Hello from Phil Lutzak. I live in Brooklyn, New York. I’ve been fascinated with weather since I was very young. My original neighborhood in Queens, New York (near JFK airport) was heavily damaged by Hurricane Donna when I was young. This storm caused a lot of structural damage, destroying houses, snapping large trees in half and downing power lines & street signs everywhere. Being very young, I was amazed that a storm could do this kind of damage in a place that doesn't see many hurricanes. It impressed me so strongly that I started reading any book that I could find about hurricanes, and eventually I sought out more books to understand the meteorology that these hurricane books covered. Ever since, my fascination for anything weather-related, and my desire to understand it, has just continued to grow.