GREG DEMME
Meteorologist

I am thrilled to join KMOT-TV in Minot as Chief Meteorologist. I have already come to love this community since the Air Force brought me here in 2004 as a weather officer for Minot Air Force Base. Amazingly, the Air Force gave me my first taste of studying and forecasting the weather.

As a junior in high school, I spent a week at the Air Force Academy attending a week-long Summer Science Seminar, which included a weather seminar. Then, during my first two years at the University of Virginia, I discovered that meteorology was a fantastic combination of my interests and talents. I excelled in math and physics, and I had always loved staring at maps and cloud formations. And I had experienced plenty of nasty weather earlier on; growing up in Buffalo, NY, I had already lived through dozens of blizzards and tunneled under more feet of snow than I could remember.

After graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1992 with a B.A. degree in Math (throwing in a M.A. degree in Music Composition the next year for good measure), I spent three years at Penn St. University pursuing a M.S. degree in Meteorology at one of the finest institutions in the world for studying the weather. My best memory of that time is the six weeks I spent at sea aboard a small but sturdy research vessel to study processes in cloud formation. I always enjoyed watching the sunset at sea. However, a variety of other interests competed for my attention, so by the time I received my degree in 1996, I had left the field of meteorology for other pursuits.

However, less than one month after 9/11, I joined the Air Force, which brought me back into the field of weather. After earning my commission in late 2001, I began my first assignment as an Air Force weather officer at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, forecasting for dozens of locations across the western U.S., as well as for all of Central and South America.

Coming to Minot was a treat in many ways, including enjoying the benefits of living away from larger cities. But most of all, after 18 years of studying the weather, I would now get to forecast for the area I lived in!