Alumni Spotlights

Matt Lanza

(Originally posted September 2022)

Matt Lanza is the lead meteorologist at Cheniere Energy, Inc. in Houston, TX, where he focuses on how weather impacts operations at Cheniere's liquefied natural gas export terminals on the Gulf Coast, as well as how weather impacts U.S. and global natural gas demand. Additionally, Matt serves as managing editor and forecaster for Space City Weather, a Houston-based weather blog that gained prominence during Hurricane Harvey and serves tens of thousands of Gulf Coast residents through hurricanes, floods, freezes, and other extreme Texas weather. Matt has over 15 years of experience forecasting weather, and prior to joining Cheniere, he was a meteorologist for Deutsche Bank's energy trading group, as well as at Southern California Edison in Los Angeles. Matt began his career as a broadcast meteorologist, working in the Syracuse and Utica, NY television markets. He graduated from Rutgers University with a Bachelor's of Science in Meteorology. Matt's writing has also appeared at FiveThirtyEight, and he has been interviewed and quoted in dozens of publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. Matt tries to balance all this as a husband and father of two energetic young boys.