Anthony “Andy” Johnson, Principal of Johnson Forensic Meteorological Consulting, is an accomplished board-certified meteorologist whose professional career has spanned over 41 years. After 34 years of on-air weather broadcasting with WTVT-TV in Tampa, FL, he took early retirement from the television industry but continued the consulting work that he had begun at WTVT. Mr. Johnson formed his own consulting business in 2013 to focus on the forensic aspects of meteorology.
American Meteorological Society Television Seal of Approval #265
• Requires a combination of education and work experience and a passing grade given by a 5-member board regarding a series of on-air weathercasts assessing technical competence, informational value, explanatory value, and communication skills
American Meteorological Society Certified Broadcast Meteorologist #8
• Requires a degree in meteorology from an accredited college/university, the ability to pass a written examination, and the on-air presentation reviewed to assess technical competence, informational value, explanatory value, and communication skills
• Requires continuing education
American Meteorological Society Certified Consulting Meteorologist #433
• Awarded for “high standards of technical competence, character and experience”
• Requires oral and written examinations, a thesis and continuing education
I am one of only a few meteorologists that possess both a CBM and CCM certification
Basic Studies Honors Program – Florida State University, 1975.
Graduated cum laude – Florida State University, 1979.
Sustaining member of Phi Beta Kappa, Arts & Sciences Honor fraternity, 1979-present.
Inducted to Chi Epsilon Pi, meteorological honor fraternity, 1979.
Inducted to Pi Mu Epsilon, mathematics honor fraternity, 1978.
Biographee in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 1992-present.
Biographee in Who’s Who in the World, 1993-present.
Biographee in Who’s Who in America, 1998-present.
Biographee in Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, 1997-present.
January 29, 2013 declared “Andy Johnson Day” in Tampa by Mayor Bob Buckhorn and also in Hillsborough County by the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners.
Professional Affiliations and Offices Held
American Meteorological Society, National Chapter, Boston, MA
• Full professional member 1979-present
West Central Florida Chapter of the American Meteorological Society
• Member 1979-present
• Secretary 1983-1984
• Vice-President 1984-1985
• President 1989-1991 & 1994-2010 (elected annually)
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