So who owns this weather website?

I have always been fascinated by the weather from a very young age and used to watch the skies for hours to see if I could predict future weather events.

I suppose I was one of those lucky kids who always knew that I wanted to do when I grew up. My dream job was to work in Antarctica as a Meteorologist.

I was living in Brisbane, Australia when I first got my drivers license and my first car. This was very exciting since this region gets hit by some quite severe thunderstorms during the afternoon from late October through to about February. So if there was the opportunity to go to them if they didn't come to me, then I now had a car to do so. This became a weekly ritual during the summer months and I quickly realised that it costs a lot of money to drive up to 500km in the hope that the storm would be worthwhile. What was I to do?... well straight after I finished high school I undertook a travel course and became a travel consultant. I worked in this position for about five years since I loved travelling and had enough money to pay for my move to Melbourne so I could follow my passion and begin studying Atmospheric Science at Monash Uni in Melbourne, Australia.

I thoroughly enjoyed my time at University and found the meteorology subjects extremely exciting. I just couldn't wait to learn more. Although, not every subject was as stimulating. I remember once, when I was sitting for a maths exam when there was a nice thunderstorm banging around outside. I was thinking to myself, yeah...that would be right, stupid storm, why didn't wait until after the exam.

Anyway...halfway during my studies, I was granted a vacation scholarship through the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University. As part of this position I designed and wrote all the material for a new first year subject called The Dynamic Atmosphere.

Now fast forwarding a couple of years...I finally finished my degree and then applied to do honours programme in Atmospheric Science. I was accepted and did my course part time. I then was accepted to undertake a Masters degree by research through distance education in Biometeorology (this topic covers how the weather affects the human body).

I worked diligently on my Masters for 12 months but due to a congenital heart condition and ongoing heart problems, I needed to have heart surgery to fix two heart valves. For this reason, I couldn't finish my postgraduate studies at the time, so instead I decided I wanted to set up a comprehensive weather website that covers topics that helps people like yourself plan your holidays better. I truly hope that I been successful in doing so.

This weather website has attracted just over 18,000 unique visitors in February 2010.

Thanks very much for your time and visiting this weather website.

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