Mike Bettes

Michael Bettes (born January 9, 1972) is an American television meteorologist and storm chaser who works for The Weather Channel in Atlanta, Georgia. He was a co-host of AMHQ: America's Morning Headquarters. He hosts Weather Underground TV. Bettes has been an on-camera meteorologist for TWC since 2003, and is also an occasional fill-in weather anchor on The Today Show.

Bettes hosted Abrams & Bettes Beyond the Forecast from 2006 to 2009, and Your Weather Today from 2009 to 2012. When it was relaunched as Morning Rush, he hosted it into 2014. The program was relaunched again in March of that year as America's Morning Headquarters. Bettes also formerly hosted Wake Up With Al, from 2009–2014. Bettes is a field reporter for The Weather Channel and is lead field meteorologist for The Great Tornado Hunt, the annual show that summarizes the nation's tornado seasons. They were later found by Reed Timmer and his SRV Dominator team, who were storm chasing for Oklahoma City's KFOR-TV when they spotted Bettes' wrecked SUV, and saw The Weather Channel's markings on it, meeting up with Emily Sutton and her team from KFOR, who also suffered damage to their vehicles from the tornado as well. They stopped to assist Bettes and his wounded team alongside Oklahoma Highway Patrol and other first responders, but had to leave to escape the back end of the storm. Bettes and his team were safely evacuated and received medical attention. By the following year, Bettes had made a full recovery in time for the next year's Great Tornado Hunt chase season.

The same tornado killed TWISTEX storm chasers Tim Samaras, his son Paul, and colleague Carl Young. Local resident Richard Charles Henderson was also killed in the same area as the TWISTEX crew after deciding to chase the storm.

Career timeline 19??—1998: WSYX/WTTE weekend meteorologist 1998–2003: WLOS chief meteorologist 2003–present: The Weather Channel 2003–present: Field reporter 2006–2009: Abrams & Bettes: Beyond the Forecast co-host 2009: Weather Center Live co-host 2009–2014: Wake Up With Al segment correspondent and fill-anchor 2009–2012: Your Weather Today co-host 2012–2014: Morning Rush co-host March 2014–January 23, 2015: America's Morning Headquarters co-host August 2015–2024: Weather Underground TV 2024-present: Weather Unfiltered 2007–present: NBC News 2007–present: The Today Show fill-in weather anchor 2007–present: Special reporter