About Ryan Weather
NOTE: This site is intended for archival purposes only and will not be updated. Please visit http://ryanhoke.com.
I'm Ryan Hoke (ryan@ryanweather.org),
and for
two years I've
been bringing you accurate and detailed weather
information for the
Louisville, Kentucky area. Building
on a strong childhood interest in weather, I created Ryan Weather
during my sophomore year of high school to help prepare me for a career
in meteorology. After months of brainstorming, I put together a website
and produced my first weather forecast video on January 16th, 2007. My
forecast was way off and I needed quite a bit of practice, but it was a
start!WAVE-TV - May
2007
Once
the site was complete and on the Internet, things started getting
interesting. Just 5 months later I was given the opportunity to appear
on WAVE 3 TV in Louisville to promote my website with meteorologist
John Belski during a job shadow at the station (click here
to view).
Not only did this surprise me, but it also signaled the lift-off for my
website. Page view counts came in by the hundreds in the hours
following my broadcast debut on the station.
Storm Chasing
- May/June
2008, June 2009
In February
2008, I was hired as a guide for Storm Chasing Adventure Tours (www.stormchasing.com)
for two weeks in May and June of 2008. My job is to show guests on the
tour what is happening with the storms around us by using streaming
weather data and advanced radar software. Our tour group saw four
tornadoes near Aurora, Nebraska during my second year of chasing in
June 2009. These were the first tornadoes I've witnessed and you can see them in the video below:
The Weather Channel - August 2008
I
submitted one of my forecast videos to a kids video contest for The
Weather Channel in July 2008. After judging was completed in August, I
was named the winner of the "Most Likely to Become a Meteorologist"
category.
The Courier-Journal - January 2009
A feature article about Ryan Weather was published in the Southeast Neighborhoods section of The Courier-Journal on January 14th, 2009. This article contained a behind-the-scenes look at how I got into meteorology and information about the website. Click here to read the article.First Live Broadcast - February 2009
A contest from WAVE 3 TV called "Become a WAVE 3 Weathercaster" started accepting submissions in November of 2008. After judging was completed in January 2009, my video forecast was declared the winner. As part of the prize, I was given the opportunity to present the weather forecast with John Belski on the 5:30pm February 9th, 2009 newscast. To see my first live weathercast, click here.The Road Ahead
I'll be attending Mississippi State University starting August 2009 to earn my professional meteorology degree with emphasis in broadcasting. During this time I hope to obtain an internship or part-time broadcast meteorology position, with the intent of finding a full-time position at a television station or other media outlet when I graduate.
Have a weather or broadcasting job opening that I could fill?
Send me an e-mail at:
ryan@ryanweather.org
