He is a member of The Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang and a frequent contributor to WAMU radio, NPR, and the BBC, among other media outlets.
He became fascinated with weather after noticing—at a very young age—how anemometers would spin atop the roofs of buildings, seemingly without anything touching them, which led to an interest in wind and how it is measured.
[5] Cappucci attended Sturgis Charter School in Hyannis, Massachusetts, where he graduated in 2015 with the highest grade point average of his class.
Cappucci worked with Professor Eric J. Heller of the Department of Physics in developing a special concentration in atmospheric sciences.
[2] In July 2021, Cappucci joined the weather team at WTTG-TV, the Fox affiliate in Washington, D.C., as a weekend meteorologist.
[19] It is a memoir that follows Cappucci's journey from a self-proclaimed “weather nerd” growing up to his time at Harvard to embarking on a career in meteorology.