bullshit at EPA, FEMA & NOAA
Apr 07, 2025
Upside Down Rhino Rides by Helicopter 🚁🦏
Apr 05, 2025
Double Whammy HIGH Risk for Tornados and Flooding
Apr 02, 2025
Hurricane Milton: The Official Word is Out
Apr 01, 2025
Climate Does NOT Always Mean “Climate Change”
Mar 31, 2025
Dumbass Florida Legislators Propose Law to Ban Non-Existent Chemtrails in Trend of American Idiocy
Mar 30, 2025
South Texas Rio Grande Valley Flooding Leads to Fatalities as Severe Weather Threat Takes Shape
Mar 29, 2025
Tampa Could Get Hotter Due to 2024 Hurricanes Destroying Tampa Trees
Mar 28, 2025
FEMA Under Threat of Shutdown Amidst Increasing Climate Disasters
Mar 27, 2025
SpaceX Rocket Dumps Fuel in Swirl: What’s the Environmental Cost?
Mar 27, 2025
Hurricane News: FEMA Borrows $2 Billion for Helene & Milton, Florida Fallen Tree Act, Hurricane Hunters
Mar 25, 2025
Alabama Bill Would Make Chemtrails Illegal
Mar 23, 2025
Great Blue Hole Reveals Great Big Secrets About Hurricanes Past and Future Predictions
Mar 23, 2025
Denied Entry: French Scientist, Terrorist or Spy?
Mar 22, 2025
Black Saturday: The Day American Democracy Died
Mar 21, 2025
NHC Issues Hurricane Helene Tropical Cyclone Report
Mar 21, 2025
Weather is Making Allergy Season Worse
Mar 20, 2025
🍀 St. Patrick's Day Green River Dye Toxic?
Mar 18, 2025
Hurricane Hunters Face BIG Challenges Due to Funding Constraints
Mar 18, 2025
March 14-16 Tornado Outbreak: Stories of Survival
Mar 17, 2025
Northern Italy Floods, Again
Mar 16, 2025
Is American Society Falling Apart via Social Media Misinformation and Structural Stupidity?
Mar 15, 2025
Tornado Outbreak: Rare Level 5 “High Risk” for Severe Weather
Mar 14, 2025
Water Woes for California & Other Western States Due to Trump Cuts
Mar 14, 2025
Global Weather Connected to Sea Ice, Extreme Weather Affects Education
Mar 14, 2025
Blood Moon: March 13-14 2025 Total Lunar Eclipse of the Americas
Mar 12, 2025
Microplastics Influence the Weather, Endanger Your Health
Mar 12, 2025
Strong Pacific Storm Brings Potential for Tornado Outbreak Late Week
Mar 11, 2025
Florida Insurance Companies Hide BIG Profits to Raise Homeowners Rates
Mar 11, 2025
Profits over People: Trump Cuts Hurt Americans and Help Big Corporations
Mar 09, 2025
NOAA Expected to Lose 20% of Staff with Next Round of Firings
Mar 09, 2025
New National Hurricane Center Products 2025
Mar 08, 2025
Hurricane Hunters Encounter Major Turbulence from loss of Key Personnel
Mar 07, 2025
Scientists and Supporters Will "Stand Up for Science" on March 7, 2025
Mar 07, 2025
Trump Bypasses Enviornmental Regulations to Cut Down America’s National Forests
Mar 05, 2025
Is Foggy Florida Connected to “Operation Sea Spray” Bioweapon?
Mar 05, 2025
How YOU Are Impacted by the NOAA Massacre
Mar 04, 2025
Stand Up for Science March 7th Amid NOAA Firings of Hurricane Hunters
Mar 01, 2025
The Industrialists Who Regretted Backing Hitler and the Nazis
Mar 01, 2025
Meteorologists Fired: NOAA Cuts Could Put You in Danger Thanks to Trump & Musk
Feb 28, 2025
American Farmers Sue USDA for Deleting Climate Data
Feb 27, 2025
The Words “Gulf of Mexico” and “Climate Change” May Cost Floridians Billions of Dollars
Feb 27, 2025
Wind Load Impact on Tall Buildings During Severe Wind Events
Feb 26, 2025
Volcanic Unrest at Mount Spurr, Alaska
Feb 26, 2025
2025 Hurricane Season Forecast
Feb 25, 2025
100 Days till Hurricane Season 2025
Feb 21, 2025
Was Trump Recruited as KGB Asset in 1987?
Feb 21, 2025
Asteroid 2024 YR4 Changing Impact Risk
Feb 21, 2025
NYC Congestion Pricing: Good for Air Quality, Weather, Climate, Health…
Feb 21, 2025
NOAA, CDC, EPA, DOE, NPS, NASA Cuts Equate to Small Budget Changes, Big Concerns for You
Feb 20, 2025
NOAA Weather Data & Disaster Relief Donkeys
Feb 20, 2025
Science Under Attack by the Trump Administration
Feb 19, 2025
Ohio Valley Flooding & Potential FEMA Changes
Feb 19, 2025
Climate Change, Home Values, and Insurance
Feb 18, 2025
How Weather is Leading to the Decline of Florida’s Citrus Industry
Feb 18, 2025
Escalating Red Tide Algae Bloom in Florida and its Impacts
Feb 17, 2025
Hottest January on Record Globally but it was Cold in USA
Feb 17, 2025
Santorini Greece Earthquake Crisis - February 2025
Feb 16, 2025
NOAA: Gulf of America or Gulf of Mexico?
