Brian LaMarre is a trusted meteorologist and consultant who brings more than three decades of frontline leadership and operational weather experience to every engagement.

Brian’s career in the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) started in Connecticut and followed with federal meteorologist and leadership positions in Texas, Maryland and Florida. Brian also served as the NOAA Gulf Region Team Lead for the southern U.S. to expand collaboration and increase awareness and preparedness efforts across Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.

Brian’s career has been defined by helping communities, decision-makers, and partners turn complex weather data into clear, actionable guidance when it matters most.

Leadership Through High-Impact Weather and Organizational Innovation

As the long-time Field Office Director and Meteorologist-in-Charge of the NWS Weather Forecast Office in Tampa Bay, Brian led teams through hurricanes, tornado outbreaks, winter storms, flooding events, and high-impact coastal storms. He is known for combining technical expertise with effective communication strategies to enable decisions through analysis and scientific understanding of weather and climate patterns.

Brian has an exceptional ability to communicate risk in plain language to non-scientists and has been a regular on several local, national and international media affiliates as a subject matter expert before, during and after high-impact weather events. Elected officials, emergency managers, media partners, and community leaders routinely rely on his briefings to guide critical decisions that protect lives, property, and infrastructure.

"The best part of my consulting business is working with an amazing and talented group of people across the weather and climate enterprise and helping people make decisions that impact their lives and interests — nothing gets better than that!"