Tom Bedard, 29, and Raya Maday, 26, work together at AccuWeather in Wichita, and over Memorial Day weekend, they drove six hours to Colorado in the hopes of seeing a tornado in person.

Luckily they planned their trip perfectly because they were able to catch a huge tornado — and as a twister touched down in front of them, Tom got down on one knee to propose.

Tom and Raya met in 2016 at a meteorology conference and quickly bonded over their love of weather.

'We’re always talking about the weather and teaching each other, although Raya is unquestionably the meteorologist,' Tom toldDailyMail.com.

'There’s so much more to learn about the weather once you leave your Bachelor’s program and Raya is always trying to improve her forecasting capabilities, so occasionally she’s kind enough to put up me and give me a lesson or two.'

Tom knew for a year that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with Raya, he just wanted it to be in the most magical way he could think of.

'We’re both passionate about the weather, but had never seen a tornado before,' he said. 'And as it turned out, Raya was thinking of chasing storms at about the same time.'

'This was, oddly enough, an idea that we both had without letting the other know,' Tom said. 'I planned out the logistics of it with my close friend and fellow meteorologist Rich Putnam at the same that Raya was talking about it with Rich’s wife, Steph. They had tipped me off that it was a good idea and we got to planning.'

Tom decided it had to be done by a tornado, he found one that was set to hit Colorado but knew there was a slight chance they might be able to see it. The drive was going to be a long 6 hours but he was able to convince Raya to take the trip with him.

'The odds of not seeing a tornado that day were fairly high, so we were all ready for another weekend or two hunting for one,' Tom said.

'I was already anxious about taking us all the way to southeast Colorado on a slight-risk day and coming back without putting a ring on her finger ... I thought "Oh God, no, we're going to do all this travel for nothing,"' he told AccuWeather.

But as luck and Mother Nature would have it, they found a twister, and looked on as it touched down in the distance. That's when Tom decided to get down on his knee and propose, what a day the both will never forget!

SOURCE: DAILY MAIL

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