Dr. Lou McNally is an Adjunct Professor in the Distance Education Unit of Unity Environmental University. He holds Associate’s degrees from Belknap College and Lyndon State College. His BA is from Lyndon State (now Vermont State University). He received the MS in Quaternary Studies and holds one of the first Interdisciplinary Ph.D.s from the University of Maine (History and Global Climate Change), and is affiliated with the Climate Change Institute as a Research Assistant Professor. He has taught courses in meteorology, climatology, aviation weather, severe weather, climate change, and sustainability. His research centered on the reconstruction of daily weather in the year 1785 with documentary evidence using forensic synoptic analysis. Dr. McNally has been published in Weather (Royal Meteorological Society), History of Meteorology (ICHM), and Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, and has presented research for the AAG, AGU, AMS, NWA, and ICHM in the USA, England, France, and China. He is often called to speak on weather and the changing climate.
As a professional broadcast meteorologist, he has worked in radio throughout the northeast, and in television in Portland, Maine, Des Moines, Iowa, Buffalo, NY, Providence, RI, and Boston, and can be heard mornings with the weather forecast on Maine Public Radio. He was inducted into the Maine Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2023. Lou is also an accomplished musician, singer, and songwriter, playing 12-string guitar as a single act, and bass guitar with local bands.