Big Apple beauties are being blown away by this hunky meteorologist. John Homenuk , the founder of New York Metro Weather , is winning an army of new fans who say he resembles Glen Powell’s sexy storm chaser in the new blockbuster, “Twisters.” Like Powell’s protagonist, Homenuk frequently follows fast-moving tornadoes, getting dangerously close to the eye of the storm.
But the 34-year-old Brooklyn native is not just jumping on a new trend: he’s been reporting the weather for close to two decades. Homenuk says he first became interested in the weather after watching the first “Twister” flick, released way back in the mid-1990s. “I have vivid memories of watching the original ‘Twister’ as a kid.
I couldn’t wait to grow up — to forecast the weather and to chase storms,’ he wrote in a recent Instagram post . “[The new standalone sequel] ‘Twisters’ has reminded me just how lucky I am,” he continued. “Wake up, 8-year-old John.
You are literally living your dream.” The genetically-blessed weatherman first created newyorkmetroweather.blogspot.
com back in high school, insistent that the most populated city in the US needed in-depth updates, come rain or shine. “There wasn’t a New York City weather blog at the time,” he told The Cut in a new profile, in which he is described as “hotter than a heatwave.” “My little high-school self realized that there was an opening for that, and I had a lot to express about the weather.
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