Scott Withers

Scott Withers is a four-time national Emmy Award-winning meteorologist and journalist who has spent more than two decades on the front lines of America's worst weather — hurricanes, tornado outbreaks, wildfires, floods, and blizzards. He has reported for ABC News' Good Morning America and World News Tonight and served as National Climate Correspondent for Scripps News before joining CBS News Miami's NEXT Weather team. In September 2022, while covering Hurricane Ian's catastrophic landfall, the storm surge trapped him in a submerged vehicle and nearly took his life — the harrowing true story he tells in his survival memoir, Ian's Surge.

Through his company SWL Publishing, Scott writes books that turn real weather science into unforgettable stories. His multi-award-winning Cane The Weather Dog series — inspired by the dog he rescued from a Miami street — teaches K–4 readers how to stay safe in severe weather and earned him Story Monsters' New Author of the Year for Young Readers Fiction. Whether he's chasing storms or writing about them, Scott's mission is the same: help people understand the forces of nature before those forces arrive at their door.