Christopher C. Burt

Chrstopher C. Burt is the author of "Extreme Weather; A Guide and Record Book" and the weather historian for wunderground.com. He blogs weekly for this web site: http://www.wunderground.com/blog/#met

Chris worked with Khalid El Fadli, the director of the Libyan National Meteorological Center (LNMC) and the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to overturn the long-held (for 90 years) planetary heat record which was announced in September 2012. Chris is featured in a documentary about this investigation titled 'Dead Heat: Overturning the World Heat Record.'

Chris studied meteorology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

He currently resides in Oakland, California.