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JUDGES
The Independent Celebrity Judging Panel will judge all the chili samples and award 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in both the Restaurant and Individual/Organization categories. The voting public will select the Peoples' Choice award winners and a panel of Rotarians will select the Best Presentation in both categories.

Josh Judge



Josh Judge joined the Storm Watch 9 team in early 2001. Analyzing our challenging and ever-changing weather patterns has become his passion. He loves telling viewers how the weather will affect their plans. Josh's weather career has spanned working for a weather company forecasting weather on radio stations up and down the East Coast, including in New York City and nationwide on AP Network News. He also spent several years doing weather on WHDH-TV in Boston, and WGME-TV in Portland, ME before going to WMUR full time.  Last fall he wrote a children's book called, "Weather Facts and Fun" which is sold in many New Hampshire bookstores. It is written for children who love science and weather, as well as for schools to use as a textbook, meeting New Hampshire educational requirements. Josh is currently hard at work on his next book, "Extreme New England Weather," which is due out this fall. He  has won several awards, and was voted "Best TV Weathercaster" in the New Hampshire Magazine readers poll in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.Josh and his wife, Donna, and son, Adam, and daughter Adelina (just adopted from Russia) live in southern New Hampshire. He enjoys spending time with his family, and his interests include playing tennis, skiing, boating, and aviation.


Mike Morin



Mike Morin is co-host of the state's most listened-to morning radio program, "New Hampshire in the Morning" on 95.7-WZID in Manchester. He's been a radio personality since 1971, a TV weather man, TV sports host and humor columnist for the Nashua Telegraph and NH Business Review for the past 5 years.

Mike's first brush with a chili cook-off didn't go so well. He entered his first contest in Toledo in 1981. The recipe he chose, "Buzzard's Breath Chile," called for 3 cloves of garlic. He used 3 BULBS of garlic instead. His pot of over-garlicked chili did not win, but every vampire within 500 miles of Toledo perished and Mike became an Ohio legend as a result of his heroic task. Today, Mike leaves chili to others, but bakes artisan breads from scratch. None of which contain garlic.

Nicole Barreira