Dr. Paul Kocin

Paul Kocin, winter weather expert at The Weather Channel, literally wrote the book on winter weather in 1990. And then he turned around and wrote another – a more detailed chronicle on winter storms in the Northeast titled Northeast Snowstorms – Volume 1 – Overview and Volume 2 – The Cases. Kocin co-authored the new book, which was published in the fall of 2004, with Dr. Louis Uccellini, director of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction, part of the National Weather Service. The two meteorologists worked together at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the National Centers for Environmental Prediction from 1979 to 1999.

Earlier, the two co-authored wrote the book, Snowstorms Along the Northeastern Coast of the United States. Last February they partnered in developing the Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale (NESIS), a new 1-to-5 historic measure for the impact of snowstorms that have occurred. Their research, based on an analysis of 70 snowstorms from southern Virginia to New England, appeared in the February issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Since joining The Weather Channel six years ago, Kocin has had responsibility for predicting the path, intensity and duration of many important winter storms. He appears either at the top or bottom of the hour or during “Storm Update” ten minutes before the hour. During the development of severe winter weather, he provides continuous live reports and updates.

He is often contacted by the press for his expert comment on upcoming storms. He has appeared on ABC World News Tonight, The Today Show, CBS this Morning, CNN, NBC News with Brian Williams, ESPN, WXIA-Channel 11 in Atlanta, the BBC, Discovery Channel and National Geographic. Newspapers that have quoted Kocin include: USA Today, The New York Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Enquirer, New York Newsday and Orlando Sentinel.

Prior to joining TWC, Kocin worked as a meteorologist at NOAA’s Hydrometeorological Prediction Center at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction in Camp Springs, Maryland. Prior to that he was a research meteorologist in the Laboratory for Atmospheres at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.