John Gerard
NBC 6 Meteorologist
Updated 3:01 PM EDT, Wed, Jul 29, 2009
John has the most experience of any local TV meteorologist in South Florida. He arrived in 1992 just after Hurricane Andrew and has since calmly led viewers through Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma. He was on the air LIVE as the 1997 Miami tornado was forming and then striking Miami and Miami Beach. His efforts that day have been documented in a special produced by the Discovery Channel, which still airs several times a year worldwide.
John's career track is unique and interesting. After studying meteorology at Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York and State University of New York in Oswego, New York, he actually began his forecasting career in private industry where he spent six years predicting daily and hourly weather conditions for utility companies, airports, municipalities, movie studios, radio stations, golf courses and even baseball teams. John has been called upon frequently to offer expert testimony in weather-related legal cases.
Despite the demands of a TV meteorologist, John has found time to work as a Public Address Announcer for a professional hockey team, has coached youth soccer, and is currently a Lecturer at the University of Miami, where he teaches Broadcast Meteorology, a curriculum he designed himself to teach students how to make presentations user-friendly and easily understood. He enjoys hosting charity events and visiting area schools where he talks to youngsters about the science of weather and the importance of "just saying no" to drugs.
John holds the distinguished Broadcasting Seal of Approval from the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the National Weather Association (NWA). He loves sports, going to the gym, eating out, going to church, and cutting his own grass. "Anything that'll get me outdoors" he says!
Email John: John.Gerard@nbcuni.com
First Published: Mar 3, 2009 5:21 PM EDT
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