Feb 15, 2025
Trump Effect on NOAA Forces Restrictions and Concerns
Feb 14, 2025
Red States Hurt Most by the Trump Administration's Climate Funding Freeze
Feb 12, 2025
State of the Climate - 2024 and Beyond
Feb 11, 2025
Future of FEMA: Shut it Down or Diminish it’s Role?
Feb 11, 2025
The Bronze Age “Tempest Stela” Weather Report & Santorini’s Thera
Feb 10, 2025
DOGE Scrutinizes NOAA
Feb 10, 2025
Could Starlink & Other Satellites Reignite the Ozone Hole Problem?
Feb 09, 2025
Milton & Helene Update on FEMA Hotels, $32 Duke Energy Surcharge, and Florida Disaster Unemployment
Feb 08, 2025
5 Winter Storms Expected Over the Next Two Weeks
Feb 08, 2025
How the Alt US National Parks Service is Trying to Save America
Feb 07, 2025
Germany 1933: Donald Trump’s Rise to Power
Feb 06, 2025
US National Weatherperson’s Day & Meteorology Careers Today
Feb 05, 2025
Florida Heat and Lack of Worker Safety Protections
Feb 05, 2025
Pacific’s Axial Seamount Underwater Volcano Forecast to Erupt in 2025
Feb 03, 2025
Florida Flooding Continues 4 Months After Hurricane Milton
Feb 02, 2025
Oklahoma Senate Bill 158 - Storm Chaser License
Feb 01, 2025
Trump Policies Spur NOAA Email Chaos & Expected Cuts to Weather/Science
Feb 01, 2025
Property Tax and Home Insurance Rates Up as Global Temperatures Rise
Jan 31, 2025
Historic Gulf Coast Snowstorm Dumps Record Snow in Florida
Jan 27, 2025
Local TV Meteorologist Layoffs Put on Hold Due to Public Backlash
Jan 26, 2025
Potential Trump-Era Environmental & Climate Policy Reversals
Jan 20, 2025
The US Home Insurance Crisis
Jan 19, 2025
Weather Cats of the Mount Washington Observatory
Jan 18, 2025
Trump Nominees Environmental Stances
Jan 17, 2025
Nantucket House Taken by Rising Sea Level 6 Months After Sale for $200,000
Jan 16, 2025
FEMA Housing Screw Up
Jan 15, 2025
Hurricane Helene Housing Crisis
Jan 14, 2025
Wetter Weather Can Intensify Wildfire Risk
Jan 13, 2025
LA Wildfires and the Misinformation Storm
Jan 11, 2025
2024: HOTTEST Year on Record Exceeds 1.5°C Threshold
Jan 10, 2025
Evacuation to Air Quality: Southern California Wildfire Tips
Jan 09, 2025
Major Winter Storm Forecast to Bring Southern Snow… Again
Jan 09, 2025
Lives Lost and Over 1000 Structures Burned as Los Angeles Wildfires Become Worst in Area History
Jan 08, 2025
Biden Designates Two New National Monuments in California
Jan 08, 2025
When Risks Become Reality: 2024 Extreme Weather
Jan 08, 2025
Florida’s New AI-Driven Hurricane & Emergency Alert System
Jan 06, 2025
Yellowstone’s Super Volcano Eruption Forecast
Jan 05, 2025
Florida: Ban Asphalt Shingle Roofs?
Jan 04, 2025
Fogvid-24, Smart Dust, or Simply Fog?
Jan 02, 2025
Helene Aftermath: NC Recovery 3 Months Later
Jan 01, 2025
Miami’s Sinking Skyline
Dec 31, 2024
Jimmy Carter's Environmental Legacy
Dec 30, 2024
January Cold Snap: Accuracy, Limits, and Looming Winter Weather
Dec 29, 2024
US Military Christmas Tradition History: NORAD Tracks Santa and Operation Christmas Drop
Dec 25, 2024
The Long Road to Recovery: How Hurricanes Helene and Milton Continue to Impact Tampa Bay Residents in December 2024
Dec 24, 2024
Christmas 2024 Travel Briefing: Weather Impacts and White Christmas Predictions
Dec 23, 2024
Miami and Tampa: High Risk to Climate Change, Rising Sea Level
Dec 17, 2024
Walkable Cities Good for Earth While Americans Prefer Suburbia
Dec 16, 2024
Hurricane Helene: Impact Erwin Tennessee
Dec 03, 2024
Lake Effect: 6 Feet of Snow Forecast for Watertown, NY
Nov 29, 2024
Gust vs Sustained Wind: Application to Building Standards
Nov 29, 2024
Thanksgiving Week Weather
Nov 28, 2024
Deadlines Loom for FEMA Hurricane Disaster Assistance, Unemployment, and Appeals
Nov 25, 2024
What a Second Trump Term Means for Science
Nov 25, 2024
Climate Change Supercharged Hurricane Season 2024
Nov 23, 2024
November Florida Hurricanes & Potential Sara
Nov 13, 2024
Abortion and LGBTQ Community Cause Hurricanes?
