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Jesse Risley

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Illinois, Quincy
As seen in: WGEM-TV (Quincy, IL)
TV weatherman, storm chaser, social studies teacher, adjunct professor @ WIU, MSEd., history aficionado, and full of wanderlust. Views are my own.

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Jesse Risley, who has been involved in storm chasing and storm spotting for over 20 years, reports live from the field during WGEM’s Breaking Weather coverage. He also anchors WGEM weathercasts when other members of the team take time off.

Jesse has been a certified National Weather Service SKYWARN severe weather spotter since 1999. He has presented at several professional workshops on the topics of tornado climatology, storm chasing and safety, and the March 2, 2012 tornado outbreak in Central…