Bryan Norcross

Bryan Norcross grew up on the east coast of Central Florida while his and his friends’ fathers were working to put men on the moon. He was a student of science and broadcasting.

Bryan started his on-air career as a radio announcer in 1968. After studying math, physics, and broadcasting at Florida State University, his First-Class broadcasting license led to a job as an engineer at the ABC station in Atlanta. That evolved into positions in production management, directing and producing news, and eventually running a news department at the ABC affiliate in Louisville, Kentucky.

A career change led him back to Florida State where the Meteorology and Communications schools combined to create a special Broadcast Meteorology Master’s Degree for Bryan. This evolved into a life-long study of and interest in weather and emergency communications.

CNN was starting up just as Bryan graduated, and he became the first weekend weathercaster on that network in 1980. After weather jobs in San Francisco and Atlanta, plus some news consulting, he landed in Miami in 1983 at WPLG, the ABC affiliate.

He broadcast the weather in Miami for 25 years on WPLG, WTVJ, and WFOR. At WFOR, in addition to holding the title of Director of Meteorology, he anchored the 5:30 p.m. news from 1996 to 1999.

Bryan became nationally known as the man who “talked South Florida through” Hurricane Andrew in 1992, which lead to his work on NBC and as the CBS News Hurricane Analyst from 1996 to 2008.

Bryan joined The Weather Channel as Senior Hurricane Specialist in 2010. A New York Times profile after Hurricane Sandy quoted a Twitter post that described Bryan as “the most trusted hurricane human on the planet.”

These days, Bryan is the Hurricane Specialist for Fox Weather, leading the hurricane coverage on the channel and digital properties.

Bryan is a long-time resident of Miami Beach.