Kurt comes to WEAU 13 News by way of WISN 12 in Milwaukee, where he spent a year and a half behind the scenes as an intern under WISN Chief Meteorologist Mark Baden.
Born and raised in Madison, Kurt greatly enjoys forecasting for the ever changing and challenging weather conditions that he would say the State of Wisconsin is both blessed and cursed with. “Wisconsin has got to be the only place where it can be 60 degrees and sunny one day, then 30 degrees and snowing the very next!”
Kurt went to college at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he spent the first two years of his college life playing collegiate-level volleyball. He eventually left the volleyball team to focus solely on his schoolwork, and was awarded his B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences in May of 2004. After spending his senior year assisting Professor Vincent E. Larson with research on altocumulus clouds, Kurt made the decision to continue on with his research in the Graduate Program at UW-Milwaukee, earning his Master of Science Degree in Atmospheric Sciences in May of 2006. From his research, Kurt has been the co-author of two published papers, and was invited to present his Master’s Thesis at the American Meteorological Society’s 12th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation & Cloud Physics in July of 2006. Kurt also won the Graduate Division of the Collegiate National Weather Forecasting Competition for Tulsa, OK.
When he’s not telling you about weather, you can often find Kurt spending time with his friends and family, or out and about somewhere playing volleyball, basketball, golfing, or running.
Kurt would love to hear from you! You can e-mail him at kurt.kotenberg@weau.com
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