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Two Storms to Bring Impactful Winter Weather to the Central and Eastern U.S.

A winter storm will bring heavy snow and ice to the Ohio Valley into the Mid-Atlantic Tuesday into Wednesday. Significant ice is forecast for the Central Appalachians. Heavy snow is likely through the I-95 corridor from Virginia to Pennsylvania. Another winter storm is slated to bring heavy snow and ice to the Central Plains later Tuesday, and spread into the Midwest and Great Lakes Wednesday. Read More >

Brian Gross



Brian Gross
Director, Environmental Modeling Center
National Weather Service (NWS)

Brian Gross is the Director of the Environmental Modeling Center at the National Weather Service (read the full announcement). Previously, he was the Deputy Director of NOAA's High Performance Computing and Communications office in NOAA’s Office of the Chief Information Officer. Prior to that, Dr. Gross was the Deputy Director of NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory for 13 years. He has also served as head of GFDL’s software development group and as a research scientist there, modeling weather and climate with an emphasis on storm tracks. Before joining GFDL, Brian earned a doctorate in atmospheric science from the University of Colorado and was a Research Associate at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, then a Visiting Scientist in Princeton University’s Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. 

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