Geoff has forecast for a wide range of weather events including severe weather outbreaks, flash floods, major winter storms, hurricanes and wildfire incidents. He served as the Aviation program leader in Albuquerque and continues his leadership of Aviation forecasting at Brownsville. Geoff’s additional duties in Albuquerque were maintaining a city wide rainfall network of over 60 volunteer observers. He is currently in the beginning stages of expanding a South Texas volunteer rainfall network in conjunction with Colorado State University.

Mr. Bogorad is happily married for 16 years, has 2 children, enjoys the great outdoors is an avid golfer and volunteers for the Rancho Viejo fire department.

Jesus Haro, Warning Coordination Meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Brownsville, has 17 years of severe weather forecasting and warning experience. He serves as the chief liaison between the Brownsville Weather Forecast Office and the emergency management and media communities in south Texas. He works closely with these interests in order to develop projects that enhance severe weather awareness with the public. Also, when the region is at danger of being affected by tropical cyclones or severe weather/flooding outbreaks, he works closely with emergency managers to keep elected officials fully informed of the risk at hand.

He began his NWS career in Phoenix, Arizona and eventual tours of duty took him through Reno, Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, and now Deep South Texas. Throughout his career, he has forecast and warned for devastating flash flood events and damaging monsoonal windstorms over the Desert Southwest, supercell thunderstorm outbreaks over Texas, heavy snow events in the Sierra Nevada, and tropical cyclones over the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic. He has also represented the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) internationally in support of research projects relating to the North American Monsoon.

Mr. Haro received a Bachelor of Science degree in Geography from Arizona State University in 1992, with an emphasis in Meteorology and Climatology. He has also completed graduate studies in Meteorology and Climatology at Arizona State University where he mentored under nationally-known Climatologist Randall Cerveny. Among the members of his graduate study committee was Dr. Robert Maddox, former Director of the National Severe Storms Laboratory.

His knowledge of severe weather has led to the publication of 17
internal studies with the National Weather Service, one of which was a NOAA Technical Memorandum completed in conjunction with Dr. Sydney Gauthreaux of Clemson University, and several of which were published in conference preprint compilations from the American Meteorological Society.

He currently specializes is raising public awareness about the dangers of tropical cyclones. He is a member of the National Hurricane Center and FEMA’s Hurricane Liaison Team, and was on duty at the National Hurricane Center in Miami prior to and during the landfall of Hurricane Katrina. During this tour of duty, he provided numerous briefings about Katrina to state, federal, and local officials. He is also a member of the Texas Coastal Advisory Team, which consults the State of Texas on matters relating to Tropical Cyclone hazard mitigation and preparedness. He regularly speaks to elected officials, emergency managers, and the general public about Hurricane safety and preparedness. Mr. Haro is also fluent in Spanish and uses this ability to better serve the public in south Texas and northern Mexico.