Alabama’s Celebrity Weatherman Pleads for the National Weather Service

Inside Climate News · By Dennis Pillion · last updated March 18, 2025 – 7:52 AM

Meteorologist James Spann appeals to his 1.3 million Facebook followers to support the agency, threatened by Trump cuts, that produces the data he relies upon for his forecasts.

By Dennis Pillion

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—At around 11 p.m. Saturday night, James Spann was winding down his ninth hour of live news coverage of a deadly storm system that spawned 16 suspected tornadoes across central Alabama.

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