Mike Brennan begins new position as Director of the Countrywide Hurricane Middle

MIAMI – With the 2023 Atlantic Hurricane Season ideal all-around the corner, NOAA has a new director at the Nationwide Hurricane Centre.

Mike Brennan commenced his initial working day on the position as director on Monday, April 10th.

“Mike possesses the right blend of experience, management, and particular features to put together and guide us by means of main storms,” claimed Rick Spinrad, Ph.D., NOAA administrator.

Brennan began his NHC job in 2008 as a senior hurricane expert. He has invested almost all of his 15-year NOAA job at NHC, and for the past yr has served as the performing NHC deputy director. Since 2018, Brennan has been the branch chief of the Hurricane Expert Unit.

“For the duration of this time period, he supervised one particular of NOAA’s best profile operational forecast units as a result of 18 U.S. landfalling hurricanes – which include eight big hurricanes – and far more than 20 U.S. tropical storm landfalls,” in accordance to a assertion from the Nationwide Hurricane Center.  

Brennan fills the job still left vacant by the departure of Ken Graham, who turned the director of the Countrywide Weather Service in June 2022. Jamie Rhome has served as the performing director of the National Hurricane Center because that time and resumes his responsibilities as the center’s deputy director.

“I had the enjoyment of doing the job with Mike for four many years at NHC, exactly where I observed his steadfast determination to the mission of saving lives and assets,” claimed Graham. “Mike is an innovator who has built amazing associations throughout the agency and with our unexpected emergency management and media associates, and I appear forward to the excellent points in advance at NHC under his leadership.”

Brennan acquired a Bachelor’s in Meteorology, and a Masters and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science, all from North Carolina State College.

The Nationwide Hurricane Centre is co-found with the Nationwide Weather conditions Service Miami-South Florida forecast office environment on the campus of Florida Global University.