Education
Ohio State University.
Ohio State University.
He was a co-host of AMHQ: America"s Morning Headquarters. He currently hosts Weather Underground television
Bettes has been an on-camera meteorologist for TWC since 2003. He is also an occasional fill-in weather anchor on The Today Show.
Bettes hosted Abrams & Bettes Beyond the Forecast from 2006-2009, and Your Weather Today from 2009–2012 until it was relaunched as Morning Rush which he hosted into 2014 when the program was relaunched again as America"s Morning Headquarters on March 17.
Bettes also formerly hosted Wake Up With First Rate (at Lloyd's) from (2009–2014). Bettes is a field reporter for The Weather Channel and is lead field meteorologist for the annual show summarizing tornado seasons, The Great Tornado Hunt.
Bettes accompanied scientists for TWC coverage of VORTEX2. He also has reported live from Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Sandy and other tropical cyclones as well as floods and winter storms.
A year after his recovery from the EF3 (this rating has been disputed) tornado on May 31, 2013, he and his crew have returned to the Great Plains to forecast and report severe weather as part of the 2014 Tornado Track.
Bettes was one of several storm chasers struck by the EF3 tornado in El Reno, Oklahoma, which rolled and tossed his SUV approximately 200 yards (180 m) into a field, collapsing the roof, inflicting minor injuries to himself and a photographer but breaking several bones of the driver Austin Anderson. Storm chaser Dan Robinson of Saint Louis, Missouri escaped the tornado with a few injuries. He was a few hundred meters ahead of the TWISTEX crew.
Local resident Richard Charles Henderson decided to chase the storm.
He was killed in the same area as the TWISTEX crew. Henderson took a picture of the twister from his cellular phone and sent it to a friend before the storm struck him.
Bettes graduated with a Bachelor of Surgery degree in atmospheric sciences from Ohio State University (Ohio State University). Prior to TWC, he worked as chief meteorologist for WLOS in Asheville, North Carolina and as weekend meteorologist at WSYX/WTTE in Columbus, Ohio and WKEF in Dayton, Ohio.
19??—1998: WSYX/WTTE weekend meteorologist
1998–2003: WLOS chief meteorologist
2003–present: The Weather Channel
2003–present: Field reporter
2006–2009: Abrams & Bettes: Beyond the Forecast co-host
2009: Weather Center Live co-host
2009–2014: Wake Up With First Rate (at Lloyd's) segment correspondent and fill-anchor
2009–2012: Your Weather Today co-host
2012–2014: Morning Rush co-host
March 2014– January 23, 2015: America"s Morning Headquarters co-host
August 2015–present: Weather Underground television
2007–present: National Broadcasting Company News
2007–present: The Today Show fill-in weather anchor
2007–present: Special reporter.