What are your hopes and dreams for the profession of weather? The Twins are the only team in MLB that have a meteorologist at the park for every home game. I am the game-day Meteorologist for the Minnesota Twins. The two interests peaked together when they coordinated a tour of a National Weather Service office and a TV station weather center when I was 10. My intrigue in broadcasting started when my Grandpa gave me a small transistor radio when I was 4. My Grandma made hundreds of copies of maps for me to draw fronts on when I was young. Watching sports too, especially Twins baseball and UND Fighting Sioux hockey.īesides your parents, who has influenced you the most in your life? During downtime, I love playing with our Yorkies, Eddie and Mollie, and our kitty Ellie. Outside of weather, what are your hobbies and interests? The snow was drifted over our windows of our house and to the top of the kitchen door. Our groomsman wanted to chase storms! The wind was strong enough to uproot trees in town and rip shingles off the roof of the church. What is your most memorable weather experience? I grew up in rural Central Minnesota where all four seasons are well represented, often to the extreme! That curiosity to understand the changes, and intrigue to try and figure out why the weather behaved as it did, drove me to an interest in Meteorology. What inspired you to become a meteorologist? He is also a game-day Meteorologist for the Minnesota Twins. His first TV Meteorology job was in Wausau, WI, followed by stops in Grand Rapids, MI, Fort Myers, FL, Tampa, FL, Cedar Rapids, IA and then across the country on WeatherNation. During high school and college, Mace first worked at a number of radio stations which helped pay tuition bills and get him ready for a career in television. His 30 years in broadcasting have taken him all across the Midwest and in the South. Mace was born and raised in Minnesota, where his intrigue for weather and broadcasting grew at a young age.
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