- Hurricane Hal has lived more than 30 years in cold/ snowy places, from Pennsylvania and Upstate NY to Alaska and Colorado. He has documented Big Snow in Alaska, Sierra Nevada Mountains and Great Lakes.
- He has been a winter sports athlete, competing at the national level in long-distance snowshoe racing. His coldest snowshoe race ran at a temperature of -39F (71 degrees below freezing), the morning after his coldest bike ride at -51F (83 degrees below freezing).
- He focuses winter forecasts on impacts, ranging from snow/ ice accumulations to the risk of freezing temperatures in sub-tropical climates (I-10 corridor along U.S. Gulf Coast).
