Mike Bettes

Michael Bettes (born January 9, 1972) is an American television meteorologist and storm chaser who works for The Weather Channel in Atlanta, Georgia. He was a co-host of AMHQ: America's Morning Headquarters. He hosts Weather Underground TV. Bettes has been an on-camera meteorologist for TWC since 2003, and is also an occasional fill-in weather anchor on The Today Show. Bettes hosted Abrams & Bettes Beyond the Forecast from 2006 to 2009, and Your Weather Today from 2009 to 2012. When it was relaunched as Morning Rush, he hosted it into 2014. The program was relaunched again in March of that year as America's Morning Headquarters. Bettes also formerly hosted Wake Up With Al, from 2009–2014. Bettes is a field reporter for The Weather Channel and is lead field meteorologist for The Great Tornado Hunt, the annual show that summarizes the nation's tornado seasons. Bettes accompanied scientists for TWC coverage of VORTEX2. He also has reported live from Hurricane Milton, Hurricane Helene, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Sandy, and other tropical cyclones, as well as the 2011 Joplin tornado, floods and winter storms. He survived the 2013 El Reno tornado in Oklahoma. A year later he and his crew returned to the Great Plains to forecast and report severe weather as part of the 2014 Tornado Track.