Geoff FoxGeoff Fox (born July 26, 1950)[1] is a former American television broadcast meteorologist, with seven Emmy awards, and a career in the industry spanning more than four decades. For just short of 27 years he worked at the television station WTNH in New Haven, Connecticut, where he started in 1984 and was senior weeknight meteorologist until 2011. Shortly after, Fox was hired by WTIC-TV in Hartford, Connecticut, where he was the weeknight 5:00 and 11:00 pm meteorologist, reported science and technology stories for the 4:00 pm newscast, and hosted a garden segment titled "Geoff's Garden" until November 2012. Fox, a New York City native, graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School.[2] He received a certificate in broadcast meteorology from Mississippi State University, and is a member of the National Weather Association. Fox holds a broadcast seal from the American Meteorological Society.[3] TelevisionIn May of 1984, Fox started his meteorology career with the television station WTNH in New Haven, Connecticut. He was promoted to senior meteorologist.[4] In 1995, in addition to working for WTNH, he began hosting the program Inside Space on Syfy (then called the SciFi Channel).[5] 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 weeknight 5:00 pm and 11:00 pm weather segments, as well as science reports weeknights at 4:00 pm.[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] In January 2015, he joined NBC affiliate KMIR-TV in Palm Springs, where he served as the on-air weeknight meteorologist from early 2015 until September 2015.[9] 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, though the agreement was just for the summer, 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] Fox now retired, is residing in Southern California after moving from the East Coast in mid-2013. Before retiring due to health concerns, his meteorology career had transitioned to becoming freelance and fully remote, serving as chief meteorologist on-air for Flood Communications, LLC, the independent parent company for News Channel Nebraska, also serving as independent meteorologist for newsy, Scripps News, and other independent television markets and side projects from his home-built studio weather center. Fox said, "With the set-up and technology in my home studio, I could 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] In September 2025, Fox posted via social media that doctors had discovered metastatic cancer nodules in multiple body parts, and that due to cachexia and Peripheral neuropathy in his legs that left him "too weak to stand" challenging mobility, and the heavy toll that previous rounds of treatment had exacted on his body, he had opted for palliative hospice care once it became necessary since he did not believe he could handle more treatment in his weakened state. He noted that he had been on palliative care for several years prior to the discovery and was in remission which is remarkable given the average 5-year survival rate for Pancreatic cancer is just 13% which he far surpassed. Fox said that the decision would allow him "to stay just drugged enough to avoid the worst. And a guarantee I can die at home."[12] References
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