FARGO — The majority of people who live on America’s West Coast are concerned about climate change. The same can be said about people who live in western Europe. Although the politics of these regions certainly lean differently than here in middle America, the attitude about global warming has likely been accelerated by more obvious changes in the weather. Heat, drought, and wildfires are on the increase along the West Coast and across Europe, winters are consistently and noticeably warmer and summer heat waves more frequent. Nowhere, though, is climate change more obvious than in the arctic, where average temperatures are warming about four times faster than the rest of the world. The arctic is still a frigid place in winter, but things are changing. Sea ice is forming weeks later and melting weeks earlier than a few decades ago. John Wheeler is Chief Meteorologist for WDAY, a position he has had since May of 1985. Wheeler grew up in the South, in Louisiana and Alabama, and cites his family’s move to the Midwest as important to developing his fascination with weather and climate. Wheeler lived in Wisconsin and Iowa as a teenager. He attended Iowa State University and achieved a B.S. degree in Meteorology in 1984. Wheeler worked about a year at WOI-TV in central Iowa before moving to Fargo and WDAY..
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