Nick Gilmore
Radio IQ Senior Producer/MeteorologistNick Gilmore is part of Radio IQ’s award-winning newsroom, serving as the station’s senior producer and meteorologist. He regularly reports and anchors the station’s noon newscast, and created and produces the station's CommonWx weather and climate newsletter. Nick joined Radio IQ in 2016. A graduate of Virginia Tech with a degree in meteorology, Nick is from the New River Valley and still calls the area home.
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For the second edition of this newsletter in a row, we’re going to be talking about climate change. Obviously, it’s a real problem. But how can scientists, meteorologists and climatologists all relay that message in a way that the general public and decision makers understand?That was the topic of discussion for Marshall Shepherd at Virginia Tech’s Fralin Biomedical Research Center in Roanoke. -
This may sound obvious – but climate change is a very real problem.Data continuously shows that Earth’s climate has been warming for some time and it looks as if that trend will only continue in the years and decades to come.That was one of the key messages from a symposium held by the Virginia Climate Center at George Mason University this month. It was presented to broadcast weather professionals across the state.
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Figures from the Virginia Department of Education show that students underperformed on math and reading assessments last school year.
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The slew of indictments against former President Donald Trump has demanded a lot of media attention lately. And, new polling from Roanoke College shows those criminal charges are on the minds of Virginia voters.
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After months of debate, a bipartisan deal between the House and Senate has been struck.
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Like other areas across the country and Virginia – COVID-19 activity has been trending upward in the Roanoke region in recent weeks.
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If Roanoke pulls it off, the park would be the first of its kind in Virginia.
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We’re right, smack-dab in the middle of the Atlantic hurricane season – which runs through November 1st. But the peak of the season typically occurs between August and September.So far in this still pretty young season, there have been four named storms, with only minimal impacts to the continental U.S.
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Representatives from the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, the National Weather Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency were in Roanoke Thursday to talk about hurricane preparedness.
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Virginia’s legislative watchdog agency is out with a new, scathing report on the way the state funds its public, K-12 schools.
