Women's History Month is an opportunity to reflect on four pioneering women in meteorology.
She holds the distinctions of being the first African-American woman meteorologist and the first woman television meteorologist in the US
sector, the National Weather Service, and NOAA, Bacon-Bercey helped establish the AMS Board on Women and Minorities, which I chaired over two decades ago, and was instrumental in establishing a meteorology laboratory at Jackson State University, a historically black college or university that is unique in its production of outstanding black meteorologists. I was fortunate to work with Dr. Simpson, but I never met Ms. Bacon-Bercey., Chief Meteorologist on television and on Univision Radio .
after Hurricane Maria. If there were any doubts about the human impact of that storm, she put them to bed for anyone listening. I am probably understating when I say that Ada Monzón is a meteorological legend in Puerto Rico. Mrs. Monzón has worked in the private and public sector for over 30 years and has been a central voice for weather warnings in Puerto Rico. Her empathetic warnings and communication work during Hurricane Maria should be studied in classrooms.
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