Geoff Fox (born July 26, 1950)[1] is an American television broadcast meteorologist, with seven Emmy awards, and a career in the industry spanning four decades. For 27 years he worked at the television station WTNH in New Haven, Connecticut, where he started in 1984 and was senior meteorologist until 2011. L, he was with WTIC-TV in Hartford, Connecticut, where he was the weeknight 5:00 and 11:00pm meteorologist, reported science and technology stories for the 4:00pm newscast, and hosted a garden segment titled "Geoff's Garden".
In May of 1984, Fox started his meteorology career with the television station WTNH in New Haven, Connecticut. He was promoted to senior meteorologist.
In 1995, in addition to working for WTNH, he began hosting the program Inside Space on Syfy (then called the SciFi Channel).[5]
During his decades-long career, Fox participated in a variety of community fundraisers and events throughout the years in the state of Connecticut, including the March of Dimes, and participates in the annual walk to help find a cure for Alzheimer's disease as well as numerous other charities.
In early 2011, after 27 years at WTNH, Fox was told that his contract would not be renewed; he departed from the station.[6] His departure received national media attention due to the loyalty of WTNH viewers in addition to his long career with the station.[7]
In April 2011 he was hired by Fox affiliate WTIC-TV, where he forecasted for the 5:00pm and 11:00pm weather segments, as well as science reports weeknights at 4:00pm.[7] He was dismissed from the station after 19 months, for what the station identified as "inappropriate conduct". At Fox CT, "I thought I was doing the best work of my career, and how many people can say that deep into their career?," he said. "I didn't think I had peaked yet.[7][8]
Later, Fox developed an Internet-based company for designing and building websites.[citation needed]
In mid-2013, Fox and his wife, along with their pooch decided to bid farewell to New England (aka the land of ice and snow) and it's cold harsh winters by putting their 3,367-square-foot colonial home in Connecticut on the market to sell and going on a cross-country road trip to relocate to southern California to be closer to their daughter as well as other family, and because they were done dealing with winter Fox said.
In January 2015, he joined NBC affiliate KMIR-TV in Palm Springs, where he served as the weeknight meteorologist from early 2015 until September 2015.[9]
On August 19, 2015, Fox announced that he would be working as the on-air meteorologist for "News Channel Nebraska's first station in Norfolk", with more stations on the way. He forecasts for News Channel Nebraska from his home studio weather center.[citation needed]
In the summer of 2017, an agreement was made between the management of WTNH-TV and Fox for him to return briefly to the News8 airwaves for a seven-week fill-in period, to forecast the weeknight newscasts from his home studio in California. At the end of the temporary employment period, Fox made it clear to WTNH-TV management that he was very interested in a permanent full-time position. Management offered him a part-time position, but he declined. He made a statement saying that the offer "wasn't a good fit" but that he was thankful for the opportunity to return to the airwaves at WTNH and to show his gratitude for all the support from viewers throughout the years, as well as the personal support during his pancreatic cancer.[10] he station got a new GM and according to Fox the GM's biggest weather goal was to have someone “who would visit kindergartens.”
Fox is semi-retired and lives in southern California. His meteorology career has transitioned to becoming scaled down and fully remote, serving as Chief Meteorologist forecasting on-air for News Channel Nebraska, as well as newsy and other independent television markets and side projects from his home-built studio weather center. Fox said, "With the set-up I'm using in my home studio, I can do the weather for literally any place in the world and deliver it with so little lag that on-air chatting with the news anchors is seamless."[11]
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