Todd Gross
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Todd Gross is a national meteorologist. He once worked in Boston as a weather reader at WHDH-TV in Boston, Massachusetts, where his employment ran from 1984 through 2005. Todd is still an active on-air television meteorologist, and he can be heard on numerous radio stations throughout Southeastern New England.
Gross started at WNEV-TV (the present day WHDH-TV) in 1984 as a weekend meteorologist and science reporter. In that same year, he broadened and formalized the use of weather spotters on the air and introduced the "sunburn index" (UV index) to the Boston area. In 1988, Gross was promoted to meteorologist for WNEV-TV's morning and weekday noon newscasts. He also appeared on the children's show Ready to Go. In 1994, Gross brought weather to the Internet through webpages, such as WeatherMan.com Internet Chat and Weather-watcher networks.
In August 2002, Gross was promoted to chief meterologist at WHDH, replacing veteran Harvey Leonard who transferred over to WCVB-TV. In 2005 he was replaced by Pete Bouchard as the 7 NEWS Chief Meteorologist.
Before his start at WNEV/WHDH-TV, Gross worked for two years as chief meteorologist for the 6 and 11 PM weekday newscasts at WNYT-TV in Albany, New York. Afterwards, he worked briefly as a meteorologist for the Satellite News Channel in Stamford, Connecticut.
Gross is known in the Boston-area for his on-air use of actual forecasting graphics, including Isobars. He also uses and works into his weathercasts astronomic terminology, such as the term "Indian Moon."
In early December of 2005, Todd was abruptly let go from WHDH, as they wanted to go in a "Different direction."
In July 2006, Gross began working as a fill in meteorologist at WWLP-TV/DT, the NBC affiliate in Springfield, MA, later becoming the weekend meteorologist for a short period of time.
Currently, Gross is working for KTVX ABC4 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
[edit] Other works
Gross started the "Weather Spotter Network" program at WHDH-TV, a program which he has carried over to and expanded in his own independent forecast and education website. He is also an avid astronomer who is a published astro-photographer.
He was also the founder and chief meteorologist for the nationwide weather service, Compu-Weather, in New York City.
[edit] Trivia
Gross is best known in the Boston area for his coverage during the perfect storm in 1991. He was played by actor Christopher McDonald in the later film.
