Alumni Fellow Award winner Forbes reflects on his time at Penn State
Image Courtesy of Dr. Greg Forbes
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Greg Forbes, a severe weather expert for The Weather Channel, found a familiar place when he returned to Penn State’s University Park campus to accept one of
14 Alumni Fellow Awards, the highest honor given by the Penn State Alumni Association.
It’s where Forbes spent his formative years as an undergraduate in the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science learning “almost everything he knows today” about weather forecasting and returned to become a tenured faculty member after earning his master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Chicago.
Forbes said he fell in love with forecasting when his seventh grade science teacher included it in the curriculum. He chose Penn State, he said, because it was “the best school in the nation for meteorology” and found his niche in severe weather forecasting soon after.