Tom explains the weather to an audience of more than 50 million people, eight seconds at a time. Off camera the same skill goes further. He can read a forecast for what it means to your week, and he can stand in front of a room and make the atmosphere make sense.
Two ways to put that to work.
Commercial weather consulting.
If a day of weather can cost you a day of work, it can cost you a contract. Tom works with people whose schedule lives under the sky:
- Construction. Pours, roofing, crane days, and the week a storm makes you choose between them.
- Agriculture. Planting and harvest windows, frost risk, the dry stretch you are counting on.
- Transportation. Fleet routing, freight timing, and the storms that close a corridor before the forecast says so.
What you get is a plain read on the forecast for your site and your dates, with the confidence level said out loud. When to move, when to hold, and what he would do in your position. When the models disagree, you have someone to call who can tell you why.
A single read on one critical date works. So does an arrangement that runs through a season. Tell him what you do and where, and he comes back with what the weather looks like for that work.
Public speaking.
Tom keeps rooms full of strangers watching a weather map, which is a harder trick in person than it sounds. He speaks to:
- Weather enthusiast associations and clubs. The people who already check the models, and want to argue about them with someone who does too.
- Schools. From the second graders who are the weather kid in class (he was one) through high school science.
- Colleges and lecture halls. Meteorology and earth science programs, and general audiences who want the big events explained.
Talks run from twenty minutes to a full session with questions. He brings his own maps, drawn live with the same tool he gives away for free, so the room watches a forecast get built rather than a slide deck get read.
Some of what he covers: how a forecast is made and why it misses, what an El Nino winter actually does to the Northeast, the science behind a heat dome or a nor'easter, and how a kid from Philadelphia built one of the largest weather audiences on the internet with nothing spent on promotion.
What it costs.
Rates depend on the scope: one date or a whole season, one talk or a series, and how far Tom has to travel. Ask, and you get a straight number back.