Celebrity meteorologists gain fame amid the hurricanes

Cantore reporting on Hurricane Irene from Battery Park in New York City (Jonathan Saruk/The Weather Channel/Getty Images)
Before Hurricane Harvey inundated Texas, or Hurricane Irma ripped through the Caribbean and savaged Florida—and as Hurricane Maria wracks damage on Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands with unexpected velocity—only a limited audience had heard of Steve Lyons or Jim Cantore or Ryan Maue or Jörg Kachelmann. Today, they