Thomas E. Downs

Thomas Downs has been with WeatherBell since January 2014, ensuring that all of the commercial forecasts are issued in a timely manner. He also provides forecasting expertise and support to a wide variety of commercial level clients and occasionally contributes to WeatherBell Premium through blogs and videos.

In his capacity as Director of Forensic Meteorology, Mr. Downs continues to serve the legal and insurance communities, which he previously did for over 10 years while at Expert Weather Investigations and Weather 2000, Inc. He has provided hundreds of expert reports for a broad spectrum of legal and insurance cases in various state and federal jurisdictions and has been cited in multiple appellate court decisions. Mr. Downs has been deposed and has appeared in court to testify as an expert in analyzing official weather records. He has been interviewed by various media as a weather expert, and has assisted in the production of various documentaries.

Tom earned a B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences from Cornell University and is a member of the American Meteorological Society.