About Us
Extreme Weather Experience (EWE) is a one-of-a-kind concept to develop a national network of weather education-entertainment (edutainment) resilience centers that will include experiential, immersive, interactive, hands-on weather-themed attractions, rides and exhibits. Also included will be an operational weather forecast center, a multi-media broadcast center, and retail.
EWE visitors will “experience” dangerous weather in a very real, almost frightening way, through immersive, experiential technologies. They will “feel, hear, see, and touch” the weather through experiential, immersive, interactive, hands-on weather-themed attractions, rides and exhibits. Visitors will quiver from lightning and thunder, shiver to cold and snowy winds, and sweat in a sultry heatwave. Special effects, animatronics, and the newest cutting-edge, creative technologies, including virtual and augmented reality media platforms will take the visitor into the weather.
Art, music and live theater will also be a part of the visitor’s experience. Even EWE buildings will be educational exhibits, demonstrating resilient code-plus construction against severe weather, and showcasing green technologies.
Behind the EWE entertainment, attractions, the rides, and the special effects, will be education: meteorology, mitigation, resilience, safety, preparedness, etc. EWE education topics will be presented with the attractions, rides and exhibits in a variety of methods and techniques.
The goal is to motivate visitors to take action to prepare, protect, mitigate and safeguard their families, homes and businesses. Visitors will be empowered, and leave with real life changing takeaways resulting in meaningful lifesaving changed behavior. The result will be a nation more resilient to natural hazards!
Credit for all pictures on this home page: NOAA
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Meet The Extreme Team
Erik Salna, CEO, Extreme Weather Experience
Raymond J. Ban, Ban & Associates, LLC
Tom Bobula, Meteorologist, Business Owner, Steel Crazy
Jim Cantore, On-Camera Meteorologist and Co-Host, AMHQ, The Weather Channel
Ron Gird, NWS-Outreach Program Manager, NOAA (Retired)
Dave Hennen, Senior Meteorologist, Executive Producer, CNN Severe Weather Team
Douglas Hilderbrand, Office of Communications, External Engagement Lead, Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador Lead, NOAA
Dr. Rick Knabb, Hurricane Expert and Tropical Program Manager, The Weather Channel
Bryan Koon, Vice President of International Homeland Security and Emergency Management, IEM
Amber Larkin, Owner/Executive Creative Director Nth Degree Design and Visual fx, Inc.
Barbara G. Levine, B.S. E.C.E., M.A. Ed, Mathworks Tutoring & How the Weatherworks
Michael Lingerfelt, FAIA, Architect, Lingerfelt-International
Tad Maguire, Managing Director International Sales WSI, Corporation
William P. Mahoney III, Deputy Director, Research Applications Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Ben May, Global Business Development Director, Corporate Alliances at The Walt Disney Company (Retired)
Max Mayfield, Hurricane Specialist, WPLG-TV, Former Director of NOAA’s National Hurricane Center
Mike McClellan, President, Mobile Weather Team, Inc.
H. Michael Mogil, Certified Consulting Meteorologist, Certified Broadcast Meteorologist, NCIM President, Mathworks Tutoring & How the Weatherworks
John Morales, CBM, CCM, AMS Fellow, Chief Meteorologist, NBC 6, Miami, FL
Michael Murray, President, Adrenaline Films Productions
Cheryl Nelson, TV Host, Coast Live, WTKR-TV Norfolk & Meteorologist/Instructor, NDPTC
Scott Owen, Director of Dealer Development, IC Realtime
Aris Papadopoulos, Founder and Chair, Resilience Action Fund
Valerie E. Sanders, President/Meteorologist, WeatherCall Services, LLC
Dr. Pablo Santos, Meteorologist In Charge, National Weather Service - Miami
Tim Smail, Executive Director, National Storm Shelter Association (NSSA) Education and Outreach Foundation; Sales Associate for Summerville Shutter Company
Bruce Thomas, National Spokesperson/Chief Meteorologist, Midland Radio Corporation
Matt Tieman, Director, WPBF-TV 25, West Palm Beach, FL
The Future
Extreme Weather Experience is a first-ever immersive weather edu-tainment attraction.
Extreme Weather Experience will electrify audiences in the lightning theater.
