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About the author
Dr. Joel N. Myers, Founder and Executive Chairman of AccuWeather, is considered the “father of modern commercial meteorology” and the nation’s most respected authority on the business of weather. A visionary entrepreneur who The New York Times named “the most accurate man in weather,” Dr. Myers started AccuWeather as a graduate student in 1962 and built the company into a global leader in forecast accuracy, weather-related big data, business, and predictive analytics.
Today, AccuWeather is recognized as the proven most accurate and most used source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world, serving more than half of Fortune 500 companies and billions of people worldwide on AccuWeather.com, the AccuWeather app, radio, television, newspapers, digital signage, and cable and streaming platforms through the AccuWeather Network and AccuWeather NOW. AccuWeather’s track record of Superior Accuracy™ in weather forecasting and warnings has saved over 10,000 lives, prevented injury to over 100,000 people, minimized reputational harm, and saved companies tens of billions of dollars.
Dr. Myers has been recognized in Entrepreneur Magazine’s Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs as one of the greatest entrepreneurs in American history. He received the American Meteorological Society’s 2018 Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of Applied Meteorology and the National Weather Association’s 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award, in addition to numerous other accolades.
His first book, Invisible Iceberg: When Climate and Weather Shaped History, debuted at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2024 and was the #1 New Release in Weather on Amazon. He has also published papers in many leading scientific journals including Scientific American and The Journal of Applied Meteorology and delivered hundreds of speeches over a range of subjects, including a TED Talk and as an invited lecturer at The New York Academy of Sciences and many other scientific, leadership, and charitable organizations.
Dr. Myers is a sought-out expert in international business and digital media and has made hundreds of national TV appearances. His comments and expertise have appeared in Time, Inc., Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fortune, Forbes, and thousands of other publications throughout his career.
MFOB featured book: Invisible Iceberg
Join AccuWeather founder and chairman Dr. Joel N. Myers on a journey from the beginning of time to the modern day to see how weather and climate impacted world events throughout history, both the good and the bad.
Learn about the comet that hit Earth almost 67 million years ago, and how it triggered a massive climate disruption that led to the extinction of the dinosaur; the dramatic climate shift in 1213 BC that created the conditions for the Ten Plagues of Egypt, a foundational moment in three major world religions; how superior knowledge of the winds allowed the ancient Greeks to prevail over Persian attackers in 400 BC; the volcano in 44 BC that helped launch the Roman Empire; how Tropical storms thwarted Mongol invaders and preserved an independent Japan in 1273; how the “Little Ice Age” ushered in the age of the European Witch Trials, which eventually influenced the Salem Witch Trials; the shipwreck of the Sea Venture in 1609 in an Atlantic hurricane that inspired Shakespeare’s last play The Tempest; the fog that helped to create an independent United States of America during the Revolutionary War; the storm in 1814 that ended the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte; the “Great White Hurricane,” i.e. two major blizzards, that helped create the New York Subway System in 1888; and so much more!
Also explored are weather what-ifs, including the haunting question: Would the hurricane that remained off the coast have prevented the deadly attacks of September 11, 2001, if it had just moved inland? Dr. Myers founded AccuWeather, the world’s most accurate source of highly localized weather forecasts and warnings everywhere in the world, in 1962, and ever since, he has been the foremost authority on all things weather. Invisible Iceberg: When Climate and Weather Shaped History is an exciting, sometimes shocking, trip around the world and through time to prove once and for all that weather really does shape the world and the course of history!
