José Miguel Viñas, meteorologist and scientific communicator, delves into a reality with which humanity has always lived side-by-side: extreme weather events have occurred throughout history and have influenced life, culture, and how societies have interacted with their environment.
With a clear and accessible approach, José Miguel Viñas provides key insights to better understand these processes: what weather tells us and how the human factor is making them more intense and frequent, and to show how important prevention is and to boost our capacity for adaptation to one of the greatest environmental challenges of our time.
The event provides an interpretation of extreme weather events from a contemporary, constructive perspective, to better understand how drought, flooding, fires, and intense storms are all part of a climate scenario under transformation.
Born in Madrid (1969), he is physicist (majoring in Air Physics, Complutense University of Madrid) and works as meteorologist at Meteored España. He is a consultant for the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), having provided consulting services in Mexico. He has also acted as professor of Aeronautical Meteorology. In 2018, he participated in the 31st Spanish Antarctic Campaign and today is a member of the scientific project REBECA. Carried out in National Parks, the purpose of this project is to study extremophiles in cold-air pools.
He has an extensive background as communicator of atmospheric sciences, both in the news media and through his numerous publications, conferences, and website (www.divulgameteo.es). He began his professional career on Antena 3 Televisión, where he worked as meteorologist and weatherman on the station’s news show between 1999 and 2003. For 22 years, he has been collaborating with National Radio, alongside Pepa Fernández, on “No es un día cualquiera” and “De Pe a Pa.” He is also weatherman for “Agropopular,” the veteran agriculture news show on COPE, led by César Lumbreras. On television, he has collaborated with “Órbita Laika” and “La aventura del saber,” both on La 2 (TVE), where he addresses matters related to weather and climate.
To date, he has written twelve books on the topic, of which the following are of note: “Preguntas al aire” (Alianza Editorial, 2014), “Conocer la Meteorología” (Alianza, 2019); “El tiempo” (Shackleton Books, 2021), “Nuestro reto climático” (Alfabeto, 2022), and “Los cielos retratados” (Crítica, 2024). He is a founding member of ACOMET (Asociación de Comunicadores de Meteorología (Meteorology Communicators Association)) and current vice-chair of AME (Asociación Meteorológica Española (Spanish Meteorological Association)). His social media profile is @Divulgameteo, where he conducts part of his communication work.
With a journalism degree from Francisco de Vitoria University (UFV), he has worked on over 20 television programmes, specialising in the production and direction of reports and documentaries in 40 countries around the world.
He currently coordinates and hosts “La Aventura del Saber” on TVE’s La 2 and is collaborating host for the podcast and videopodcast “Despierta tu Curiosidad” by National Geographic.
“Kalipay” is his first documentary as director and producer. It was broadcast on Documentos TV (La 2) and received several awards and selections at national and international film festivals.
All funds raised from the Conference Series 2026 shall be allocated to the project Dual Pathology Day Centre, by the FOUNDATION PROYECTO HOMBRE MADRID.
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