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Presenting the weather forecast in the studio, February 2019.

I'm a meteorologist in central California with over 25 years of experience as a broadcast meteorologist. After 15 years as a meteorologist in northern California, my son and I recently moved from Chico to Fresno. This website has links and information from all over California, but especially northern California. I will be adding content from other parts of the Golden State soon.

After I graduated from U.C. Davis with a degree in Atmospheric Science, my first job as a broadcast meteorologist was in Grand Junction, CO (before it burned down in 2008.) My second TV job brought me to the North State for the first time in 1995, as the morning meteorologist for KRCR-TV in Redding. I left for Bakersfield in 1998, but came back up north to Chico in 2000 to be the evening meteorologist at KNVN (before they merged with KHSL). After the merger, I went to Anchorage, AK in 2003 to work at KTVA (which doesn't exist anymore!). I returned to Chico in 2007, to be the evening meteorologist at Action News Now until 2019. You can move around a lot in small market television! I took a break from TV to try real estate for a couple of years, but I've recently returned to TV as the evening meteorologist at KMPH Fox 26 in Fresno, CA.

I've earned both the Certified Broadcast Meteorologist designation from the American Meteorological Society and the Seal of Approval from the National Weather Association.

I had the chance to go live on Good Morning America with Spencer Christian in May of 1998, when we did a live shot for America at the Redding Rodeo Pancake Breakfast, and I was also interviewed by and appeared on The Weather Channel for their documentary about the rescue of the Dominguez family in December of 2007, after they became lost in the deep snow of the Sierra Nevada in Butte County, while hunting for a Christmas tree near Inskip.

I worked for Butte County in their Camp Fire Investigation in 2020, and testified to the Butte County Grand Jury about the drought, the very dry fuels, the Jarbo Gap winds that were gusting over 50 mph on the morning the Camp Fire started, and how those winds rapidly pushed the Camp Fire into Paradise.

I also worked for Shasta County in their Zogg Fire Investigation in 2021, giving them details on weather conditions near the fire's ignition point shortly before and during the deadly 2020 Zogg Fire.

In addition to updating this website regularly, I also still do occasional weather segments on America's First News with Matt Ray.

I'll try to post frequent updates here when the weather in central California is active, and fewer updates when everything is quiet. If you have a suggestion to improve this website, let me know. Thanks for stopping by!

About Chico Charlie

Charlie was my little terrier that I used to bring to work every day when he was older. He slept on his blanket most of the time, but we did get some work out of him: He would occasionally sit at the desk with me for the closing shot, for many years he helped Lee Carrell make a Super Bowl forecast, and instead of a Groundhog Day report, he was the dog in my Grounddog Day report!

Charlie was born on July 10th, 2002 in Anchorage, Alaska. We adopted him in Anchorage in June of 2003, when he was 11 months old. He lived in Anchorage until he was 5; he and I went on many walks in the ice and snow near our house, sometimes as the Northern Lights danced above us. The coldest temperature I've ever been in was -25° in January 2004. Ol' Charlie still wanted his morning walk, so we did... but it was quick! He rarely wanted a short walk, but we kept it real quick that morning.

The forest of Alaska is a bit different than California: the trees aren't as tall (at least, not in Anchorage they aren't), but they're VERY tightly packed together, which makes it difficult to see very far in them. Once, while on a walk in Earthquake Park in Anchorage, Charlie stirred up major trouble. He was on a long, retractable leash, and had ventured into the thick forest. I was holding the leash on the path, when all of a sudden he came bursting out, and right behind him was a Moose! We all ran like mad for a bit until the Moose lost interest, but that was a bit of a white knuckle moment: Moose can be aggressive! I'd like to think Charlie learned a lesson there, but I'm not sure if he did.

When we moved back to California in June, 2007, I drove all of our stuff in a U-Haul down the Alaska Highway. When I was almost done packing, Charlie loaded himself up in the U-Haul about an hour early, and wouldn't budge. He saw the house being emptied, and didn't want to get left behind! He was very curious on the trip down, watching the road with me more than sleeping. The only day we saw bears (we saw 8 one day in British Columbia), he had to bark at some of them, of course.

He started coming to the TV station with me in 2011, when he was 9. I brought him every day for 7 years, and he usually slept on his blanket between the weather center and the green wall, except when I borrowed him to be on TV. He passed away in September, 2018, when he was 16 years old. Rest In Peace, little buddy.

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