Dan Robinson has been a storm chaser, photographer and cameraman for 34 years. He started photographing lightning in July of 1993 in southwestern Pennsylvania. As of today, his career has involved traveling around the country covering the most extreme weather on the planet including tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning, floods and winter storms.
Dan has been extensively published in newspapers, magazines, web articles and more, and has both supplied footage for and appeared in numerous television productions and newscasts. He has also been involved in the research community, providing material for published scientific journal papers on tornadoes and lightning. As of today, Dan has seen 194 tornadoes and covered 7 hurricanes & tropical storms, including Category 5 Hurricane Michael. Dan's video from Hurricane Rita in 2005 aired to one of cable television's largest audiences on record.
Dan's main areas of expertise are winter driving safety and the science and photography of lightning. Dan's web site icyroadsafety.com has been the leading source for winter driving safety and resources on the internet since 2008. He has covered the winter driving hazard with passion and dedication, going above and beyond to document winter storms and the hazard they present to the driving public. Tens of millions of people have watched his educational videos about winter driving safety, and his videos are used in driving instruction courses around the world. Dan is also leading and entirely funding the development of a new open-source meteorological parameter, called LCR, designed to classify the risk of drivers losing control of their vehicles from winter precipitation. The first working prototype of LCR was published in 2021, and Dan continues to direct and fund further development on the project.
For 30 years, his Lightning and Extreme Weather Educational Library has been online as an educational source for many millions of visitors. Dan's Youtube channel, online since 2012, has over 200,000 subscribers. Dan continues to cover extreme weather around the country, and updates the site frequently with new videos, photos and educational material.
Dan continues to cover extreme weather around the country, and updates the site frequently with new videos, photos and educational material.
