What The Weather Podcast

Dr. Corey Sloan is a thirty-one-year emergency services veteran with a unique and diverse background ranging from Police, Fire, EMT, Emergency Communications, storm chasing, and much much more. He recently graduated this month with is Doctor of Education in Public Health Professions from A.T. Still University in Kirksville, MO.

Johnny Rowlands is a veteran helicopter pilot and traffic reporter as well as Chief Pilot of KMBC’s News Chopper 9. He was a radio disc jockey in the mid-1970s, and started his television career on Channel 9 in the late ’70s as a co-host of the Muscular Dystrophy Telethon. He captures spectacular video of some of Kansas City’s biggest storms and stories. He was a member of the original “First News” team in the late ’80s as Kansas City’s first television airborne traffic reporter, piloting his Cessna over the Kansas City morning rush hour. In 2003, he took over the controls of News Chopper 9 capturing the May 4th, 2003 tornado outbreak, the May 8, 2003 Lawrence, Kansas, and May 28th, 2019 Linwood, Kansas tornado.

Joe Lauria is the evening news meteorologist for FOX4 Kansas City. He joined the station in January 1995, but weather has been an important part of his life since childhood. Growing up in New York, he remembers being fascinated by clouds and snowstorms at the age of 10. Although Winter remains his favorite weather season because of those hard-to-forecast snowstorms, he’s also lead on-air during major metropolitan severe weather events such as the May 28, 2019 Linwood, Kansas and the May 4, 2003 tornado outbreak sequence.

What The Weather Podcasts features veteran storm chasers James Skivers and Shawna Davies along with resident meteorologist, severe weather researcher, Jon Davies. Our guests range from emergency managers, US National Weather Service staff, television meteorologists, researchers, helicopter pilots, chasers, photographers, and much more. All episodes are uncut and recorded live in our studio with face-to-face conversations over a myriad of topics.

We invite you to listen to a short trailer which is a sample episode including one of our guests. We hope you enjoy it!

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Lisa Teachman is an Emmy Award-winning meteorologist and Chief Meteorologist of the KSNW-TV Weather Center in Wichita, covering much of the state of Kansas.

Born and raised in the Wichita suburb of Haysville, KSNW-TV is where she began her broadcasting career in 1996 as a meteorology intern. Upon completing her undergraduate studies at Wichita State University and Mississippi State University, she went on to serve weather teams in Huntington, WV; Baltimore, MD; and also KMBC and KCTV in Kansas City.