Biggest threat for I-20 cities is ice accumulation. Don't focus entirely on snow accumulation potential. #alwx pic.twitter.com/RURCG2nvyo
— James Spann (@spann) February 9, 2014
The Birmingham-based meteorologist constantly responds to his 144k+ Twitter followers’ weather-related questions and retweets user-submitted photos from around the state, all while helming the televised weather forecast on a local ABC affiliate’s news show. He helped pioneer the use of Twitter as an information source during extreme weather events with his minute-by-minute coverage of the April 2011 tornado that devastated the Southeast. —Victor Luckerson
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