Houston’s Most Trusted Meteorologist Is Done With Texas Weather

Since moving to Houston in 2012, meteorologist Matt Lanza has seen it all. Freak windstorms. Record-setting freezes and droughts. Hurricane Harvey (2017), Tropical Storm Nicholas (2021), and Hurricane Beryl (2024). For the past eleven years, Lanza has shared his “hype-free” forecasts on Space City Weather, a bare-bones blog that he runs with fellow meteorologist Eric Berger. The website enjoyed a modest following until Harvey dumped some 27 trillion gallons of rain over southeast Texas and Louisiana, sending Houstonians scrambling for a reliable forecast. The site received around four million page views over the course of the disaster. Now it’s the first place many people turn when the forecast darkens.  Last week, Lanza announced that his family was moving to Connecticut, partly to be closer to his…

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