Peter Veals is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Utah. His research has included thunderstorms in the tropics, improving weather radar on commercial airliners, lake-effect snow in the Great Lakes, sea-effect snow in Japan, orographic snowfall in the Wasatch, cloud seeding, and snowmaking. He can often be found coding up new forecasting tools on weather.utah.edu, fixing cranky instruments in the middle of a blizzard, or out exploring the many landscapes of Utah.