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Chuck Wiese

B.S. Atmospheric Science

Chuck Wiese, while at KOIN Radio and Television in Portland, Oregon, prepared and broadcasted daily weather reports and forecasts for the station (both in radio and television) from 1969 to 1981. During this time, he also served as a company pilot to fly news crews and retrieve film coverage for expediency to various places around Oregon when needed in 1973-74. In 1971, Chuck became known as "the nation's youngest television weathercaster" and appeared on the nationally syndicated television show "To Tell The Truth" in December of 1972. The show aired in February of 1973. Mr. Wiese took a leave of absence from this work in September of 1974 to begin an undergraduate program in atmospheric science at Oregon State University. Chuck would resume work at at KOIN-TV in September of 1975 as a part-time employee, but then reverted back to full-time employment in March of 1979 when he was hired by the Lee Enterprise Corporation (which owned KOIN-TV) as a consulting meteorologist for Lee Weather, Inc., which prepared site-specific weather forecasts to its specialized clients. Also, for a brief period of time, Mr. Wiese prepared weather forecasts daily as an on-air meteorologist while working at KXL Radio from 1980 to 1981.

From 1981 to 1983, Chuck served as an operational on and off-air TV meteorologist for WCCO-TV in Minnesota wherein he prepared and delivered daily weather forecasts for public consumption - with an emphasis on severe weather that presented a danger to the public. He was awarded an AMS Television Seal of Approval for his efforts.

Chuck would go on to serve as a television meteorologist for KING-TV in Seattle from 1983 to 1987. In this role, Mr. Wiese prepared and delivered television weathercasts to the public with an emphasis on forecast accuracy for the region that covered the Puget Sound of western Washington. He resigned from this role in August of 1987 to make a career change into commercial aviation. Chuck began his career in commercial aviation at San Juan Airlines in Washington in May of 1988. Mr. Wiese's role was that of a First Officer (co-pilot). He worked on San Juan Airlines' BE-99 airliner that served western Washington as a commuter feeder to United Airlines. The company ceased operations in December of 1988.

After San Juan Airlines, Chuck worked at Horizon Airlines from 1989 to 1997 in Portland, Oregon. He started as a First Officer on an SA-227 turboprop that served every one of the northwestern states in the United States, but he moved up to the role of Captain in 1990 and continued in that position until his time with the airline came to a conclusion. Mr. Wiese obtained type ratings on the SA-227 (Swearingen Metroliner) and DO-328 (Dornier 328 Turboprop). He also served as a Meteorology Ground Instructor. Then, between 1997 and 1998, Chuck was a First Officer at Reno Air in San Jose, California, where he was trained to fly the MD-88 and MD-90 (McDonnel Douglas DC-9 series) aircrafts over the company's passenger routes in California and Nevada.

After his stint at Reno Air, Chuck took up work at Northwest Airlines between 1998 and 2005 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Chuck flew Northwest's DC-9 series aircraft. His flight paths covered all of the central United States and the East Coast. In 2005, Delta merged with Northwest Airlines. Chuck, however, remained in his position until his retirement in 2016. Upgrades to the role of captain were very difficult to obtain in this company without making domicile sacrifices, so Mr. Wiese resolved to continue as a First Officer in order to stay in Minneapolis, and then move to Seattle in 2013. This decision allowed Chuck to receive Captain Type Ratings Training, permitting him to fly both the Boeing 757 and 767. As a result, he was able to engage in international flights (China, Japan, and Europe; particularly the Netherlands, Ireland, the UK, France, and Italy). Mr. Wiese accumulated upwards of 15,000 flight hours during the course of his career.

Notably, Chuck incorporated Weatherwise in 1992, a business which would be operated as a consultant company in meteorology and used to develop a first-of-its-kind weather instrument - "the Windicator" - which predicts peak wind gusts from an approaching wave cyclone (mid-latitude storm). This instrument measures real-time atmospheric pressure change from such storms when they're approaching and converts the signal to a peak wind gust predictive value through a mathematical algorithm that Mr. Wiese developed. It received a US patent (#5,372,039) in August of 1993 entitled "Apparatus and Method for Determining Geostrophic Wind Velocity". In addition to this, Chuck consults with the legal profession when called upon for analysis and expert testimony in meteorology and has given numerous speeches to political organizations who seek the truth about climate change, the falsification of it, and claims that atmospheric CO2 is causing dangerous warming and severe storms.

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