Corey Thompson

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Meteorologist, KCRG-TV9. Iowan. Hawkeye fan. General giant nerd.

A chart showing the highest dew points per observation hour at the Cedar Rapids ASOS site, dating back to 1972. Most of the records are from July 12-14, 1995, including 87 at 8:00 p.m. on July 13, 1995.
A chart showing the maximum dew point values at each observation hour for Iowa City's ASOS station. The highest on the chart is 84 degrees, which date to 1997 and 1998.
A television showing Argentinian players singing their national anthem, captioned "singing in a global language" on Fox television.
"please look at my medicalert bracelet"
Red flowers, I forget what they're called
Rolling green hills border a two-lane highway on a sunny late spring day. A sign in the foreground, left, reads "Welcome to the Center of the USA" with a map of the "lower 48" US states. In small print toward the bottom of the sign, it reads "Lebanon has souvenirs."
A storm report map, with numerous reports in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys.
The Vince McMahon reaction meme.
An image showing the top 10 fastest warm-ups in Cedar Rapids history, based on hourly observations at the Eastern Iowa Airport.
A vibrantly colorful sunset in an urban setting.
Me, wearing the same style of tie that two other television meteorologists were wearing today.
Water flows from a river, across a parking lot, into a small body of water. A pleasant sunset frames the scene
A Jazz Solo cup.
A road conditions map from the Iowa DOT showing poor driving conditions in much of Iowa. Interstate 80 in the Eastern half of the state is adorned with multiple icons indicating crashes.
A snow-covered with a few trees on either side. Tire tracks are visible. A few homes and condos line mainly the right side.
Northern lights, directly overhead.
Northern lights!
A TV meteorologist makes a face and points at his head in front of a graphic describing where the northern lights could be visible.
An infrared satellite image of Hurricane Melissa, showing a very intense tropical system.
A row of colorful fall trees with a paved road in the foreground.
A gray, blustery scene is captured by a web camera in Peosta, Iowa.
A motorcycle parked on the line between two parking spots.
A sportscaster and his call sheet for doing play by play.
A grayish-yellow shelf cloud with a thunderstorm, lightning backlighting the cloud formation. A street runs below.
Rob Lowe dispassionately watches a football game while wearing an NFL hat.
A stormy sky with a single lightning bolt.
Developing cumulonimbus clouds in a time lapse video.
A small thunderstorm updraft, backlit by the setting sun.
A picture of clouds, tinted yellow-orange by the setting sun (not pictured).
A gray sky caused by wildfire smoke in the atmosphere, largely above the ground.
A script for a news video of a tornado in Iowa in 1998. Notably, one person yells "I see it! I see it!"
A screen capture of Radarscope, showing a supercell storm and text of a tornado warning.
The 2023 Eric Sevareid Award for Weather - Team Coverage on Medium Market Television from the MBJA, awarded to KCRG.
A map showing air quality index readings around eastern Iowa, Western Illinois, and Southwest Wisconsin. Readings range from the moderate category to hazardous.
A comparison between a machine learning produced severe weather probability forecast and one drawn by a forecaster at the Storm Prediction Center. The ML output generally shows higher and broader probabilities than the SPC outlook at this range.