During his time in California , Javaheri received an Emmy nomination for outstanding achievement in weather from the San Francisco / Northern California Emmy Awards . In August 2010 , ''Iranian.com '' honored him as its Iranian of the Day . He was part of the CNN weather team that won the prestigious Peabody Award for its coverage of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico . On March 11 , 2011 , in the aftermath of the devastating Japanese earthquake , he and CNN U.S. meteorologist Chad Myers became the first duo in CNN ’s history to simultaneously forecast and cover the resulting tsunami and its impact to a global audience
Japanese earthquake
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Pedram Javaheri