""Anything that happens with the weather, my antennas go up. I remember when I was a little boy in Hialeah. I used to lay on the ground in my back yard and watch the afternoon thundershowers form.""
""I don't know what it is about weather, but I've been fascinated by it for as long as I can remember,""
""spent half of his career forecasting hurricanes and severe thunderstorms in South Florida""
Roland Steadham, 67, served as chief meteorologist at CBS 2 in Boise and died with Dallin Laufenberg in a small plane crash in Idaho. He worked at WTVJ, WPLG, and WSVN in South Florida and later in Salt Lake City. He served as an NBC Network hurricane specialist for the southeastern U.S. and appeared on MSNBC and the "Today" show. A Cuban-American raised in Hialeah, he became the first Cuban-American anchor on an English-language station in that market. He studied at Brigham Young University and the University of Utah, completed the Mississippi State Meteorology Program, earned AMS and NWA Seals, and was an experienced pilot and skydiver.
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