Tom Bird
Non Forest Service
National Weather Service Meteorologist
Tom is a Senior Forecaster at the National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Forecast Office in Santa Teresa, New Mexico where he has worked since 1994. With a life-long fascination in weather, Tom got his Bachelor of Science in Meteorology from Texas A&M in 1993. Tom is the Fire Weather Program Leader at NWS El Paso and serves as the liaison between the NWS and land management agencies across the region. Since 2000 Tom has served as an Incident Meteorologist. In that capacity he has traveled the country, from Florida to Washington, and even Australia, providing on-site weather support for large incidents and disasters, including hurricane Katrina, the space shuttle Columbia, and nearly 50 wildfires.
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