Wayne Neely

Wayne Neely is an international speaker, best-selling author, lecturer on hurricanes, educator, and meteorologist. Traveling extensively throughout the region and the world, Wayne addresses critical issues affecting all aspects of hurricanes, especially Bahamian Hurricanes which is one of his central areas of expertise. Furthermore, he is a Bahamian Meteorologist/Forecaster working at the Bahamas Department of Meteorology for the past 29 years and has gained insightful knowledge and experience working with hurricanes. He has held two major exhibitions on all the major hurricanes to affect The Bahamas at the East Hill Post Office in Nassau, Bahamas. These exhibitions were highly attended by most of the government and private schools’ students throughout Nassau and the Family Islands. Many of them went on field trips to the East Hill Post Office just to view these exhibitions.

Over the years Wayne has written several articles in various local (The Nassau Tribune, The Bahama Journal, and The Nassau Guardian) and international newspapers (including, National Geographic, The Washington Post, and The New York Times) about weather events and hurricanes which have impacted both this country and the region. He has also written the annual Hurricane Supplement for The Nassau Guardian and Tribune on several occasions, including last year’s hurricane season and had several featured articles in the Bahamas Handbook. He has also appeared on various local and international television and radio shows to promote his previous books, including, The Weather Channel, Weather Brains, Hurricane City, Rotary Club, Nova/PBS, Bahamas at Sunrise, ZNS Television and Radio News, Bahamas Cable12 News, and Charles Carter’s Bahamians weekly radio show, Guardian Talk Radio, Island FM ‘The Morning Boil.’ He has contributed questions for both ‘Jeopardy’ and ‘Who Wants to be A Millionaire.’ He has also contributed to the research of and appeared in the Nova/PBS documentary called ‘Killer Hurricanes’ based on his bestselling book "The Great Hurricane of 1780."

Wayne Neely's Books-He has written 12 books on hurricanes, and they are: -

•The Great Bahamas Hurricane of 1929-Personal Recollections the Greatest Hurricane of the 20th Century (Media Publishing).

•The Major Hurricanes to Affect The Bahamas-The Story of Greatest Hurricanes to Affect The Bahamas (Author House Publishing).

•Rediscovering Hurricanes-The Major Hurricanes of the North Atlantic-Foreword by Herbert Saffir (Author House Publishing).

•The Great Bahamas Hurricane of 1866: The Story of One of the Greatest and Deadliest Hurricanes to Ever Impact the Bahamas-Foreword by Phil Klotzbach-PhD (Iuniverse Publishing).

•The Great Hurricane of 1780-The Story of the Greatest and Deadliest Hurricane of the North Atlantic-Foreword by Steve Lyons-PhD (Iuniverse Publishing).

•The Great Bahamian Hurricanes of 1899 and 1932: The Story of Two of the Greatest and Deadliest Hurricanes to Impact the Bahamas-Foreword by Professor William Gray (Iuniverse Publishing).

•The Great Bahamian Hurricanes Of 1926: The Story of Three of The Greatest Hurricanes to Ever Affect The Bahamas-Foreword by Bryan Norcross (Iuniverse Publishing).

•The Great Bahamas Hurricane of 1929: The Story of the Greatest and Deadliest Hurricane of the 20th Century-Foreword by Chris Landsea-PhD (Iuniverse Publishing).

•The Great Okeechobee Hurricane of 1928: The Story of the Second Deadliest Hurricane in American History and the Deadliest Hurricane in Bahamian History-Foreword by Kerry Emanuel-PhD (Iuniverse Publishing).

•The Greatest and Deadliest Hurricanes of the Caribbean and the Americas: The Stories Behind the Great Storms of the North Atlantic-Foreword by Michel Davison (Iuniverse Publishing).

•The Great Okeechobee Hurricane of 1928-Foreword by Kerry Emanuel-PhD (Uplink Publishing).

•The Greatest and Deadliest Hurricanes of the North Atlantic-Foreword by Michel Davison (Uplink Publishing).