Dr. Steve Lyons
Tropical Weather Expert - The Weather Channel
A native of San Diego, Steve grew up in southern California. He attended the University of Hawaii on a track scholarship, where he ran the 800 meters. Between track meets and surfing sessions, Steve obtained a B.S., and a M.S., culminating in a Ph.D. in Meteorology in 1981.
Steve's expertise is in Tropical and Marine Meteorology. He has participated in more than 50 national and international conferences and provided World Meteorological Organization training courses in marine meteorology, tropical meteorology and ocean wave forecasting. Each spring Steve is a guest speaker at many hurricane preparedness conferences from Texas to New York.
Prior to joining The Weather Channel in April 1998, Steve managed the Tropical Analysis and Forecast Branch of the Tropical Prediction Center, National Hurricane Center.
He has worked directly for private weather companies and traveled around the world forecasting weather in various tropical locales. Steve has also been a private consultant forecasting ocean waves for numerous surfing beaches. Familiar with on-camera assignments, Steve worked on-air for a station in Ventura County, California.
Among his many interesting jobs, Steve has been a research scientist for the U.S. Navy, for the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University, and for the University of California at Los Angeles. He has also been a professor of meteorology at Texas A&M University, where he is still an adjunct faculty member, and at the University of Hawaii. Steve also worked for the National Weather Service South Region Scientific Services Division, where he trained NWS meteorologists. Steve routinely reviews scientific papers related to tropical and marine weather submitted for publication in American Meteorological Society journals.
Steve has published more than 20 papers in scientific journals, and written more than 40 technical reports and articles for the National Weather Service and the Navy.
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