This website is dedicated to covering Houston weather news and forecasting with accuracy and without hype. Space City Weather was founded in October, 2015, to provide residents and business owners with quality forecasts to make informed decisions about protecting their families, property, and businesses.
Our site has grown dramatically since 2015, and now regularly has 5 million visitors annually. In June 2021 we debuted an app, available for Apple and Android devices. Space City Weather has been sponsored exclusively by Reliant Energy since the summer of 2017, and they have been a great partner.
Here’s a bit more about the editors of the website:
ERIC BERGER, Editor: A certified meteorologist, Eric has written about weather in the Houston area for two decades. You may have seen his hurricane coverage in the Houston Chronicle back in the day as Eric “SciGuy” Berger, and now he brings that same kind of no-nonsense coverage of weather in and around Houston to Space City Weather. He is also the author of the book Liftoff, about the rise of SpaceX; and a sequel, Reentry, on the Falcon 9 and Dragon era of the spaceflight company.
MATT LANZA, Managing Editor: Matt is a forecast meteorologist in Houston’s energy sector, and he previously worked as a broadcast meteorologist in Upstate New York. Generally, he contributes forecasts on Fridays, and writes about Houston’s weather history for Space City Weather. He and Eric also have co-founded an Atlantic hurricane website, The Eyewall, which brings no-hype hurricane coverage to all readers near the Atlantic basin. Matt is passionate about sharing accurate forecasting with all audiences.
DWIGHT SILVERMAN, Assistant to the Regional Manager: A longtime newspaper industry veteran and award-winning tech journalist, Dwight has been advising Eric and Matt almost since the beginning of Space City Weather. He formally joined the site in 2024. Beyond his tongue-in-cheek title, Dwight has helped Space City Weather craft a social media strategy in order to meet readers where they are, and managed our app alongside developer Hussain Abbasi. Dwight also monitors feedback to Space City Weather to ensure we’re responsive to the needs and concerns of our readers.
Space City Weather alumnus
MARIA SOTOLONGO, Spanish-language editor: Maria is a certified meteorologist who has worked for various television channels such as Telemundo, NBC, Fox, and CW39. For three years she served as lead editor for the Spanish-language version of Space City Weather, Tiempo Ciudad Espacial. Maria also contributed to the English language site and its social media channels.
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