Chad Everett Myers is an American meteorologist and the severe weather expert for CNN . He reports on weather trends across the United States and Canada on a daily basis . Myers earned a bachelor 's degree in meteorology from the University of Nebraska in 1987 . Myers , a native of Buffalo , New York , joined CNN in October 1999 , moving up from working as the morning weather analyst at WXYZ-TV in Detroit . He has received Peabody Awards for contributing to the Gulf War coverage , and for scientific explanations of the BP oil spill and its subsequent capping in the Gulf of Mexico . He also covered the 2011 Japan tsunami and the nuclear meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi reactors
2011 Japan tsunami
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Chad Myers