Nov 12, 2024
Biden Protecting Climate Protections from Donald Trump
Nov 11, 2024
Climate Policy: Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump
Nov 05, 2024
National Hurricane Center Monitoring Possible Development for November Tropical Systems
Nov 02, 2024
Valencia Deadly Flash Flood: Latest in a String of Floods that Seem to be Getting More Frequent & More Severe
Oct 30, 2024
Weeks After Hurricane Milton, Floods Still Ongoing Along Withlacoochie River in Florida
Oct 29, 2024
More Billion Dollar Disasters Like Hurricanes Aided by Population Shift
Oct 28, 2024
Multiple Hurricane Strikes in Florida is Normal, Not Climate Change
Oct 24, 2024
“Operation Popeye” and HAARP are Not to Blame for Hurricanes Milton & Helene
Oct 24, 2024
DeSantis Backed Florida Law Benefits Insurance Companies to Deny Claims After Hurricanes Helene & Milton
Oct 24, 2024
Hurricane Catastrophe: Lower Income People Affected Disproportionately with Little Help
Oct 23, 2024
FEMA - National Flood Insurance Program’s 50% Rule
Oct 22, 2024
Engineered for Hurricanes: The “Three Little Pigs” Were Almost Right
Oct 21, 2024
NO, Hurricane Milton and Hurricane Helene were NOT Products of Weather Control but were Influenced by Climate Change
Oct 19, 2024
Tampa Soap Opera: Hurricane Evacuation Defier “Lieutenant Dan” Arrested After Surviving Helene and Milton on Boat
Oct 19, 2024
Florida Homeowners Sell Due to Hurricanes, Flooding and Out of Control Costs
Oct 18, 2024
Florida Always Near Top in Hurricane Building Codes
Oct 17, 2024
Miami King Tides: Flooding this Weekend and Beyond
Oct 16, 2024
Mental Health Check: Hurricane Fatigue and PTSD After Helene and Milton
Oct 15, 2024
Where Will Home Prices Go After Hurricanes Helene & Milton?
Oct 14, 2024
Armed Militia Threatens Hurricane Helene Relief Workers in North Carolina Hampering Efforts
Oct 14, 2024
Florida’s Insurance Crisis Deepens in the Wake of Hurricanes Helene & Milton
Oct 14, 2024
EC-AIFS AI Euro Model Blows Away the Competition with Hurricane Milton Forecast
Oct 14, 2024
Climate Change Impacts on Hurricane Milton: Wetter, Windier & More Destructive
Oct 12, 2024
Was Mar-a-lago Open to Trump Supporters to Evacuate for Hurricane Milton?
Oct 12, 2024
Hurricane Milton Conspiracy Theories: Putting Lives at Risk
Oct 11, 2024
Hurricane Milton - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Oct 11, 2024
Hurricane Milton - Florida Hazards Include Storm Surge, Flash Flood, High Wind, & Tornados 🌪️
Oct 09, 2024
Hurricane Milton - Storm Surge Height Forecast Scenarios
Oct 08, 2024
Hurricane Milton: Tampa Bay & Florida West Coast Flood Scenarios
Oct 08, 2024
Flooding: How to Prepare, What to Expect, What to Do
Oct 08, 2024
Milton Now a Major Hurricane - Storm Surge to 12’ - Evacuations Begin Today
Oct 07, 2024
Hurricane Milton - 145 MPH Winds Forecast - Florida Peninsula on Alert
Oct 07, 2024
Hurricane Hunters Say Milton is Rapidly Intensifying as We Look at Different Landfall Scenarios
Oct 06, 2024
Hurricane Evacuation & Preparedness Tips, Even for Your EV
Oct 06, 2024
Rapid Intensification - Milton Forecast to be a Category 3 Hurricane
Oct 06, 2024
Florida Expecting Impact from Hurricane Milton with Dangerous Storm Surge and 110 mph Winds
Oct 05, 2024
Growing Insurance Failures Take Spotlight After Hurricane Helene
Oct 05, 2024
Hurricane Helene’s Toxic Flood Waters
Oct 04, 2024
Hurricane Helene - HAARP Engineered and Steered to Wipe Out a Town
Oct 04, 2024
Hurricane Ian: Investigation Shows Homeowners Insurance Companies Not Paying Up After 2 Years
Oct 03, 2024
Asheville - Climate Change “Safe Haven”?
Oct 03, 2024
What’s Your Flood Risk? Tools to Help you Determine
Oct 03, 2024
Hurricane Helene - Bomb after the Lull
Oct 03, 2024