Mike Leduc
I have been a meteorologist with Environment
Canada for 39 years now, the last 4 as a part time employee. After a few years forecasting in Gander NL
and then Ottawa, I spent most of my career at
the Ontario Storm
Prediction Center
in Toronto. I was an operational forecaster who became
intensely interested in using radar to forecast severe weather both summer and
winter. For 18 years, through most of
the eighties and nineties, I was in charge of the severe weather program in Ontario. My interest in radar was heightened by the
introduction of the first Doppler radar at King
City near Toronto in 1985 and I have devoted much of my
time to radar related forecasting techniques. In 2001 I became involved in the development of the URP radar software
and led the national training for meteorologists. I became a part time employee
in 2005 and have been working with
developing forecasting techniques related to the polarimetric radar and have continued to be involved
in general radar training.