My backyard during the blizzard of 2011.

My name is Damon Lewis, AKA Weatherdemon.

I have been interested in the weather since I was a kid and would go outside with my grandfather and he would smell the air, look around, and know if it was going to rain, snow, or be sunny in the next few days. I always in awe with how he could do that so I started paying attention to what was going on trying to figure out how he did it.

While I have never officially studied meteorology, I have spent many, many hours researching it, reading others blogs, messages boards, National Weather Service discussions and forecast's, Storm Prediction Center updates, watching the local weather guys from Lee Woodward and Lionel to Don Woods and Gusty to Gary Shore to Jim Giles and now usually Dan Threlkeld, Andy Wallace, George Flickinger, Julie Chin, Travis Meyer, Dick Fuerot, and James Adelot although all the meteorologists in Oklahoma have to be very good to be able to predict our weather with any level of accuracy.

My nickname was given to me by one of the kids I worked with at Children's Medical Center in the late 90's. I would put up a 5 day forecast each day that I worked as some of the kids rarely paid attention to the forecast and would wake up and put on shorts with snow on the ground or a jacket when it was 80 degrees outside. I was putting up the forecast one evening and one the kids jokingly referred to me a "Demon". That not being appropriate for that setting, I told them that wouldn't work. One of the kids said, "How about WeatherDamon?!" then another said, "What about WeatherDemon?!?" With the context of it and light hearted nature of the conversation I told them that was very cool and they could use it.

With the advent of the internet games and message boards, I took my new nickname there for all of my message board and video game alias and now, for my Severe Weather Event Blog.

To create my forecasts I information from the National Weather Service office in Tulsa, Norman, and Wichita. I also use information from the Storm Prediction Center, other weather blogs and message boards, the local broadcast meteorologists, by reviewing multiple computer models, and some instinct from living in Oklahoma for 38 years.

This blog started from me sending out weather updates via email to family and a few friends. These emails began to get forwarded to others who eventually asked to be added to the distribution list. The list now includes family, friends, acquaintances, and current and former co-workers. While I have no idea how many people these emails are forwarded to, from what I am told, it is a lot. With the audience growing and people's email addresses changing with some regularity at times, I felt a blog might be more suitable for this. I have been asked to tweet the updates but I really can't get all of the information I feel needs to go out in a tweet. The blog updates will be sent to Twitter and Facebook within 30 minutes of being posted. If it is urgent information, I will push it out immediately.