About Long Range Weather and Harris-Mann Climatology
Climatologist Cliff Harris was been often rated as one of the top ten climatologists in the world for over 4 decades. Cliff Harris' long-range weather forecasts were used by high-ranking government officials and quoted in
USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Wall Street Digest, Farm Journal, Top Producer, Successful Farming, Futures Magazine, The Boston Globe and many other publications. During his career, he provided weekly local and national radio weather broadcasts to various stations throughout the country, including a daily weather and commodity forecasting service for DTN. Cliff accurately predicted the current prolonged cycle of global weather "extremes" in 1966.
Since age 11, he has compiled over 100 weather scrapbooks that detail major events throughout the U.S. and the world on a daily basis. Cliff operates a weather station in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho and wrote a popular weekly column called 'Gems' for the Coeur d'Alene Press. He has been quoted in CNN and
"Not by FIRE, but by ICE" by Robert W. Felix. Cliff and his wife Sharon have been married for over 60 years and have 2 children, 3 grandchildren and a toy poodle.
Meteorologist Randy Mann has been recognized as a meteorologist since 1988. He attended the University of California, Davis, San Francisco State University and graduated from California State University, Sacramento with a degree on Geography. Randy is currently studying climate change and other weather-related courses for a Masters of Geography degree at the University of Melbourne in Australia.
For over 30 years, Randy provided much of the daily weather information, computer graphics and maintenance for subscribers of DTN, Farm Dayta and the Internet. Randy has also had an extensive background in television and radio weather production, and has provided on-air television and radio weather forecasts in Tacoma, Washington, Sacramento, California, Burlington, Vermont, Plattsburgh, New York and Spokane, Washington. He is currently the Chief Meteorologist for the Coeur d'Alene Press weather page and writes a weekly weather column for the Coeur d'Alene Press. Randy has also provided weather columns for the
Spokesman review in the early 2000s. He taught Physical Geography at North Idaho College in Coeur d'Alene for 7 years plus has been a casual instructor for science courses at the University of Melbourne.
Since the late 1990s, Randy has also designed weather-related publications that include two North Idaho weather calendars, the International Traveler's Weather Guide, Tom Loffman's Sacramento Weather Guide, the Vermont Town and Weather Almanac (7 Editions), the award-winning 1997 Frederick County Weather Almanac and the 1998, 1999, Year 2000 and the 2001 Frederick County Weather Almanacs. He was married to his late wife, Sally, for over 25 years.
