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Ron Brackett

Ron Brackett

R​on Brackett is an engagement editor at weather.com. He is based out of South Carolina. Hometown Inman, South Carolina Educational Background B.A. in... Read full biography

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With gusts up to 50 mph, plane forced to abort landing

Calgary and other parts of southern Alberta, Canada, were under a wind warning Sunday, with gusts up to 50 mph. At Calgary International Airport, that led to some pretty hairy landings. At least one plane was forced to abort its landing and go around for another try.

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PHOTOS: Scenes of the damage left by Hurricane Isaias

The Category 2 hurricane, which came ashore Friday, left a wide swath of deadly destruction.

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Isaias churns waves along boarded-up Pensacola Beach

Rain had already started to fall and Hurricane Isaias was creating pounding surf along Florida’s Pensacola Beach on Friday, but that didn’t keep everyone away from the sand. Escambia County had issued a mandatory evacuation order for zones that included Pensacola Beach, Perdido Key, Innerarity Point and other low-lying areas. Hurricane Isaias, expected to make landfall Friday night, was forecast to push in a storm surge of up to 9 feet.

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Over 200 rescued as flood hits RV campground

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UN warns of 'supersized' El Niño in unprecedented forecast

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About Ron

R​on Brackett is an engagement editor at weather.com. He is based out of South Carolina.

Hometown

Inman, South Carolina

Educational Background

B.A. in Journalism from the University of South Carolina with honors from South Carolina College

What I Do

Engagement Editor

How I Got To The Weather Company

I graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1985 with a degree in Journalism and honors from South Carolina College. I was a writer and editor for the campus newspaper, The Gamecock, and the J-School weekly, The Carolina Reporter. I interned in the summer of 1984 with the Stars & Stripes in Darmstadt, West Germany. I was also part of several teams that worked on the Tampa Bay Times’s Pulitzer Prize-winning projects.

I joined the digital team in March 2023. Before that, I worked as a freelance writer and editor for the company since 2018.

F​avorite Weather Areas

H​urricanes

F​avorite Core Weather Memory

I grew up in Inman, South Carolina, and gained an appreciation for the power of weather when a tornado wiped out parts of a neighboring town when I was a child.