Ginger Zee visits PCARC

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Ginger Zee, NBC5 meteorologist in Chicago, gave a very interesting weather presentation at our PCARC club meeting on April 3, 2009, and she also posed for many pictures (below) with our club members and guests after the presentation. Here is a brief biography of Ginger taken from the NBC website:

Weather has always been a huge part of Ginger Zee's life. She was born in LA, but was raised in western Michigan. Ginger attributes her passion for meteorology to a summer of extreme weather at a cottage on the shores of Lake Michigan.

She was always fascinated with math and science as a child, and went on to study Meteorology at Valparaiso University. Ginger's B.S. in Meteorology (along with minors in Math and Spanish in tow, plus internships and experience in storm chasing), helped her move from WLAV (Grand Rapids, MI) to WEYI (Flint, MI) to WOOD TV (Grand Rapids, MI) and now NBC5.

Since September of 2006 Ginger has worked double shifts on weekends (Saturday and Sundays 6 - 10 a.m., 5 and 10 p.m.) but also takes on a second role as NBC5's Green Is Universal environmental reporter. Her Green is Universal reports air every Thursday on the 6 p.m. newscast.

Ginger is an Adjunct Professor at her alma mater, Valparaiso University. She also spends time at schools in and around Chicago and northwest Indiana, bringing her passion for weather to the classroom.

Ginger was the proud recipient of a Regional Emmy award for Best Weathercast in 2007 and 2008.

Ginger and unknown	Ginger, Halie M. and N9VLT	KC9DJO, Ginger and W9VAY
KC9KTV, Ginger and KC9NEB	W4SV and Ginger	PCARC pose for Ginger

Another impressive item at our April 3rd meeting was the Northern Indiana District EMA Emergency Response Vehicle brought by Paul, AE9P, and Dennis, N9DPP. Cameras, satellite TV and Internet, numerous communications stations for both state EMA frequencies and amateur radio... even a conference room! Very impressive! Click the pictures for a larger view.