The people behind ZoneWatch
The forecasters and engineers behind our severe-weather coverage, who write every guide and stand behind the science.
Sina Moghaddami
Co-founder & CEO, WeatherWise Innovations
Sina Moghaddami is the co-founder and CEO of WeatherWise Innovations, the U.S. company behind ZoneWatch, and a senior forecaster focused on severe weather. He has worked in meteorology since 2010, and today leads ZoneWatch’s mission to bring professional-grade, hyper-local severe-weather intelligence to everyday users across iOS, Android, and web.
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Xavier Santos
Co-founder & CTO, WeatherWise Innovations
Xavier Santos is the co-founder and CTO of WeatherWise Innovations, the U.S. company behind ZoneWatch, and the engineer and designer behind the product. He builds the high-resolution radar, forecast models, and real-time lightning, hail, and flood detection that power its alerts, along with the iOS, Android, and web apps, and has founded and shipped several other software and AI products.
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Jonathan Carr
Partner & Forecaster, Weather NJ
Jonathan Carr is a professional forecaster and the founder of Weather NJ, a forecasting partner of ZoneWatch. Since launching it in 2010, he has grown Weather NJ into one of the region’s most-followed independent weather outlets, with around 300,000 social followers and more than 12 million visitors to WeatherNJ.com. For over 16 years he has publicly forecast New Jersey’s hurricanes, nor’easters, snowstorms, and severe thunderstorms, building his reputation on major events like Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Irene, and the December 2009 blizzard. He pairs a computer-science degree from Stockton University with self-taught atmospheric physics and years of experience reading numerical weather models, and he’s known for translating complex forecast science into clear, actionable guidance.
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Midwest Weather
Partner & Forecaster
Midwest Weather is an independent, Iowa-based forecasting outlet and a forecasting partner of ZoneWatch, launched by Lane Ingle-Shaw in 2020. Forecasting from Linn County in eastern Iowa, he covers the storms that define the Corn Belt: blizzards and winter storms, severe weather and tornado outbreaks, heat waves, and flooding. Six years in, his forecasts reach an audience of more than 80,000 that stretches from Kansas and Nebraska east to Indiana and Michigan, with a focus on telling Midwest communities what a system will actually do where they live rather than what it might do somewhere in the region.
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