"My parents were huge skiers, and we would always come out here for long trips," he recalls. wakeups."Īt Great Day Colorado, "I'll be working with a great team of people," he notes, including co-host Spencer Thomas, "and lot of clients of the station, and doing some weather and some lifestyle reporting, which is perfect for me, since I'm an outdoors guy."Īn affection for nature is a big reason that Tomer, an Ohio native, put down roots in Colorado. "I've been doing the morning shift for too long. Tomer explains the transition in the simplest terms. Starting January 3, he'll return as the co-host of Great Day Colorado, the advertorial offering that airs weekdays at 9 a.m., immediately following Daybreak. However, this potential market record comes with a big asterisk, since Tomer isn't actually cutting ties with Channel 2.
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The move makes Tomer the second local TV weather favorite to make a high-profile exit in two months, following Chris Spears, who recently split from CBS4 Denver to concentrate on running an Arvada shop he co-owns - and technically, he's the seventeenth on-air personality to leave the Fox31/Channel 2 news wing since early 2021.
Starting tomorrow, the prognostications will be delivered by Travis Michels. But today, November 3, is slated to be Tomer's last on the program. He’s a huge animal lover and has two dogs that keep him pretty busy: a boxer named Bella and a chocolate lab named Jackson.Meteorologist Chris Tomer is among the best weather forecasters in Denver, as he's proven for eighteen years on partner stations Fox31 and KWGN/Channel 2, including the past ten-plus as a regular on Daybreak, Channel 2's popular morning show. He is also interested in fitness and politics. Over the last few years, he’s been to several games "Between the Hedges" and he loves living in an area where college football is king.
In addition to weather, Brian is also a big sports fan – especially college sports. After Orlando, it was on to sister station KIRO for two years as weekday morning and noon meteorologist. While in Orlando, he was fortunate enough to realize one of his career dreams and had the opportunity to fill in a few times on the weekend editions of Good Morning America. After school, it was on to Fort Myers, FL, and WINK where he was weekday morning meteorologist for five years before serving as weekend evening meteorologist at WSB’s sister station WFTV in Orlando for two years. While in college, he got his start in television at WYOU and WBRE in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, PA. to watch the news – so it was only natural that he would combine two of his interests and make it a career! He considers himself truly fortunate to be one of those people who is doing what they wanted to do since they were a child.īrian’s interest in meteorology took him to Penn State University, where he earned both a bachelors and master’s degree. It’s fair to say he is a “weather nerd.” He also had an interest in television growing up – he was the rare 10-year-old kid who wanted to get up at 6 a.m. It’s a true passion of his and, whether at work or not, he finds himself always following it. In 2018, he again saw the impact a stalled tropical system can have as he covered Hurricane Florence in North Carolina.īrian grew up in southern New Jersey, near Philadelphia, and has been interested in weather all of his life. In 2017, he spent a week in Houston reporting on the historic flooding there as Harvey’s rains inundated that area. In 2016, it was the devastating tornado outbreak in late January that ripped across southwest Georgia and, in October, Hurricane Matthews razor thin pass off the central Florida coast as a major hurricane. In 2015, Brian covered the historic winter storms in the Boston area that dropped several feet of snow in a couple weeks crippling that region and having ripple effects all the way to metro Atlanta. His work with Channel 2 Action News has also taken him across the country reporting on storms that have left indelible marks on our memories. Over the last several years, he’s been a part of Severe Weather Team 2’s coverage of the biggest weather events to hit north Georgia. Having lived in the southeast for most of his career, he was excited to return to a region with some of the most dynamic and challenging weather to forecast in the country - ranging from severe weather outbreaks to winter storms to droughts. You can also see him on Channel 2 Action News at Noon.
In February 2019, he took over Channel 2 Action News This Morning when Meteorologist Karen Minton retired. Brian Monahan joined Channel 2 Action News in September 2014 as the weekend morning and noon meteorologist.
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